Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: October 25 Update
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Payday Lenders Gave Trump Millions. Then He Helped Them Cash in on the Working Poor.
Mother Jones illustration; Bayne Stanley/ZUMA, Romeo Guzman/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This story was reported in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Puffin Foundation. Mike Hodges was still a small fry among payday lenders when Donald Trump visited Hodges’s hometown…
Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With it.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.You need a story. That’s what they say, anyway. You need sympathetic characters, a villain, some violence, maybe a dramatic escape. That’s what it takes to gain asylum in the United States. You need lots of other things,…
How About Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Jan. 1, 1930 – Civilian Conservation Corps Workers Reforesting Waste Land, Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Circa 1934.Glasshouse/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In 1933, with the…
A Radical New Plan for MeToo Turns Away From “Law and Order” Feminism
Jae C. Hong/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Not long after Brett Kavanaugh landed a lifetime gig on the Supreme Court, Mónica Ramírez started thinking about what it would take to make survivors of sexual violence into a political force to be reckoned…
America’s Immigration System Was Already Broken. Trump Made a Weapon Out of Its Shards.
Mother Jones illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.During Thursday night’s presidential debate, somewhere between lying about his administration’s response to the coronavirus and lying about Joe Biden’s houses, Donald Trump said a sort of true thing about immigration. Moderator Kristen Welker had…