Biden Is Trying to Jettison Trump’s Cruel “Remain in Mexico” Policy. It’s Not Going to Be Easy.
A woman and her sons sit in a makeshift refugee camp for asylum seekers near the border in Ciudad Juarez Mexico in late October 2019. Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.President…
Joe Biden Just Signed an Executive Order to Start Undoing the Misery Wrought by Family Separation
A woman with her child crosses the Rio Bravo, Mexico, to reach the United States surrender to border patrol agents and request asylum, on May 19, 2019.David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that…
Elizabeth Warren Plans to Introduce Wealth Tax in the Senate
Rudy Torres/Avalon/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The wealth tax lives. On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass.) said her “first order of business” in the Senate would be to introduce legislation to follow through on…
How a Drive-Thru Manager Rescued a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.What’s so moving about this story—a Chick-fil-A worker volunteering to reroute a vaccination clinic’s long lines, shortening them by hours—isn’t just the collaboration. It’s not just the ingenuity. It’s what the…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals She Is a Survivor of Sexual Assault
Pool/Abaca/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a raw and emotional Instagram Live broadcast on Monday, revealed that she is a survivor of sexual assault and condemned Republicans pushing her to move on…
How a Legacy of Organizing Among Domestic Workers Helped Turn Georgia Blue
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.“You ever been here?” Yterenickia Bell asks me as we wait for the door to the Cascade Skating Rink to be unlocked. “It’s historic,” she says, ushering me out of the…