Biden Administration Revives Effort to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill
Mother Jones; Getty 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 Biden administration will resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced today. “It’s important that our notes…reflect the…
Rob Portman Is Retiring Because of Senate Dysfunction He Spent Years Supporting
Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman in March 2011.Bill Clark/Roll Call 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.Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) announced Monday that he won’t seek reelection in 2022. One reason he chose to retire, he…
America Is in Better Shape Than Everyone Seems to Think
It is rare for me to disagree with Ezra Klein quite so vigorously, but this is just wrong, wrong, wrong: Democrats mocked [Donald Trump’s] “I alone can fix it” message for its braggadocio and feared its authoritarianism, but they did not take seriously the deep soil in which it was rooted: The American system of…
Raw Data: Poverty in the US
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.Sometimes raw data can point you in two different directions at once. Take poverty, for example. CBPP has the details here, but the basic story is that over the past half…
Biden Reverses Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
Jabin Botsford/Washington Post/Getty 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.More than three years after Donald Trump tweeted into existence a ban against transgender service members, his successor has reversed it. On Monday morning, President Biden repealed the…
Small-Town America Grapples With Vaccine Logistics
Public health officials test for COVID-19 in Livingston, Montana, in December 2020.William Campbell/ Getty 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.This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One afternoon this…