It’s Fat Bear Week and America’s Most Body Positive Contest Is About to Declare a Winner
A brown bear in Katmai National Park, in southern Alaska./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 the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Deep into a tumultuous and often harrowing year, it will…
An Unlikely Ray of Hope: Imagining a Future Where COVID-23 Changes Us for the Better
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.“You can’t be what you can’t see”: This proverb often comes up in discussions of why representation matters. A young girl of color, for instance, might be less likely to believe she’s able to become a successful actor or politician…
Watch Trump Emerge from the White House and Fly to Hospital After Testing Positive
Sarah Silbiger/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.President Donald Trump was airlifted to Washington D.C.’s Walter Reed Military Medical Center Friday evening on Marine One after announcing he was sick with COVID-19 just hours earlier. The president’s hospitalization marked an…
“It Affects Virtually Nobody”: The Three Weeks of Denial Leading Up To Trump’s Diagnosis
President Donald Trump leaves the White House to go to Walter Reed Military Medical Center on October 2.Saul Loeb/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Even by the warped standards of the Trump era, the past few weeks have been an unusually exhausting blur,…
17 Republicans Just Voted Against a Resolution to Condemn QAnon. We Asked Them All Why.
Stephanie Keith/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Seventeen Republicans and an independent libertarian voted on Friday against a resolution to condemn QAnon—the outlandish conspiracy theory that claims a cabal of liberal elite pedophiles is running a child sex trafficking ring and is locked in a battle with…
The CDC Put a Halt to Evictions. One Missouri County Is Allowing Them Anyway.
A pro eviction moratorium demonstrator.Joe Cavaretta/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established a national moratorium on evictions until the end of the year, as a way to protect tenants who have been hit by…