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Heroes of 2020: The Women of Pop

Henry W. Laurisch/WIki;Eva Rinaldi/WIki; Kevin Winter/Getty; Mother Jones Illustration 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.In 2020, women ruled the pop charts. There were the big hitters: Taylor Swift, Kesha, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande. The overseas queens:…

Monsters of 2020: The Queen’s Gambit

Netflix; Mother Jones Illustration 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 protagonist of The Queen’s Gambit, the Netflix show about a child chess prodigy who ascends to the game’s greatest heights, is Beth Harmon. Harmon is what…

Monsters of 2020: Trump’s Fascist Fist Pump

Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP Photo 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.On October 5, President Donald Trump lumbered out of the doors of Walter Reed Medical Center, three days after he’d been checked in with a…