The Coffee Shop Manager Who Quit With Her Entire Staff
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. We’re asking people who quit in 2020 why and how they did it. You can read more about the project, and all the stories, here. Got your own quitting tale? Send…
Banjo Player Jake Blount Challenges Genres and Questions Historical Narratives in “Spider Tales”
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.For nearly a century, the musicians playing and promoting old-time string band and bluegrass music have tended to be white. That’s not merely a cultural trend, explains Jake Blount, a Black…
At Least One Thing Was Great About 2020: These Photobooks
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.When I sat down to write up my favorite books of the year, I realized, unexpectedly, a number of them are of work made in the past. Not re-published books, but…
Jake Blount’s “Spider Tales” Spins a Web of American History, Black Identity, and Banjo
Michelle Lotker 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.Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount likes to mess with his audiences: He’ll swap the pronouns in the lyrics of the old-time tunes he covers. He does it with…
Monsters of 2020: The People Who Gutted Minor League Baseball
Nathan Shively/Unsplash; 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.A few years back, I was at a minor league baseball game in Geneva, Illinois, watching the Kane County Cougars play the mighty Burlington Bees, when…
Trump, Finally, Signs the COVID Relief Bill
Al Drago/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.On Sunday night, President Donald Trump finally signed the COVID relief bill. As outlined by my colleague Hannah Levintova, the bill extends unemployment benefits, averts a government shutdown, and…