Is Biden’s Bipartisan Optimism Naive, or Exactly What the Country Needs?
Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/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 recent news about President-elect Joe Biden seems all business: cabinet appointments, pandemic plans, transition teams. But who is Joe Biden, the person? And what kind of president will…
“I Never Thought I’d Be Standing in One of Those Lines”: Stories From People Seeking Food Aid
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 the corner of her block in Queens, New York, Calli Carvajal, an out-of-work hair stylist, watched the line at a food pantry grow. This was back around March, at the…
Guest Farm Workers Died of COVID in Obscurity While Trump Planned to Freeze Their Wages
A Honduran migrant worker harvests apples in Aspers, Pennsylvania. August 15, 2019. Lance Cheung/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.Two fathers and their sons traveled from Mexico this spring to grow and harvest North Carolina’s sweet…
Monsters of 2020: The United States Senate
Mother Jones Illustration; Eleven Photographs/ Unsplash 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.As coronavirus infection rates are rising and the death toll is climbing to horrific heights every day, millions of people are facing eviction, hunger, poverty, and…
The Shockingly Long List of Corrupt Officials and Political Allies Pardoned by Trump
Patrick Semansky/AP 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.Versions of this story were published on April 13, 2020, July 10, 2020, and November 25, 2020. Donald Trump on Tuesday added another batch of names to the long…
The Stimulus Shows the Best Congress Has To Offer for Climate Change
The Problem Solvers Caucus hold a press conference on the stimulus bill.Rod Lamkey, CNP/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.Environmentalists are describing the year-end $900 billion stimulus bill just passed by Congress as the most ambitious climate…