Prince, Quincy Jones, Madonna: Looking Back at the Music of 1984
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.Just 14 days left in 2020. Speed things along with a round of recharges: 1. Michaelangelo Matos’ phenomenal new book is out. Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year…
Trump Has Sent 729 Tweets Since the Election. Not a Single One Was About the COVID Death Toll.
President Donald Trump on the golf course on November 26.Tasos Katopodis/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 Wednesday, as the United States hit new records for the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and…
So How Is Democracy Doing These Days?
Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post via 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.I don’t remember who made this point a few days ago, but it’s worth repeating: Every Republican who yelled and screamed about Donald Trump…
A Black Professor’s Colleague Called the Cops on Him. What the School Did Next Made it Much Worse.
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.It’s a habit of David Moore’s, dropping profound quotations into conversation—sometimes it’s the Bible; sometimes it’s the Dhammapada, a Buddhist text. On this particular day, he’s referencing Malcolm X. “Equality is…
National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism”
A person in a gas mask protests Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic policies at the Michigan State Capitol in May 2020Paul Sancya/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.In the waning days of his presidency, Donald Trump is…
“Voting Is Life or Death”: How Georgia Democrats Are Organizing in One of the Earliest COVID Hotspots
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/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.“People here lost a lot of people,” Amna Farooqi tells me, “and it was kind of like, shock after shock after shock.” The 26-year-old political organizer…