House Dems Demand Abuse of Power Investigation After Federal Agents Storm Portland
Alex Milan Tracy/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.House Democrats are demanding that the inspectors general of the Justice and Homeland Security departments open an immediate investigation into whether the Trump administration’s use of federal law enforcement agents to invade Portland, Oregon, constitutes an abuse of emergency…
Trump Plans to Expand Federal Invasion of American Cities
Donald Trump displays an executive order on “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence,” on Friday, June 26.Tia Dufour/White House/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump plans to assert new authority this week to dispatch federal law enforcement agents to…
The Border Patrol May Be Coming to Your Town
Federal officers in Portland, Oregon after clearing the streets with tear gas and other crowd control munitions, on July 18, 2020.Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa via AP Images) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump administration says the Department of Homeland Security can occupy downtown Portland, tear gas protesters,…
Defend History. Tear Down the Confederate Statues.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. After the Civil War, Edward Virginius Valentine returned from Europe to his hometown of Richmond, Virginia—the former Confederate capital—and began using his training in classical sculpture to enshrine the myth of the Lost Cause. Over the next few decades Valentine made…
Weeks Later, 500 People Still Face Charges for Peacefully Protesting in Minneapolis
Hundreds of peaceful protesters face charges in Minneapolis.Julia Lurie/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Six days after George Floyd’s death, Ahmed Abebe and some friends joined a protest marching towards Interstate 35W in Minneapolis. “I’ve been a resident of Minnesota my whole life. I’m a black…
How Steve Reich Made Music Out of White Complicity
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In the spring of 1964, the New York Times reported that six young Black men were indicted for the murder of a shopkeeper. The article is short on context, clipped, half-said. Two years later, James Baldwin, in his essay “A Report From Occupied Territory,”…