Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening…
Medical Board Sanctions Celebrity Doctor for Letting Parents Opt Their Kids Out of Vaccines
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, California made it illegal for parents to opt out of vaccinating their kids because of their beliefs. But that didn’t stop some anti-vaccine zealots from dodging the shots: Last year, Mother Jones reported on a cottage industry of Golden State doctors who help…
A Searing Memoir Recalls How Syria’s Civil War Tore Apart Three Friends
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brothers of the Gun opens in 2011 at the eruption of Syria’s Arab Spring. Marwan Hisham and his close friends Nael and Tareq are chanting at their first protest against the dictator Bashar al-Assad in the streets of their hometown, Raqqa. Their faces are wrapped…
Remembering When the Ramones Were Young, Raw, and Couldn’t Take a Bad Photo
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danny Fields discovered and signed the Stooges and MC5. He worked with the Doors and rubbed elbows with the Velvet Underground. That famous John Lennon quote about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus? That was largely Danny’s doing, running Lennon’s quote in the teen magazine…
It Shouldn’t Have Taken Captain America and a Third-Grader to Make Me See White Privilege, But Here We Are
Chris Evans portrays Captain America in “Avengers: Infinity War”Marvel Studios Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every few weeks, Mark would come and visit me. This was six years ago. I was working as a program manager at an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Manhattan’s East Village. His parents both worked at…
How Sally Kohn’s “The Opposite of Hate” Became a Referendum on White Privilege
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On April 10, progressive political commentator Sally Kohn released her first book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity. I interviewed Kohn about what she learned from researching the origins and dynamics of hate, and particularly how she maintains…