Monsters of the 2010s: NFL Owners
MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. The National Football League spent the first half of the 2010s covering up a cover-up. The league knew that its on-field product was giving its own employees brain damage, but as the New York Times reported in 2016,…
Monsters of the 2010s: Your Landlord
Mother Jones illustration; Heritage Images/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Landlords. Where do you start? Do you start with the property company evicting two unhoused mothers and their kids for moving into a home that the “distressed” housing brokers preferred empty, for getting in the way…
Heroes of the 2010s: Fearless, Fed-Up Students Who Called Out All the Bullshit
Armando Franca/Andrew Harnik/AP/Mother Jones The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Furious, funny, and fed up. True heroes of the decade: the students who spoke up, walked out, and shook us from paralysis and moral complacency. I’m talking, of course, about the recent youth movements—March For Our Lives…
Heroes of the 2010s: Wikipedia
Mother Jones illustration; NurPhoto/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Late at night, I read about obscure mob figures. When federal agents busted a bunch of Gambino associates a while back and announced a few had been spotted visiting an imprisoned Mafioso named Frank Locascio, I researched…
The Award for Best New Species of 2019: A Tiny Primate That Looks Like Baby Yoda
Friends, we’ve found it. The most adorable—and therefore the best—new species of the year. It’s got bulging eyes, slender toes, and a tail twice the length of its minuscule body. If a chinchilla and a Furby had a baby, this is what it’d look like. But perhaps most importantly, the species bears a striking resemblance…
Heroes of the 2010s: Lenny Kravitz’s Giant Scarf
Mother Jones Illustration The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Before Americans bastardized the Danish coziness lifestyle trend called hygge, before HBO revolutionized winter wear with a hit series about media ownership and turtlenecks (mostly turtlenecks), before Baby Yoda sipped tea in a sheepskin cloak, there was Lenny…