Heroes of the 2010s: Kain Colter, Jock Revolutionary
John Mersits/Cal Sport Media/ZUMA The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. By June 2013, when I wrapped up my time at Northwestern, I knew Kain Colter as the school’s star quarterback, wide receiver, and team captain. He’d led the Wildcats to a Gator Bowl victory, the school’s first…
Heroes of the 2010s: Angelica From the Dunkin’ Donuts in West Haven, Connecticut
Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Let’s set the scene. It’s March 3, 2013. Angelica (she does not provide her last name) is working the drive-through window at a Dunkin’ Donuts in West Haven, Connecticut. At 11:06 p.m., according to the local NBC affiliate, a man…
The Three Lawyers Who’ve Purged Thousands of Voters
We’re looking back at some of our work from the past decade. This piece was originally published July 2017. Click the highlighted text below for updates, elaborations, and the story behind the story. Willie Miller was born in 1948 in Noxubee County, Mississippi, an agricultural community along the state’s eastern border named after a Choctaw…
Monsters of the 2010s: The Pivoters to Video
Chris Hughes (left) and Mark ZuckerbergJohn Green/San Mateo County Times/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. If there was one phrase that would summon dread in a newsroom in the 2010s it was “the pivot.” I lived through a sort of pivot: I was hired as a…
Monsters of the 2010s: Drake
Mother Jones illustration; Frazer Harrison/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Aubrey Graham is a person. “Drake” is a social phenomenon. He’s that dude who lives in sweatpants and Adidas slides, who ignores your texts for weeks then sends “Wyd” at 2 a.m. and you end up…