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The Heroes and Monsters of 2020

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.Below is our list of creatures and other things that ruined a ruinous year, and the ones that made it just a little more bearable. It is by no means exhaustive.…

Heroes of 2020: The Women of Pop

Henry W. Laurisch/WIki;Eva Rinaldi/WIki; Kevin Winter/Getty; Mother Jones Illustration 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 2020, women ruled the pop charts. There were the big hitters: Taylor Swift, Kesha, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande. The overseas queens:…

Monsters of 2020: The Queen’s Gambit

Netflix; Mother Jones Illustration 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.The protagonist of The Queen’s Gambit, the Netflix show about a child chess prodigy who ascends to the game’s greatest heights, is Beth Harmon. Harmon is what…

Monsters of 2020: Trump’s Fascist Fist Pump

Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP Photo 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 October 5, President Donald Trump lumbered out of the doors of Walter Reed Medical Center, three days after he’d been checked in with a…

Heroes of 2020: All Gas No Brakes

Mother Jones illustration; Youtube 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.“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” As an allegorical aphorism, it is almost never true. Enabled by social media, conspiracists, white supremacists, and general hoax types have garnered…

Hero and Monster of 2020: TikTok

Mother Jones illustration; Brands of the World 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.Earlier this month while washing dishes, my dad jokingly asked my mom, “Can you talk right now or are you doing ‘hot girl shit?’”…