Heroes of 2020: My Cat—the Smartest, Best Cat. He Is Named Smarty Cat.
Mother Jones illustration; Jamilah King 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.Before 2020, here’s how I would’ve described my cat, Smarty Cat: “His paws have never touched pavement.” And it was true: Despite being a 12-year-old rescue,…
Monsters of 2020: The United States Senate
Mother Jones Illustration; Eleven Photographs/ Unsplash 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.As coronavirus infection rates are rising and the death toll is climbing to horrific heights every day, millions of people are facing eviction, hunger, poverty, and…
Our 2020 Time Capsule Is Full of Stuff We Didn’t Know We Needed—Until We Needed It
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 March 2015, as part of the town’s 350th anniversary celebration, local officials in Smithtown, New York, opened up a time capsule that had been buried near the town hall 50…
The Books That Got Us Through 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. Nonfiction Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution and Its End, by Kevin Alexander. In restaurant lingo, to “burn the ice” is to melt down whatever remains of the kitchen’s…