How Do We Make Art About Our New Solitude? Look to Charli XCX
Charli XCX live at O2 Academy Brixton, London UK on 31st October 2019RMV via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Charli XCX is going transparent. The pop guru announced this week that she’ll be writing, recording, and producing her next album, how i’m feeling now, with only the…
Here’s How Trump’s USDA Could Help Struggling Farmers and Hungry People in One Go
Breadlines in New York City circa February 1932.National Archives and Records Administration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.During the Great Depression, the United States encountered a food paradox: rampant unemployment left millions of people struggling to find enough to eat, even as low prices and overproduction led…
Lawmakers Worry Jared Kushner Is Working on a Privacy Destroying “Surveillance System”
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Jared Kushner has set himself a prominent role in the administration’s coronavirus response, there’s been a growing chorus of questions about what, exactly, he’s up to and how much the public will ever find out about…
Chicago’s Jail Is the Biggest Single Site of COVID-19 Infections. A Judge Denied Inmates’ Pleas for Release.
William, a 62-year-old inmate, sits on his bottom bunk and works a word puzzle inside the Cook County Jail’s Division 2 Dorm in 2014. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Outside Chicago’s Cook County Jail on Tuesday, as Andre Patrick protested, he could see men…
These Twin Sisters Are on the Front Lines Fighting the “Pandemic of Inequality” in New York City
Uché (left) and Oni BlackstockGary Gershoff/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Doctors Uché and Oni Blackstock have spent the majority of their professional lives as rarities. For starters, they’re Black women; only 2 percent of physicians identify as Black and female. They’re also fraternal twins. The story…
Trump’s Coronavirus Testing Chart Doesn’t Show the Success He Thinks It Does
President Donald Trump at a White House briefing on April 6.Chip Somodevilla/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.During his daily coronavirus task force briefing on April 6, President Trump tried to push back against reports that COVID-19 tests remain hard to get and that the United States…