HIV Is On the Loose In West Virginia, and so Is a Moral Panic About Needle Exchanges
Mother Jones illustration; Getty 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.It had all the trappings of a full-blown drug bust: confidential informants, undercover cops wearing wires, detectives surveilling the scene. In their report, police in Charleston, West…
Chicago Police Rolled Out a Cover-Up After Killing a 13-Year-Old Latino Boy
Antonio Perez/TNS/Zuma 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.Last Sunday, Elizabeth Toledo was relieved to see her 13-year-old son, Adam, walk in the door of their West Chicago home. She’d filed a missing-person report with police a…
The Myth of the Supernegro Comes to Derek Chauvin’s Defense
Eric Nelson, Derek Chauvin’s attorney.Court TV Pool/AP 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.“This was not an easy struggle,” said Eric Nelson, the attorney for the cop who killed George Floyd. In his opening statement Monday in…
Young Witnesses Give Heartbreaking Testimony at Derek Chauvin’s Murder Trial
A memorial for George Floyd near the site of his deathAlex Segura/EFE/Zuma 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.Darnella Frazier was 17 when she recorded a video of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George…
Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown
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.Last Tuesday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Forrest Liu, 27, spotted a blue sedan with four passengers idling at the curb outside a barbecue restaurant, where a woman in a red…
The Worst People Keep Stealing the Language of Black Struggle
Gabriele Holtermann/AP 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.Recently, one of the three Black Republicans serving in Congress, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) compared white supremacy to “woke” supremacy, using the term as a stand-in for a group…