South Carolina Is So Desperate for Executions That Firing Squads Have Become an Option
duncan1890/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.For 10 years, South Carolina was unable to execute anyone because the state couldn’t secure the drugs used in lethal injections. Initially undeterred, when the drug supply began running low,…
Montana Tribes Confront an Epidemic of Violence Against Indigenous Women
Violence against Indigenous people on tribal land by outsiders has proved difficult to prosecute. David Goldman/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 story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part…
The Wave of GOP Anti-Protest Bills Will Criminalize Protesters—and Sabotage Police Reform, Too
Jim Vondruska/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.In the wake of the widespread George Floyd protests last year, Republican lawmakers across the country flooded the zone with so-called anti-riot bills. Last month, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron…
Why Body Cameras Can Still Fail to Hold Police Accountable
Gerry Broome/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.On April 21, while attempting to serve a warrant, North Carolina police shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man in Elizabeth City. The entire incident was…
I’m Angry That I’m Grateful That My Brother Survived a Traffic Stop
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.I don’t recall the date, but I know it was before COVID and before the world knew the name George Floyd. I know that I was undisturbed…
Child Protective Services Investigates Half of all Black Children in California
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.For decades, researchers have pointed out that the child welfare system is riddled with inequities. Black children are far more likely than their white counterparts to be investigated…