Hundreds of Schools Are Using This Air Purifier to Fight COVID. A Lawsuit Says It Releases Toxic Chemicals.
Frederic J. Brown/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.Researchers have long known that the coronavirus is airborne, lingering in floating particles that spread whenever an infected person coughs, sneezes, or simply exhales. It’s the reason public…
Why Black Parents Aren’t Joining the Push to Reopen Schools
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 spring of 2020, with Maryland’s stay-at-home order lifted, a new ritual was born on a cul-de-sac in North Baltimore’s affluent Homeland neighborhood. A group of moms gathered on Friday…
Biden Takes the First Step Toward Undoing Betsy DeVos’ Title IX Rules
Biden speaks to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault in 2014Saul Loeb/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.President Joe Biden has taken the first step toward dismantling former Education Secretary Betsy…
Are Schools’ Fancy New Air-Scrubbing Devices Really Effective—and Safe?
picture alliance/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 months, we’ve known that the coronavirus spreads via airborne droplets, invisible molecules or globules of liquid that fall or hang suspended in the air whenever we exhale, talk,…
How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past
The historical marker to the 1898 Wilmington Coup.Matt Born/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.For Whitney Coonradt, a social studies teacher at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, the best description of her feelings…
DeVos Quit Over This Week’s Violence. Sexual Assault Survivor Activists Aren’t Having Any of It.
The Washington Post/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.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned from her Cabinet position on Thursday night, writing in a letter to President Donald Trump that the actions of the mob that overran…