A Black Professor’s Colleague Called the Cops on Him. What the School Did Next Made it Much Worse.
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’s a habit of David Moore’s, dropping profound quotations into conversation—sometimes it’s the Bible; sometimes it’s the Dhammapada, a Buddhist text. On this particular day, he’s referencing Malcolm X. “Equality is…
New Podcast: Will Joe Biden Finally Fix America’s Crippling Student Debt Crisis?
Carolyn Kaster/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.Young people turned out in record numbers for the 2020 presidential election, and they overwhelmingly backed Joe Biden. Now, the hashtag #CancelStudentDebt has been trending on Twitter, as intense…
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.
Students wearing face masks as a preventive measure arrive on the first day of school at a Pennsylvania high school.Preston Ehrler/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.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom…
Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories
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 article is co-published with ProPublica Illinois, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. It’s a little before 6 a.m. and still dark when Garcia gets home from work this October…
A California Proposition Could Reinstate Affirmative Action. Why Are Some Asian Americans Against It?
Demonstrators hold slogans in front of a Boston federal courthouse in October 2018 when a lawsuit charging Harvard University of discriminating against Asian American applicants in admissions went to trial. Liu Jie/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Prop 16 in California would…
Decimals, Drama, and Hotel Transylvania: The Friday Before Halloween With One Fifth-Grader
10-year-old Zoe Oden on Zoom.Mother Jones Illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The first thing I notice when I log on is Ms. Washington’s purple witch hat. Just a few Zoom squares away, there’s a background of a spooky Halloween scene, complete with…