COVID Spikes Aren’t About Demonstrations or Pool Parties, They’re About Trump’s Incompetence
Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Two distinct videos went viral over the Memorial Day weekend. One was of crowds of people partying and drinking at an Ozarks’ pool resort in Missouri. The other was of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing a Black man…
Trump Just Showed Us His Core Campaign Message: Chaos in the Streets
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Chaos in the streets. Looters running free. Rioters threatening you and your family. Anarchists destroying…everything. And there’s only one way to stop the end of civilization: reelect Donald J. Trump as president. That’s what Trump’s core campaign message is becoming.…
New Polls Show the Enormous, Self-Destructive Toll of Trump’s Protest Response
President Donald Trump poses with a bible outside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. Shawn Thew/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday, Priorities USA Action released a TV ad in swing states attacking President Donald Trump’s handling of both the…
Mississippi Is Finally Taking Real Steps to Change its Racist State Flag
Hundreds of protesters stand in silence for almost nine minutes in response to the recent death of George Floyd in police custody, Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Jackson, Miss.Rogelio V. Solis/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.There’s no doubt that the anti-racism protests sparked by George Floyd’s…
Trump Built a Fence Around the White House. Protesters Turned It Into a Canvas.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The 8-foot-tall fence around the White House has been creatively repurposed by the public as a wall of memorial to Black lives lost to police violence. Designed to keep protesters at bay, the fence has become a canvas of voices—a gallery of…
All the Monuments to Racism That Have Been Torched, Occupied, or Removed
A man walks past a toppled statue of Confederate Charles Linn in Birmingham, Alabama June 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Jay Reeves) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For all the handwringing over the “senseless” property destruction that has accompanied the past week of protest, a number of the damaged sites…