Monster: The Completely Useless and Undemocratic US Senate
Mother Jones illustration; Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. In the early hours of January 6, in that impossibly brief…
Hero: Fernanda the Tortoise, Whose Species Everyone Thought Was Extinct
Mother Jones illustration; Magdalena Kula Manchee/Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. There is, quite possibly, no organism as…
Monsters: The Idiots Defacing Our National Parks
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Monsters of 2020: The Queen’s Gambit
Netflix; Mother Jones Illustration 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.The protagonist of The Queen’s Gambit, the Netflix show about a child chess prodigy who ascends to the game’s greatest heights, is Beth Harmon. Harmon is what…
Heroes of 2020: Ed Yong and His Prescient, Terrifying, and Inspiring Coronavirus Writing
Urszula Sołtys/Harper Collins; Mother Jones Illustration 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.There was a point for all of us, somewhere near the beginning of the pandemic, where we said to ourselves, oh shit. One of my…
Heroes of 2020: My Cat—the Smartest, Best Cat. He Is Named Smarty Cat.
Mother Jones illustration; Jamilah King 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.Before 2020, here’s how I would’ve described my cat, Smarty Cat: “His paws have never touched pavement.” And it was true: Despite being a 12-year-old rescue,…