Superheroes and Accountable Leaders Are in Short Supply. So 4 Kids Decided to Invent Them.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. As school closures sweep the world and affect more than 55 million US students, kids are finding creative ways to…
This Pipeline Cuts Across a Reservation. Wisconsin Might Make Tribal Members Felons for Protesting It.
Opponents of an aging oil pipeline that bisects the Straits of Mackinac plan to protest through the winter.Trevor Bach/The Washington Post This piece originally appeared in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For more than 60 years, one section of Enbridge’s elaborate network of pipelines carrying petroleum across Canada has taken…
Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
A large rectangle of red dirt on the flat expanse of West Texas’ Permian Basin reminds Sadrac Garcia every day of what his family has lost. A few months ago, he could stand on the small porch of his brother Juan’s double-wide and peer into the window of their parents’ trailer a few meters away.…
Facebook Says It’s Here to Help—But It Can’t Explain How
Niall Carson/PA Wire/ZUMA During a major address at Georgetown University on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg kept hammering the same point: connecting people (on Facebook) and elevating their voices is good for society. Compromising on this (on Facebook), he argued, would stifle their free speech, which would be bad for society. “Our mutual commitment to each other—that…
Fort Worth Police Officer Fatally Shoots Black Woman in Her Own Home
RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images The Fort Worth police department is scrambling to explain how and why an officer shot and killed a woman in her own home over the weekend. Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old black woman, was declared dead early Saturday morning. The police received an “open structure” call around 2:30 a.m. from a neighbor who was concerned…
How a Hospital Was Shamed Into Forgiving 6,500 People’s Unpaid Medical Bills
Carrie Barrett (left), a former defendant in a suit brought by a large hospital network, celebrates the cancellation of her mounting medical debt after an investigation by ProPublica and MLK50 Memphis.Andrea Morales for MLK50 Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up…