Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening…
“It’s Zero Hour to Act on Climate Change.” Teen Activists Call for Action in Global Marches.
Zero Hour Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fifteen months ago, thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Washington, DC, and other cities all over the world in a climate march that even included a group of 1,000 grandmothers and an appearance by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. That may not be an…
A Federal Judge Ruled that the Government Must Treat These Separated Migrant Kids for PTSD
U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2018.John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two immigrant children who were separated from their parents at the southern border have had their constitutional rights violated, a federal judge in…
No One Loves Donald Trump More Than Vladimir Putin
Hamburg, Germany, July 2017Mikhail Klimentyev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With his efforts to help Donald Trump become president by meddling in the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin has already done more to advance Russia’s foreign policy goals and worldview than anything he could have imagined in his wildest dreams as…
A Lawyer Met With 11 Separated Parents in One Day. What She Heard Is Terrifying.
Immigration attorney Ruby L. Powers standing at the entrance to the Port Isabel detention center where hundreds of separated parents are being held.Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ruby L. Powers’ most recent journey to the Port Isabel detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, began with an early-morning flight…
Donald Trump Asked, “What Do You Have to Lose?” This Illinois Town Found Out.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In April 2017, Demarion Duncan learned he’d have to move. That in itself would not be the end of the world; the McBride public housing project in Cairo, Illinois, where the 12-year-old Duncan lived with his mom, dad, and two younger siblings, was falling apart.…