It’s Not the Other America. It’s Just America.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.We’re driving toward Porterville, California, when Matt Black explains his attempt to escape geography. Black is a photographer, and Central Valley towns like this have long been the setting of his work, the people in them his…
Work Is So Bad That People Are Quitting in Droves. We Should See That as a Good Thing.
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Twice in the last year, a Walmart employee has quit via intercom. Last month in Louisiana, Beth McGrath took to the speaker to announce “Beth from electronics” was going to “quit” because the company treats…
Why Are Successful Black Men Assumed to be Athletes or Entertainers?
Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan in May 2011Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During a trip to Las Vegas, I arranged to interview a wealthy source in his fancy hotel suite. At the resort in question (and probably at all…
How the White House’s Shift on Unemployment Insurance Could Undermine Its Own Economic Agenda
Leon Neal/Press Association via AP Images 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.A team of White House economics advisers had, ostensibly, convened a brain trust of left-leaning think tanks and policy experts on Monday evening to discuss…
How Inflation Became the Gasbags’ Favorite Moral Panic
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.Well into the 19th century, the word “inflation” referred mostly to bodily phenomena. It meant an enlargement of hot air in your stomach, a cancerous growth, a swollen organ, an imminent…
The Real Reason Women Aren’t Applying to Restaurant Jobs
Noam Galai/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.As the restaurant industry struggles to fill jobs cut early in the pandemic, some media outlets and politicians, like Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC), are pinning the labor shortage on…