Senate Republicans Argue Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police Are to Blame for Gun Violence
Tim Evans/Zuma 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 day after a gunman opened fire inside a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to debate a series of proposals…
10 People Killed in Colorado Supermarket Mass Shooting
David Zalubowski/AP 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.Ten people, including one police officer, were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, Monday afternoon, according to police. One male suspect…
Heroes of the 2010s: Fearless, Fed-Up Students Who Called Out All the Bullshit
Armando Franca/Andrew Harnik/AP/Mother Jones The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Furious, funny, and fed up. True heroes of the decade: the students who spoke up, walked out, and shook us from paralysis and moral complacency. I’m talking, of course, about the recent youth movements—March For Our Lives…
Anti-Immigration White Supremacy Has Deep Roots in the Environmental Movement
Theodore Roosevelt stands with naturalist John Muir on Glacier Point, above Yosemite Valley.Bettmann/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The environmentalist, white nationalist, and influential anti-immigration activist John Tanton died less than three weeks before the El Paso shooting. Tanton lived to see…
Mass Shootings Are an American Epidemic. We Are Relentlessly Investigating the Culprits.
Mark Helenowski/John Locher/Mother Jones/AP When twin gun shootings rocked America earlier this month, killing 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Mother Jones did what Mother Jones does: We marshaled resources and flew a reporter to El Paso, and we connected breaking news trends to our extensive history of investigating this epidemic, the…
I’ve Heard Anti-Latino Racism for Years. But the El Paso Massacre Weaponized It.
Mother Jones illustration; Lola Gomez/Zuma Last week, while sweating through my clothes reporting in El Paso in the wake of the deadliest attack on Mexicans and Mexican Americans in recent US history, I got on my phone and noticed a disturbing but familiar conversation happening on Twitter. The subject was what it’s like to be Latinx…