At Least One Thing Was Great About 2020: These Photobooks
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.When I sat down to write up my favorite books of the year, I realized, unexpectedly, a number of them are of work made in the past. Not re-published books, but…
Jake Blount’s “Spider Tales” Spins a Web of American History, Black Identity, and Banjo
Michelle Lotker 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.Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount likes to mess with his audiences: He’ll swap the pronouns in the lyrics of the old-time tunes he covers. He does it with…
I Am Sorry If This Post Is Filled WIth Typos
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.In the spring of 2013, a friend of mine fell off a balcony. She lived in San Francisco and at that moment I was sitting in my father’s basement in San…
Heroes of 2020: Everyone Who Quit Their Job
Getty; 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.Quitters, in the United States, don’t get the love they deserve. Stick it out in quiet desperation is the twenty-first century sutra. Quitters have to beat the odds.…
If 2021 Is Not Way Better Than 2020, We Should Fire Santa
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.Ho ho ho and merry Christmas (Eve)! Have you put out the milk and cookies for jolly ol’ Saint Nick? No, of course not. I’m glad you didn’t. You shouldn’t have.…
To Beat Anti-Vaccine Trolls, Sometimes You Have to Think Like One
Wren McDonald 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.Let’s do a little experiment. I’m going to tell you two stories, and at the end of this article, we’ll come back to them. Here’s the first story: Last…