“AKA Jane Roe” Shows How the Abortion Fight Steamrolled the Real Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey in “AKA Jane Roe”FX For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Toward the end of the new documentary AKA Jane Roe, when Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade fame) makes a self-described “deathbed confession” that she never truly converted to Christianity—she was in it for the…
Big Freedia Is Making Party Music for People Who Can’t Party
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.It might seem like a weird moment to be releasing ass-shaking music. A worldwide pandemic has shut down the places where rump-wiggling typically thrives—bars, clubs, the darkened living-room floors of friends and friends of friends. If we can’t be together, we can…
“News Is Just Like Waste Management.”
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Weird things have become normal in the time of coronavirus. We bounce between utter panic, gallows humor, and some kind of bizarre normal in which the pandemic is political. At my house we spent spring break building a quarantine shack to protect…
Donald Trump Is Going to Hate SNL’s Season Finale
Even in an episode produced in isolation, Saturday Night Live’s season finale opener delivered. The cast joined a virtual commencement ceremony in which Donald Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, is the only speaker that was available to the class of high school seniors. “I asked you to vote today on who should be the keynote speaker,” Kate…
True Crime in Indian Country: “Yellow Bird” Belongs on Your Quarantine Reading List
Mother Jones illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Since Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country was published in late February, it’s been praised as a masterful work of true crime reporting. And it is. But it’s not just that. The…
This Moving Song by British Stage Stars Will Help You Keep Calm and (Sniff) Carry On
Two days ago, performers from London’s West End dropped a beautiful, aching, heartbreaking, performance of a World War II classic, “We’ll Meet Again.” Just take a moment and watch it. Then let me give you the back story while you are drying your eyes and blowing your nose and pretending it’s allergies while sharing this…