9/11: When Pop Culture Went Into Patriotic Overdrive
Toby Keith performs at the Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Los Angeles, May 2002.Kevin Winter/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Within weeks, maybe even days, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the entertainment industry mobilized to show that…
Behold 4/20, Which Means More Than You Think
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.Historically, 4/20 means one thing above all: observing, as one does, the anniversary of the first pasteurization test, named after Louis Pasteur, whose invention in 1862 improved food safety by eliminating…
A Growing Website Visualizes and Archives Every Music Genre in the World (or Tries To)
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 my colleague Maddie Oatman wrote in her interview with the musician Jake Blount back in December, “genres” are neatly parceled networks of marketability, a bit of code to construct artistic…
“The World Tried to Make Women Like You Wilt. You Didn’t”: How Maria Garcia—and a Whole Generation—Are Honoring Selena and Finding Themselves
“Anything for Selena” is about so much more than the career of Selena Quintanilla.Illustration by Iliana Galvez 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.Anything for Selena is more than a podcast about the iconic 1990s superstar Selena…
Yes, Sen. Tim Kaine Is Still Harmonica Dude
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) rocks out on the harmonica at a Senate Christmas event in 2020, with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on piano.Michael Brochstein/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.Tim Kaine, the Democratic senator from Virginia…
Pharoahe Monch’s “Fight” Takes a Torch to the Moving Targets of American History
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.On the morning after media outlets reported that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election, Pharoahe Monch tweeted a parting message to the dearly departing 45th president: “SIMON SAYS! GTF(OUT)!” The…