“I’ll Be Fierce for All of Us”: Deb Haaland on Climate, Native Rights and Joe Biden
Former U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (Democrat of New Mexico) listens at House Hearing on the 2020 Census in Washington D.C., U.S., on Thursday, January 9, 2020. Stefani Reynolds/CNP via 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.This…
After an Astronomical Rise in COVID Cases, Wyoming Has Stopped Contact Tracing
A Health Care Worker seals a coronavirus swab after testing at the Pro Health Urgent Care coronavirus testing site on April 30, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. Al Bello/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.This story…
Indian Country Has Entered a Devastating New Phase of the Pandemic
Sharon Taylor of the Missisippi Band of Choctaw Indians is mourned by her three daughters and granddaughter in Tucker, MI on July 21, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis/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.When the first wave…
A Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.
Apache forager Twila Cassadore.Courtesy Gather 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.Early on in Gather, a new documentary about Native Americans searching for food sovereignty, we follow Nephi Craig on a tour of a former gas station…
Indigenous Democrats Helped Flip Arizona, No Thanks to Party Leaders
The daughter of a Northeast Arizona Native Democrats field organizer holds a campaign sign during voter outreach efforts on the Navajo Nation. Braden Nez 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 early March, Jaynie Parrish was living…
There’s a 350-Foot Statue of Columbus in Puerto Rico. Indigenous People Want It Gone.
A month after George Floyd’s death, solidarity protests in San Juan, Puerto Rico targeted colonial statues and place names.Ira L. Black-Corbis/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.If all the sculptures in North America got together for a party, only one would stand taller…