A Look Back at 2021 in Photos, If You Can Bear It
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Whatta year! Wooooo boy. Phew. Is it over yet? Here in the (very small, one-person) Mother Jones photo department, we naturally tend to think visually. As such, we rounded up a few dozen photos that stuck with…
Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Were Toppled Last Year. What Happened to Them?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It’s been a long time since I sat in an American history class, but what I remember of my education in Jacksonville, Florida, in the 1980s and ’90s is how much of it was not fact, but…
Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Renee Taylor was busy when I spoke with her. She was making 500 meals, following the day’s menu, “tamales, tacos, rice, pico,” accompanied by the background clamor of clattering metal serving trays. Following her release in 2013…
How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes
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 1963, Walter Gadsden, 15 years old, was attacked by a police dog during a protest on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. The moment was captured by Bill Hudson of the…
The Shot in the Eye Squad
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.It’s been a year since I was shot in the face with a tear gas canister. I remember hearing the shot. When I close my eyes I can still see the…
See Myanmar’s Crisis Through the Eyes of the Photographers Risking Their Lives to Bear Witness
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.Civilians first took to the streets in Myanmar three months ago, after the Tatmadaw, as the country’s armed forces are known, seized power from the democratically elected National League for Democracy…