How Did Republicans Become a Cult of Trump?
This guy does not mince words.Boris Roessler/DPA via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Bret Stephens writes today: We are in the midst of an unprecedented national catastrophe. The catastrophe is not the pandemic, or an economic depression, or killer cops, or looted cities, or racial inequities.…
Videos Show Cops Slashing Car Tires at Protests in Minneapolis
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.After long nights of tear gas and rubber bullets, some protesters, news crews, and medics in Minneapolis last weekend found themselves stranded: The tires of their cars had been slashed. In a city upended by protests about police brutality after the death…
How Many Cops Does New York City Need?
A small fight conversation broke out in my Twitter feed yesterday related to my post about the number of cops vs. violent crime rates. For example, in New York City violent crime has declined by nearly 80 percent from its peak in 1990: Crime had declined by a full third before Rudy Giuliani became mayor.…
Massive Crowds Protest Police Violence
Hundreds of people take part in a protest at the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2020. Rod Lamkey Jr./Sipa via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For more than a week, Americans have been in the streets to protest the murders…
Romney Claps Back at Trump’s Callousness Toward the Protests
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.After President Trump spent the week demeaning protesters demanding justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, former Republican presidential nominee and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney offered a tweet to suggest he disagrees with the president’s response. On…
Here’s Where the Movement to Defund Police Is Gaining Momentum
Matt York/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, resident after masked resident lined up outside a public hearing on the city’s budget. They waited, in some cases for hours, for their turn to share the same message with the city council: It was…