San Francisco’s First Black Female Mayor Defies the Liberal Litmus Test
Lorin Eleni Gill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. London Breed officially became San Francisco’s first black female mayor Wednesday, surviving a bruising election and over a week of uncertainty after the polls closed, when Mark Leno conceded the race. The victory makes Breed the latest in what can seem like a…
The Era of Mass Incarceration Isn’t Over. This New Report Shows Why.
IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since the US incarceration rate started to level off at the turn of the century, activists and criminal justice reform advocates have been hopeful that the era of mass incarceration may finally be over. Indeed, the number of people locked up in prisons across the…
Suicide Rates Are Up in Almost Every State, and Donald Trump’s Policies Are Not Going to Help
Mother Jones; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA; CDC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the back-to-back suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain renewed the national conversation over mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released numbers showing that America’s overall suicide rate has climbed by a whopping 30…
Chart of the Day: Blue-Collar Wages Are Down Under Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The monthly Real Earnings Report from the BLS came out today, which gave everyone an excuse to note that hourly wages for production and nonsupervisory workers are down compared to a year ago. They’re also down compared to January 2017. Sad. POSTSCRIPT: It’s legit to…
The New Southern Baptist President Wants to End Abuse in the Church While Sticking to Tradition
Mother Jones illustration; dwleindecker/Getty Images; Sean_Warren/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Southern Baptist Convention elected a new leader Tuesday in Dallas amid an unprecedented conversation about gender. J.D. Greear, the pastor at The Summit, a North Carolina-based Baptist megachurch, won 69 percent of the vote at the Baptists’ annual conference.…
Americans Are Starting to Like the Death Penalty Again
Chuck Berman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last two decades, public support for the death penalty has been on the decline. In 2016, the number of people in favor of capital punishment was 49 percent—the lowest it had been in more than 40 years. But a new Pew…