Despite All the Fake Meat, Americans Are Still Gobbling Up the Real Stuff
Alex Potemkin/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.These days, you can find faux beef at just about any national fast-food chain and supermarket meat case. Already wildly hyped in 2019, tech-backed burger analogues got a boost from…
Remembering Robert Hershon, Poet of the “Mimeo Revolution”
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.The New York Times has a touching obituary of the New York poet Robert Hershon, who died this week at 84. Across a 50-odd-year career, Hershon and his collaborators at the…
A New Online Film Festival Seeks Solutions to Injustice Globally
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.An ambitious new series, Solutions Cinema, is off to a strong start. The monthlong festival searches for action and accountability around entrenched injustices through a slate of interactive films. Instead of…
361 Voter Suppression Bills Have Already Been Introduced This Year
Demonstrators hold signs as they protest voter suppression bill outside of the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta on March 1, 2021. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via 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.Fueled by Trump’s big…
Oil-Exporting Nations Warned to Diversify Industries—or Face Civil Unrest
Oil workers in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2004. Karim Sahib/AFB via 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 was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil-dependent countries that are…
The Myth of the Supernegro Comes to Derek Chauvin’s Defense
Eric Nelson, Derek Chauvin’s attorney.Court TV Pool/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.“This was not an easy struggle,” said Eric Nelson, the attorney for the cop who killed George Floyd. In his opening statement Monday in…