Heroes of 2020: Ed Yong and His Prescient, Terrifying, and Inspiring Coronavirus Writing
Urszula Sołtys/Harper Collins; Mother Jones Illustration 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.There was a point for all of us, somewhere near the beginning of the pandemic, where we said to ourselves, oh shit. One of my…
Monsters of 2020: Roger Ailes and Fred Trump
Starmax/Zuma; Scott Mc Kiernan/Zuma; Mother Jones Illustration 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.Imagine having the power to save tens of thousands of lives—maybe even more—with no more than a few simple gestures, and not doing so.…
Fatal Police Shootings Have Been Flat Over the Past Five Years
My Twitter feed has been full of arguments today about police shootings of suspects. I’m not sure why, but it’s as good a reason as any to go ahead and show how it’s changed over the past few years. Short answer: according to the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database, it hasn’t: It’s true that police…
Mitch McConnell Stalls Vote on $2,000 Stimulus Checks While Trump Tweets Furiously
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.Finally, something Trump and Democrats agree on: Americans deserve more than $600 in individual stimulus payments. Yesterday, the House passed a bill with bipartisan support to increase individual stimulus checks to…
The Nursing Home Aide Who Decided to Quit Rather Than Work While Sick with COVID
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.We asked people who quit in 2020 how and why they did it. You can read more about the project and find every story here. Got your own quitting tale? Send…
Protecting Domestic Violence Survivors From Eviction Is Always Important—but Especially During COVID
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