From Our Archives, an Incredible Cover
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 July 1979, this magazine ran a series of articles about the United States’ plans for a nuke war. As usual in a Mother Jones piece of the era, writers dove into…
Friday Cat Blogging – 4 December 2020
Isn’t this adorable? Needless to say, the licking only lasted a few moments, at which point Hopper sensed a change in mood and gave Hilbert a little swat. Then they passed each other on the fence and went their separate ways.
New Study Suggests Body Cams Save Lots of Black and Hispanic Lives
Here’s an interesting chart: This chart comes from a new paper by Taeho Kim of the University of Chicago, who investigated the rate of police-related homicides in cities that adopted body cams vs. those that didn’t. There are, of course, lots of things going on that could mess up these results, so Kim used an…
Indian Country Has Entered a Devastating New Phase of the Pandemic
Sharon Taylor of the Missisippi Band of Choctaw Indians is mourned by her three daughters and granddaughter in Tucker, MI on July 21, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis/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.When the first wave…
COVID-19 Is Now America’s Leading Cause of Death
An inmate from an El Paso prison loads a body onto a morgue trailer in November.Mario Tama/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.COVID-19 surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States…
The Change We Need: Stop Whining About Activists
Maxppp/ ZUMA; Ragan Clark/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.Barack Obama rankled “defund the police” activists this week when he said that “snappy slogans” like theirs turned voters off. Maybe it would be better, many of…