A Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.
Apache forager Twila Cassadore.Courtesy Gather 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.Early on in Gather, a new documentary about Native Americans searching for food sovereignty, we follow Nephi Craig on a tour of a former gas station…
Perdue and Loeffler’s Well-Timed Stock Trades Give Georgia Democrats an Opening
Sen. Kelly Loeffler stands in front of an image of her and Sen. David Perdue.Jessica McGowan/Getty Images 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.Sen. David Perdue has hit a tough string of headlines recently that are complicating…
These Researchers Have Developed an Inexpensive, Low-Tech COVID Vaccine
The Serum Institute of India, a drug producer working with AstraZeneca and Novavax to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccines.Subhash Sharma/Zuma 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.Earlier this month, the likelihood that the COVID-19 pandemic would actually end…
Trump Is Leaving the White House. Meanwhile, He’s Escalating His Execution Spree.
Brendan Smialowski/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.Last week, as President Donald Trump was mounting more meritless court challenges to the election he had clearly lost, Orlando Hall was executed at the federal prison in Terre…
Today Marked Yet Another Stock Market “Record” You Should Ignore
You might be as weary of this stuff as I am, but here is the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past five years: Basically nothing new has happened recently even if, technically, the Dow set yet another “record” today. If you draw a trendline through the end of 2019 and then extend it (dashed…
“In a Sentimental Mood” When You’re Not in a Sentimental Mood
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 most memorable description I’ve read of the Trump era’s time-warp effect and destabilizing impact was written in late 2016—before his presidency. The president-elect was doing a victory lap. The news…