Mother Jones’ Resident Gen Z’ers Take on Taylor Swift’s New Folk Pop Album
Emma McIntyre/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Six years ago Mother Jones staffers Ben Dreyfuss and James West hung around the office after everyone else had left, sipped cognac, and listened to Taylor Swift’s latest album, 1989. They published their immediate reactions to each of the tracks…
The Trump Files: Donald Tried to Make His Ghostwriter Pay for His Book Party
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files”—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president—on July 22, 2016. Donald Trump’s 1987 book, The Art…
I’m a New Dad Scared About Pandemic-Era Day Care Safety. There’s Only One Expert I Wanted to Call.
Rob Dobi For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.When my wife and I told our next-door neighbor last year that we were expecting a baby, she ran inside to lend us a copy of Emily Oster’s 2014 book, Expecting Better. (Earlier this year, we deduced that she was…
A Rare, Inflammatory Disease Is Sickening Children After COVID-19. An Overwhelming Proportion Is Black and Latinx Kids.
A child wears a protective face mask in Kips Bay in New York as the city enters Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus Noam Galai/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past several months, it’s become abundantly clear that Black…
Herman Cain’s Death Is Political. All Coronavirus Deaths Are.
Dennis Van Tine/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Herman Cain, the former presidential candidate and top Donald Trump surrogate as one of the leaders of the group Black Voices for Trump, died from coronavirus on Thursday. The 74-year-old former pizza mogul had been hospitalized for a month,…
Herman Cain’s Enduring Lobbying Triumph
Herman Cain, then-president of the National Restaurant Association, enjoys a plate of nachos at a restaurant in 1998. Michael S. Green/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Herman Cain, who died this week of COVID-19, lived quite a life: He was a fast-food magnate, a zealously anti–immigrant presidential candidate, a staunch…