Roxane Gay Says Cancel Culture Does Not Exist
MasterClass 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.Roxane Gay is one of the most prolific and versatile writers of our generation. Her works include a best-selling collections of essays (Bad Feminist), a blockbuster memoir (Hunger), the Black…
“Eliminate the Barriers”: How the Vaccine Rollout Is Failing Communities of Color
A patient at the Lebanon VA Medical Center receives a COVID-19 vaccine.Doug Wagner/Veterans Administrat/Planet Pix/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.This is a week of good news and not-so-good news as we approach the one year…
Can Joe Biden Fulfill His Promise to Diversify the State Department?
Saul Loeb/AFP 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.Days before Anthony Blinken was confirmed as Joe Biden’s secretary of State, his spokesperson told me that diversity, “at all levels, including senior leadership” would be a priority for the new…
Hey Siri—Why Don’t You Understand More People Like Me?
Timo Lenzen 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.Every evening last summer, after I’d shut down my work laptop, my 3-year-old daughter and I would approach our Google Home smart speaker and yell, “Hey Google, can you…
This Agency Could Push Banks to Fight Inequality—and Biden Has to Decide Who Should Run It
Mother Jones illustration; University of Michigan; Wikimedia 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.Two years after the 2008 financial crisis, a government commission began releasing their findings on the causes of the worst economic downturn in nearly…
Georgia Republicans Are Doubling Down on Racist Voter Suppression
Georgia Rep. Barry Fleming next to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2019Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/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.After Donald Trump failed to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, Republicans in the state’s legislature are…