While DC Keeps Debating a $15 Minimum Wage, Fast-Food Workers Are Striking for It Now
Scott Olson/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.On Tuesday, fast-food workers in 15 cities across the United States went on strike to put pressure on Congress for a $15 minimum wage. Workers from Durham to Chicago…
Not Everyone Was Surprised by the Attack on the Capitol
Rev. William Barber II at an interfaith service in 2020.Amy Katz/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.The January 6 attack on the Capitol was, for many Americans, an unthinkable and shocking attack on democracy. For the…
Biden’s White House Is Ready to Tackle Gun Violence. Black-Led Groups Hope They Won’t Be Excluded.
Joe Biden at an Everytown for Gun Safety “Presidential Gun Sense” forum in 2019Jason Bergman/Sipa USA/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.In a week when Congress debated the second impeachment of a former president, and the…
The Pandemic Has Unmasked America’s Deepest Inequities
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 doesn’t discriminate, but the havoc wrought by the virus—the deaths, economic devastation, and intergenerational trauma—has disproportionately affected Black, Latino, and Native American communities. The Trump administration’s feckless response didn’t help,…
A Racist Policy Keeps Restaurant Workers in Poverty. Will Biden End It?
Noam Galai/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.For many restaurant workers, the trade off for hours of grueling work serving food and dealing with demoralizing customers, not to mention the threat of stray COVID-19 germs…
The Vice President Still Hasn’t Shaken Off #KamalaIsACop
Mother Jones illustration; 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.Kamala Harris had certainly practiced for this moment. It was September 2019, and she was in the middle of a bruising primary for the Democratic nomination for…