Republicans Hoped a “Crime Wave” Was Their Ticket to a Red Wave. It Wasn’t.
Mother Jones illustration; Maria Lysenko/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Leading up to the election, Republicans relentlessly blasted voters with campaign ads about crime, offering them brutal images of shootings and assaults and suggesting that if progressives got their way, murderers would run rampant…
Pay Attention to These Insanely Important District Attorney Races
Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP; Mario Tama/Getty; Haven Daley/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If you care about police accountability, abortion rights, or racial justice, you should be paying attention to district attorney races this election season. As chief prosecutors in their counties, DAs…
The Right-Wing Attack on Public Education Began in One Elite Illinois High School
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One day leading up to winter break, administrators of the predominantly white New Trier Township High School in the wealthy northern Chicago suburbs announced that “Understanding Today’s Struggle for Racial Civil Rights” would be the theme for a school-wide…
If You Watch One Thing Today, Make It This Video Of a Police Award Recipient Calling Out the Cops
The St. Paul Police Department held an award ceremony this week to honor Alex Mingus, a Minnesota resident who performed “an act of gallantry and valor” in response to a shooting. But upon accepting the award, Mingus called out the lack of police action on the scene. On October 8, 2021, Mingus was on his…
How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In August 1944, just two months after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (a.k.a. the GI Bill of Rights), Harry McAlpin, Washington correspondent for the National Negro Publishers Association, warned that the new law, though race-neutral…
California Leaders Want to Compensate Descendants of Slavery. How Much Are They Willing to Pay?
The Reparations Task Force has yet to answer some of the most difficult and essential questions on what California owes to descendants of slavery.Carolyn Cole/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This past weekend, activists, economists, politicians, and members of the public packed a room…