LeBron James Just Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Fight Against Voter Suppression in Battleground Districts
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If King James’ crossovers and dunks on Donald Trump in tweets and press statements weren’t enough to mobilize voters, the NBA star has another move: He’s leading a group of top athletes to fight voter suppression in heavily Black districts before the…
If the RNC’s Lies and Outright Lunacy Were Insufferable Last Night, Take Pharoahe Monch’s Timeless Advice
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Odds are good that the parade of absurdities, fantasies, and bizarreness at the RNC last night didn’t excite you about the Trump-Pence ticket, as surrogate after surrogate studiously tried to rewrite history with soaring racism and flag-draped propaganda. You might be looking…
From Our Archives, an Interview With Ntozake Shange
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past few weeks, I have begun a long project of trying to read through the Mother Jones archive, piece by piece. You can too, here. (Well, sorry, you can read from January 1995 onward. Don’t fret, that’s plenty.) If you,…
Baseball, Bebop, Human Rights, and Freedom Movements in a New Short-Story Collection
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If you missed Michelle Obama’s powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention last night, catch it here. She vividly summed up “the story of America” by anchoring it in the lives of “all those folks who sacrificed and overcame so much.” “The…
Dorothea Lange’s Indelible Photos of Struggle and Survival Are Newly Archived Online
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The faces, places, and politics of Dorothea Lange’s photos during the Great Depression, Japanese American incarceration, Jim Crow, and other eras of inequality have echoes today, not just in the conditions she captured but in the strength of people she met. More…
A Galaxy Eerily Like Our Own Has Been Found 12 Billion Light-Years Away. Without a Single Trump Hotel.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, scientists shared telescope images of a galaxy so many light-years away, and similar enough to our own, that its discovery challenges prevailing theories of galaxy formation. The bombshell finding “represents a breakthrough” that…