The Last State With a Lifetime Voting Ban for People With Felony Records Just Reinstated Their Rights
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The erosion of voting rights across the country is a chilling fact of our moment, exacerbated by the pandemic and a president whose administration is doing all it can to weaken ballot access and throw fair elections into question. But there’s good…
Good News: Donald Trump Doesn’t Get to Decide if He Gets Ice Cream
Michael Ciaglo/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.To everyone working tirelessly around the world to hold together splintering democracies, I have a question: Why do people keep asking Donald Trump if he’ll “accept” the outcome of the election? I’m 46 years old and can’t remember any time…
On His 119th Birthday, Louis Armstrong’s Comments About the 1918 Pandemic Continue to Guide Us
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In his 1954 memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong paints a vivid portrait of the 1918 pandemic and the connective tissue of solidarity, resilience, and stamina that helped him survive it: A serious flu epidemic had hit New Orleans.…
It’s Possible to Drive Down Gun Violence Without Increasing Arrests
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Defunding police ideally means shifting more of a city’s budget to social services, and we’ve found yet another reason why that’s a good idea: Doing so helped drive down gun violence in Oakland, California, a city long known for high murder rates.…
Once Upon a Time, Presidents and Words Didn’t Fail
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If the grammatically grotesque tweets, bizarrely unhinged speeches, and wrecking-ball words of a certain president wear you down day after day, week after week, you might want to search your memory, and the news archives, for a time when the presidency was…
355 Days After He Was Detained, and Weeks After Recovering From COVID-19, a DACA Poster Child Is Released
Mother Jones illustration; courtesy of Sylvia Baldenegro For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday night, less than two weeks after I wrote about Carlos Martinez, a literal poster child for DACA who had spent the last 11 months at the Eloy Detention Center—where he lost DACA and fell…