Monster: The Completely Useless and Undemocratic US Senate
Mother Jones illustration; Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. In the early hours of January 6, in that impossibly brief…
“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses”
A building in Hoyo de Puerco in August. The encampment was recently demolished.Pedro Farias-Nardi Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On a November day in a remote corner of the Dominican Republic, a line of trucks rolled across a vast sugarcane plantation and…
Hero: Fernanda the Tortoise, Whose Species Everyone Thought Was Extinct
Mother Jones illustration; Magdalena Kula Manchee/Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. There is, quite possibly, no organism as…
Monsters: The Idiots Defacing Our National Parks
Mother Jones illustration; Westwind Air Service/Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. The Narrows is one of the most…
The Mother of All Vaccines May Be Closer Than You Think
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In early 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to unfold, infectious disease researchers Matt Memoli and Luca Giurgea were already thinking about how the crisis might end. The two, both at the Laboratory of Infectious…
How Minnesota’s Foster Care System Reminds Native Moms of a Racist Legacy
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was published in partnership with The Fuller Project. Teresa Nord prefers the peacefulness of her new rural home hours outside of Minneapolis, but today she’s seated in a retro diner outfitted with plush booths and…