After the Capitol Insurrection, Telegram Moved to Ban White Nationalists. Today, It’s a Different Story.
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.For a moment last month, it looked like Telegram was finally doing something about its neo-Nazi problem. The secure messaging app, whose largely untraceable platform has laudably…
Trump’s Acquittal Has Paved the Way for More Political Violence
Senate Television/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.Last week, the Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump of the charge of inciting the insurrection on January 6 that left five people dead and more than…
How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past
The historical marker to the 1898 Wilmington Coup.Matt Born/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.For Whitney Coonradt, a social studies teacher at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, the best description of her feelings…
A Road Map for Getting Rid of Racist Cops
taka4332/iStock/Getty Images Plus 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.It’s hard to forget the image: Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker, two off-duty Virginia police officers, pose for a selfie in the US Capitol, one of them raising…
Roger Stone Did Something Wrong
Roger Stone rides in a golf cart with a man wearing an Oath Keepers hat after outside of the Supreme Court on Jan. 5, 2021.Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press 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.Roger…
We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It.
People stand under the new North Carolina highway historical marker to the 1898 Wilmington Coup during a dedication ceremony in Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 8, 2019. Matt Born/The Star-News/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.The parallels…