These Racist Collectibles Will Make Your Skin Crawl
A ceramic figure from the 1950s Courtesy of David Pilgrim/PM Press. Pilgrim writes that historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. found this the most disturbing image in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist ...
Caught on Film: The Dark World of Truck Stop Sex Workers
Jul 13, 2013 · The sex workers play an elaborate game of tag with the security guards and police officers. The sex workers hide in a “safe truck” when the heat turns up. It’s kind of like base. In the ...
Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t. It’s never been more obvious that American democracy is fragile. And while the corporate media goes all in on horse-race journalism, we're digging ...
To Understand Kari Lake, You Have to Understand Local TV News
Nov 8, 2022 · Perhaps nowhere is the local-news politics more pronounced than in New York, where Rep. Lee Zeldin, another election-denying Republican, has mounted a surprisingly strong challenge to Democratic ...
It Came From the Basement – Mother Jones
Just like every city in America, the crime is out of control!”. Anger over public health measures provided a way to launder more extreme and racist positions—and to tap into his audience’s ...
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would …
On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor ...
The Rise of the American Oligarchy – Mother Jones
A bestselling book described Bannon’s former bosses, the Trumps, as American Oligarchs. Donald Trump Jr., for his part, complained that China controls “America’s oligarchs.”. A group of ...
US mass shootings, 1982–2024: Data from Mother Jones’ …
Apr 24, 2022 · The full data set from our in-depth investigation into mass shootings. Mark Follman. Gavin Aronsen. Deanna Pan. This database originally covered cases from 1982 to 2012 and has since been updated ...
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Mother Jones November + December 2024 Issue
It’s never been more obvious that American democracy is fragile. And while the corporate media goes all in on horse-race journalism, we're digging for what matters: the ties between right-wing ...