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Teachers Across the Country Are Protesting Laws That Stop Them From Talking...
This weekend, teachers in more than 30 cities protested against new laws that would limit what they can say in the classroom about racism in the United States. The laws—in Texas, Idaho, Arkansas, Iowa,...
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The Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul
Click the highlighted text for more. One evening in April, Jennifer Sulkess, a 33-year-old filmmaker, was about to order a burger and watch a hockey game at home in New York when she received a...
View ArticleDarnella Frazier Filmed George Floyd’s Murder. The Minneapolis Police Just...
In March, Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed a Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd, became emotional as she testified about how the experience affected her. “When I look at George...
View ArticleBiden Said He’d Cut Incarceration in Half. So Far, the Federal Prison...
During his campaign, President Joe Biden pledged repeatedly to reduce the country’s prison population, which, because of racist policing and sentencing laws, is disproportionately composed of people of...
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Minneapolis Just Gave Some Coronavirus Relief Money to the Police
Ever since a police officer murdered George Floyd last year, Minneapolis has been the epicenter of a national debate about how much money police departments should get from city budgets. In recent...
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“Defund the Police” Was a Rallying Cry in 2020. Minneapolis Is About to Vote...
Midday on a May weekend in Minneapolis, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, a 29-year-old Black organizer running for City Council, stood outside a bungalow on the southeast side of the city. When a 75-year-old...
View ArticlePentagon Orders Airlines to Help Evacuate People Fleeing Afghanistan
The US government is ordering six commercial airlines to help evacuate tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced Sunday, about a week after the Taliban...
View ArticleAs Hurricane Ida Strands Thousands, the Police Would Rather Focus on...
As Hurricane Ida pummeled Louisiana on Sunday, blowing roofs off buildings and knocking out power to the entire city of New Orleans, hundreds of thousands of people were left stranded without...
View ArticleNew Poll Shows California Voters Want to Keep Gov. Gavin Newsom
With just a handful of days before voting closes in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom can probably breathe a little easier: The latest polling suggests he’s poised to easily beat the Republican-led effort...
View ArticleCalifornia to Become First State to Ban Nonconsensual Condom Removal—or...
California is on the cusp of becoming the first state to outlaw “stealthing,” the depressingly common practice of removing a condom during sex without verbal consent. Earlier this week, lawmakers sent...
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There’s a Phrase We Use About the Bosses at the Bureau of Prisons: “F Up,...
Getty I’m a teacher in a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. I started off as a correctional officer, but I wanted to do something that was gonna have a more lasting effect: When I see students get...
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I Worked at a Prison. My Boss Stalked Me to Prove I Wasn’t Injured.
LightFieldStudios/iStockphoto/Getty It started back in 2016 after I tore my peroneal tendon in my ankle on the gun range. The agency fought tooth and nail with the office of workers’ comp not to...
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A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look...
Joyce Faye Nelson-Crockett was 13 years old in 1955, dancing to a jukebox in the Hughes Cafe on a Saturday night in East Texas with her sister and her 16-year-old cousin, John Earl Reese. The boy had...
View ArticleWhat if Everything You Know About Murder Rates and Policing Is Wrong?
Homicides across the United States rose by an estimated 30 percent in 2020, the largest one-year increase on record, according to recently released data from the FBI. But don’t jump to conclusions...
View ArticleMinneapolis Votes to Keep Its Police Department
Nearly a year and a half after a white Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, voters in the city have decided not to replace their police department with a new public safety agency that...
View ArticleJudge Okays Racist Jury Selection in Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing
On Friday, opening arguments are set to begin in the trial for the three white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, while he was out on a jog in Georgia. The killing has been likened to a...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Impact of the NRA’s “Guns Everywhere” Law on Airport Security
A gunshot rang out at a security checkpoint on Saturday at Atlanta’s international airport, sending travelers into a panic and temporarily grounding flights the weekend before Thanksgiving. The weapon...
View ArticleBiden’s Turkey Pardon Reveals an Uncomfortable Truth
President Biden began the holiday season on Friday with the annual turkey pardon, a silly, decades-long ritual that almost always gets some media coverage ahead of Thanksgiving and gives the president...
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Donald Trump Jr. Promoted Giving a New AR-15 to Kyle Rittenhouse
Not long after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges on Friday, Donald Trump Jr. chimed in with support for the teenager, who shot and killed two people and wounded another in Kenosha,...
View ArticleMonster: The Myanmar Army That Murdered Civilians and Threatened My Friends
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. On February 1, families across Myanmar, already exhausted like...
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