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. Sonic in Albuquerque says “No one wants to work anymore.” pic.twitter.com/CR128n60mM — Patrick Hayes (@ABC15Patrick) April 14, 2021 Chances are you’ve seen that sign in the window of some restaurant or coffee shop in […]
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Monster: 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 the rest of us from a year of pandemic death and disaster, awoke to a whole new level of catastrophic hell that, even months later, […]
This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It.
This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. When COVID-19 started sweeping across America in the spring of 2020, Irene Bosch knew she was in a unique […]
Monster: The Completely Useless and Undemocratic US Senate
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 window between the Georgia special elections and the Capitol insurrection, a meme started to circulate about what this new Democratic reign in Washington […]
“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses.”
On a November day in a remote corner of the Dominican Republic, a line of trucks rolled across a vast sugarcane plantation and pulled up at a cluster of rickety shacks and barracks. The settlement, known to residents as Batey Hoyo de Puerco, or Pig Hole, was home to an estimated 230 Haitian cane cutters […]
Hero: Fernanda the Tortoise, Whose Species Everyone Thought Was Extinct
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 friendless as Fernanda the giant tortoise. Back in 2019, scientists spotted her on Fernandina Island, a volcanic, desolate landmass in the Galapagos. At the […]
Monsters: The Idiots Defacing Our National Parks
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 popular areas in Utah’s Zion National Park. Its1,000-foot walls soar above a thin flow of the Virgin River that serves as the only trail […]
The Mother of All Vaccines May Be Closer Than You Think
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 Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, recalled what happened following a coronavirus epidemic 17 years earlier, and […]
How Minnesota’s Foster Care System Reminds Native Moms of a Racist Legacy
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 vintage tables, one of her favorite places in the city. She quickly decides on a BLT salad with […]
The Youth Activists Who Wouldn’t Eat Until Congress Took On Voting Rights
After months of knocking on doors and conferencing with senators to advance the cause of voting rights reform, a group of young people from Arizona decided that the only way to ensure the future health of our democracy was to stop eating. On December 6, 20 members of Un-PAC, a nonpartisan advocacy group, launched a […]