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These Racist Collectibles Will Make Your Skin Crawl
WEBA 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 ...
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the …
WEBIn an analysis of Trump’s 2016 victory, political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck reached an identical conclusion: “He capitalized on an existing reservoir of ...
Today, Let Us Celebrate the “Four Seasons Total Landscaping ...
WEBNov 7, 2021 · Today, Let Us Celebrate the “Four Seasons Total Landscaping” Anniversary – Mother Jones. We’ve been offered a $50,000 digital matching gift by a generous board member, and to make sure we ...
Steve Bannon: Wellness Warrior? – Mother Jones
WEBMar 20, 2021 · Check out our most recent coverage of the coronavirus crisis, and subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Former Trump adviser and former Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon does not radiate ...
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would …
WEBOn 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 ...
When Did the US Start Calling Itself “America,” Anyway?
WEBJul 4, 2019 · It took an imperial war for the country to settle on a nickname. Daniel Immerwahr. Bio. Battle of Manila Bay, Philippines, May 1, 1898, the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War ...
A Brief History of the Disposable Diaper – Mother Jones
WEB1980: American babies wear 1.93 million tons of disposables, 1.4% of municipal waste. 1981: Disposables start using super-absorbent polymers; size reduced 50%. 1984: Cabbage Patch Kids appear on ...
Caught on Film: The Dark World of Truck Stop Sex Workers
WEBJul 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 ...
After a century of dispossession, Black farmers are fighting to get ...
WEBAs cotton output rose, prices fell, putting sharecroppers on a debt treadmill, enabling the Southern ruling class to continue extracting monumental wealth from the labor of Black people long after ...