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I Think We’re Being Lied to About DEI

“DEI is dead.” At least that’s what the headlines scream. I spent the last few weeks reading the public statements, leaked internal memos, and...

Garrison Hayes

A day after winning an NAACP Image Award, one of MSNBC’s highest rated shows is done. The cancellation of Joy Reid’s primetime show, The ReidOut,...

Mother Jones illustration; Getty What changes if more people showed up to vote? One answer emerges by comparing Minnesota and Tennessee—two states...

Paul Sancya/AP Genuine question: Do influential white people routinely tell members of the white community to not vote? Every four years, it seems...

Every four years, the presidential election brings with it a perennial question about an essential voting bloc: Who will Black voters turn out...

Mother Jones illustration Rep. Maxwell Frost is the youngest US congressman—and every headline and article about him (including ours!) never fails...

Mother Jones illustration Just a few (long) weeks ago, President Joe Biden was still running for re-election, grappling with persistently negative...