Mother Jones - September/October 2020

In this issue

From policing to the presidency, our September+October issue tackles two of the most consequential topics in America, including investigations of properties run by the Trump Organization, and police unions that function as shields to accountability. Reporter Samantha Michaels tells the inside story of how so many violent officers escape discipline, in her feature “The Shield.” She also spent the last year reporting on an alternative policing program in Oakland, California, that attempts to increase social services and reduce officers’ use of force, in “Whose Streets?” Contributor Zach Everson paints a vivid portrait of Trump’s Washington, DC, hotel, formerly the Old Post Office, where cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted revenue. And reporter Russ Choma takes us behind the scenes of Trump’s Scottish golf resort in Choma’s feature “In the Rough” (illustrated by Jan Feindt), tracing how lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where the hundreds of millions of dollars came from that have poured into the struggling property.

The Shield

Police Unions are key to undestanding why so many violent officers escape discipline. Will this year's racial justice uprisings finally force reform?

10+ mins

Buy The Book

Lexipol says its policies keep police departments out of trouble. Critics say they left violent cops off the hook. Buy the book

6 mins

Whose Streets?

Oakland residents convinced the city to rethink how it tackled gun violence. Now, amid calls to defund the Police other cities are eyeing it's strategy.

10+ mins

Cold As Ice

Local Sheriffs Are Driving Trump's Deportation Agenda– And Terrifying Communities.

10+ mins

True West

The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.

10+ mins

Stay to Play

Trump cronies, lobbyists, and special interests have boosted the president’s DC hotel. This November, the election isn’t the only thing on the line.

10+ mins

In The Rough

Donald Trump has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his struggling Scottish golf resorts. Lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where that cash came from.

10+ mins

Underexposed

From lockdown to the uprising, “TrapLanta” was there, forcing viewers to look with new eyes on a world they thought they knew.

6 mins

REBEL FELL

Iconoclasm will rise again

3 mins

Let There Be Light

Is it a bright idea to use ultraviolet beams to kill the coronavirus?

4 mins

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