Mother Jones - November/December 2020

In this issue

With the election fast approaching, our “Make It Stop” issue dives deep into this high-
stakes moment with Pema Levy’s feature “The Social Network,” highlighting an effective
campaign method that showed results even before the pandemic upended traditional
mobilization efforts. Adam Hochschild looks at the transformative movement to break
the cycle of punitive justice in “Break It Up,” and Edwin Rios goes inside the decades-
long effort to get police out of Oakland’s schools in “Cop Out.” Also on the school front,
Daniel C. Vock asks whether GreatSchools, the go-to source for information on local
schools, may be making segregation worse. And learn about the history of the Negro
Leagues; the photographers who unwillingly joined the Shot in the Eye Club; and the
reasons Susan Collins’ brand is growing old with seniors.

It Can Happen Here

Trump knows he can’t win without trashing the Constitution. And he may just get away with it.

7 mins

Building a Movement

Carroll Fife helped homeless moms take over an empty Oakland house. Now she’s trying to get inside a system she doesn’t trust.

8 mins

Exile on Maine Street

If Susan Collins is forced into retirement in November, you can thank Maine’s oldest voters.

6 mins

"Our Country is Full"

America’s asylum system was already broken. Then Donald Trump turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty.

10+ mins

The Social Network

The pandemic made traditional campaigning a thing of the past. And that may be for the best.

10+ mins

Raising Arizona

Latinx activists are closer than ever to flipping the state—if Democrats don’t take them for granted.

8 mins

Cop Out

How Black Oaklanders finally expelled the school police

10+ mins

Break It Up

The cycle of punitive justice begins in school. But a transformative movement is changing that, one hallway fight at a time.

10+ mins

Color by Numbers

GreatSchools has become the go-to source for information on local schools. Yet its ratings could be making neighborhood segregation worse.

10+ mins

Sacrifice Play

How the Negro Leagues were killed

8 mins

Basket of Disposables

Why is the Trump administration pushing restaurants to use more plastic?

3 mins

To Serve America

We can tackle hunger and joblessness at the same time.

3 mins

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