Mother Jones - November/December 2021

In this issue

The climate crisis, racial injustice, immigrants’ rights, and corporate malfeasance are cornerstones of Mother Jones reporting and this issue has them all. Clive Thompson unpacks proposals to pull carbon out of the sky in “Suck It Up.” “Uprooted” by Lauren Markham highlights the researchers studying trees’ urgent migration to outrun climate catastrophe. In “Healing Requires Truth,” Samantha Michaels writes about Margaret Burnham, a Northeastern professor whose civil rights project reexamines hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders to help families move forward. Virginia’s Justice High School is the focus of “Distant Learning,” about immigrant students’ school struggles during the pandemic. And photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles documenting poverty in America. His epic work is showcased in “Geography Class” by Mark Murrmann.

Mainstreaming Militias

In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.

5 mins

Who You Gonna Call?

After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.

8 mins

Up Rooted

Forests have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.

10+ mins

Suck It Up

Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

10+ mins

Healing Requires Truth

A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.

10+ mins

Distant Learning

New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.

10+ mins

Sweet And Lowdown

The hidden suffering behind America’s sugar habit

10+ mins

Geography Class

Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”

5 mins

The Right Medicine

When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.

4 mins

Field of Trees

The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt

3 mins

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