Mother Jones - September/October 2020

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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.