2+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1689+ words) Emily Tate Sullivan33 minutes ago In what is now Brynmor Early Education & Preschool in Lorton, Virginia, there are subtle reminders'like the large, cathedral-like windows'of the maximum-security prison that once operated.Judy Davis This story'was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit, independent news…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (130+ words) Lily Meyer4 minutes ago What makes a good children's book, and how much does it matter if a children's book is good? "Kids are weird! They're joyfully weird, and if you spend time with them and are able to get that…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1143+ words) To the families at Rayito de Sol, a bilingual and bicultural daycare, the scene was something else entirely: a show of force that shattered their sense of safety. In Chicago, federal agents enter Rayito de Sol Spanish language immersion preschool…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (955+ words) In the winter of 1996, a cadre of police officers met an airplane as it landed in Portland, Oregon. Santa Claus had come to town." It was the early years of what would come to be known as Santacon, and the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (670+ words) Genesis and her daughterMother Jones; Imago/Zuma; Courtesy of Genesis But Genesis says her manager wrote her up for sitting down and taking breaks. Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: "They basically told me you can…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (603+ words) Corporate media are caving. Trump is bringing the media to heel through government coercion and multibillion-dollar lawsuits. But Mother Jones won't be intimidated. Through September 30, your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar thanks to a $50,000 matching gift. That means twice the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1658+ words) Henry Carnell5 minutes ago Guyatt was also, until August, a reluctant icon of the movement against trans health care." His was by far the biggest name associated with the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a group known for casting doubt…...

6+ mon, 23+ hour ago   (86+ words) Sina Schuldt/dpa via ZUMA Press "I just couldn't believe it, that people would act like this," Dass says. "Like how they couldn't see'it's, like, you have no humanity if you're gonna take someone's baby." Walter has turned some of…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (469+ words) Tia GoinsCourtesy of PBS NewsHour In the fall of 2018, Tia Goins was a new mother in crisis, facing eviction, unable to find room in a shelter, and confronting the prospect of homelessness in a Detroit winter'with her three-month-old baby. "It…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1091+ words) In early March, a seven-year-old boy in immigration custody received good news: He would finally be released to his mother's care. Months earlier, he had been apprehended as an unaccompanied minor while crossing the US-Mexico border. Since then, he had…...