Mother Jones – July-August 2019

WHEN YOU DISASTER UNFOLDING CAN SEE AND NOBODY LISTENS, WHAT HAPPENS? ...

20 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 WEIGHT OF THE WORLD In a row house made of cinder blocks on the tiny island in the middle ...

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WEIGHT OF THE WORLD to function in a world that does not comprehend what is coming and, worse, largely ignores the warnings of t ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 23 Jacquelyn Gill, a paleontologist at the University of Maine who co-hosts a podcast on clima ...

24 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 WEIGHT OF THE WORLD to an audience of young people about the “denial industry,” and how it ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 25 “more therapeutic than a therapy ses- sion,” she talks about climate change to people who a ...

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    morning, Eric Holder strode into a brick union hall on the west side of Milwaukee, across from a credit union ...

28 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 MAP QUEST Merrill Park and on races like the one he was there to talk about, a state Supre ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 29 National Committee Chair Ed Gillespie and advised by strategists like Karl Rove. “He who co ...

MAP QUEST ALYSSA SCHUKAR and used his email list and social media profile to draw attention to the fight against gerrymandering. ...

31 ismatic by the standards of a career lawyer, but no one would mistake him for Obama on the stump, though they do share a love ...

PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIAN WERNER ILLUSTRATIONS BY OWEN FREEMAN Behind the Lines PART TWO OF A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION A firsthand l ...

Read the entire series at motherjones.com/syria. A firsthand look at the compromises and costs of American involvement in Syria ...

BEHIND THE LINES behind the fence of a refugee camp in the green plains of northeastern Syria, a white woman ap- proaches from t ...

JULY  AUGUST 2019  MOTHER JONES 35 her to gather her things. The family got into a white van. Samantha says she soon realized ...

36 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES would try to make the family happy, bringing home a cat and taking them t ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 37 driving trucks. But he does remember exorcising an apartment by burning a CD case with a pi ...

38 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES cocaine, and liked action. On one binge, he wrecked a Dodge Viper. “Mouss ...