These words from John Roberts should forever haunt him

View in browser   March 26, 2021 Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon, a Black woman, was arrested Thursday after she knocked on the door of Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's office in an attempt to witness Kemp sign a sweeping voter suppression bill into law. The new voter suppression package contains a wide range of provisions, many of which appear specifically aimed at suppressing Black votes and include a ban on non–poll workers distributing water to voters waiting in line, and restrictions on the use of absentee drop boxes.  Cannon was forcefully dragged out of the building and later charged with felony obstruction. Meanwhile, inside, Kemp signed the bill surrounded by an all-white audience, directly underneath a painting of a slave plantation. Let that sink in for you. —Inae Oh Advertisement   John Roberts Said “Things Have Changed Dramatically” in the South. Georgia Shows Why He’s Wrong. Voter suppression is not a thing of the past. BY ARI BERMAN   Georgia's new voter suppression law is hit with its first lawsuit BY INAE OH A Georgia state lawmaker was arrested while protesting a restrictive voting law BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG "I feel very sad because we are exposed to many dangers": Seeing a Mexican migrant camp through a child's eyes BY CÉSAR RODRÍGUEZ Why are we still doing these big tech hearings? BY ALI BRELAND Advertisement   Stop the COVID Shaming! AIDS taught us that shame can be deadly. The coronavirus pandemic can't repeat those same mistakes. BY MOLLY SCHWARTZ   Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. Donate SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE From Our Archives, an Interview With Novelist Larry McMurtry Each Friday, we bring you an article from our archives to propel you into the weekend. Today it was announced that Larry McMurtry, one of the great novelists of his time, died. He was 84. A writer of the American West, McMurtry is often remembered for his classic Lonesome Dove. It is, according to our reporter Tim Murphy, worth the read (however long). As Tim joked in recommending it today: “[melville dies] ‘read Moby Dick if you haven’t.'” But McMurtry wasn’t just a writer of cowboys and horses. His incisive novels became classic films, like The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment. I haven’t dug in, but I’ve also heard a few mentions of McMurtry’s work for the New York Review of Books. (My own experience with McMurtry is mainly through his son, James McMurtry, who has made some of my favorite albums of the last 20 years.) Michael Mechanic, a senior editor here—with a book out soon on the inner lives of the rich (order!)—interviewed McMurtry in 2014. Give it a read. I particularly liked this quick back and forth in which McMurtry swats down the annoying interpretations of Lonesome Dove he has seen: You felt that Lonesome Dove was misinterpreted, that you'd intended it as an anti-Western. In what sense? Would you like your menfolk to be that way? The Western myth is a heroic myth, and yet settling the West was not heroic. It ended with Custer; it was the end of the settlement narrative, which had been going on since 1620. —Jacob Rosenberg Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by forwarding it to a friend or sharing it on Facebook and Twitter. Donate Subscribe This message was sent to franchmaverickk.secretwords123@blogger.com. To change the messages you receive from us, you can edit your email preferences or unsubscribe from all mailings. For advertising opportunities see our online media kit. Were you forwarded this email? Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today. www.MotherJones.com PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755