"Heroes and Monsters," a collection of what brought joy and discontent to our reporters, is one of my favorite traditions at Mother Jones. Apart from the opportunity to reflect on our past year, it contains flashes of an older internet, when writing for the hell of it was the whole point. It was fun, back then, even valued.
My colleagues have some gems this year, and I wholly encourage you to read them. You'll discover Ruthie, the legendary lesbian barber of Brooklyn. The sweet simplicity of Raffi. Charity music that's actually good. From my end, I've got three entries: two of them published and another forthcoming.
The one I'm loving today is from my colleague Dan Friedman about the unlikely heroics of Richard Nixon, the disgraced ex-president who, decades after his ignominious political end, proved to be right this whole time. In fact, as Dan writes, Nixon was never a crook at all! He simply was ahead of his time.
I love it. Not Nixon's innocence, of course. I mean the clever writing and historical flourish with which Dan approaches Trump's now-infamous immunity argument. They're exactly what makes "Heroes and Monsters" such a perfect little series. I hope you take some time to read and maybe even make some new friends—or enemies.
—Inae Oh
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