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Lead Poisoning and Domestic Violence

Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Alex Tabarrok reviews Franklin Zimring’s When Police Kill and notes the following: A surprising finding: Crime is a young man’s game in the United States but being killed by a police officer is not. The main reason…

Another Look at Reopening Schools

It’s empty now, but it should it stay empty next year?Cindy Yamanaka/SCNG via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A friend emails about my post this morning calling for schools to reopen next year: You have been consistent in calling for opening at least elementary schools this…

The Democrats Have a New Climate Plan that Doesn’t Entirely Depend on Capitalism

Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I’ve written before about how climate change is President Donald Trump and Republican party’s greatest weakness in the 2020 race. But Democrats haven’t offered much in the way of an alternative—until now: On Tuesday, the 17-month-old House Select Committee…

Goldman Sachs: Mask Mandate Could Be Worth $1 Trillion

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, lowers his face mask as he prepares to testify before the Senate.Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Forbes reports on a new analysis from Goldman Sachs: Goldman’s analysts found that wearing…

A Customer Attacked a Barista for Asking Her to Wear a Mask. Bad Move: $32,000 in Tips Rolled In.

For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Like clockwork, a customer walked into a Starbucks without a mask and loudly refused the barista’s request that she wear one (on order of county officials). A more authoritarian overreach, the customer had never seen, so this principled, in-the-right customer—who was denied…