White House Goes on the Attack Against Anthony Fauci
Chip Somodevilla/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Whatever happened to Anthony Fauci? We don’t see much of him anymore. It turns out that President Trump got tired of Fauci’s pessimism about COVID-19 and has mostly sidelined him. In fact, it’s worse than that. When a Washington Post…
Surgeon General Explains His March Comments on Masks by Noting We Used to Give People Cocaine
One of the most maddening things about the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was the complete 180 on masks. In the critical early weeks of the crisis, the US Surgeon General and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention balked at telling the general public to wear face coverings, even as residents of…
Betsy DeVos Went on CNN and Was Asked About Reopening Schools. It Was a Disaster.
Yuri Gripas-POOL/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump spent a lot of the last week talking about re-opening public schools in the fall. As the Daily Beast reported, his campaign has done polling on the issue and found that it could be…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 11 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through July 11. This is going to be a bad month. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. The Public Health Agency of Sweden is here.
The Big Boy President Wore a Big Boy Mask And Now the Election Is Over, Aides Say
President Donald Trump wears a mask as he walks down the hallway during his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Saturday, July 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.“They said this day would never come”—Barack Obama once said…
These Photos of Kids Protesting Systemic Racism Will Give You Hope for the Future
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As protests against systemic racism swept through the boroughs of New York City earlier this summer, Brooklyn-based photographer Ximena Natera looked for a different perspective. She found it by going low, literally—focusing on the youngest voices trying to be heard at the marches. Using…