Indigenous Communities in Brazil Were Already Under Siege. Then Came COVID-19.
Yanomami indigenous people receiving medical attention.Andressa Anholete/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Canada’s National Observer and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Take a country where Indigenous leaders are killed for defending their lives and lands, where constitutionally protected…
Mueller Breaks His Silence: Roger Stone “Lied Repeatedly”
Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on July 24, 2019.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Breaking a year of public silence, special counsel Robert Mueller defended his investigation in an op-ed published Saturday in the Washington Post. Mueller’s piece ran a day after President…
Trump Allegedly Suggested Selling Puerto Rico as Hurricane Maria Approached
President Donald Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd at Calvary Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico in October 2017. AP Photo/Evan Vucci For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Donald Trump’s initial reaction to the devastating hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico in 2017 were to suggest that the United…
Disney World Opens Even as Coronavirus Numbers Balloon
Guests enter the Magic Kingdom during the reopening at Walt Disney World Saturday, July 11, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. AP Photo/John Raoux For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The United States had a record-setting coronavirus week: On Friday, there were 68,000 new cases, the seventh record-high total…
Mitt Romney Blasts Trump for Commuting Roger Stone’s Sentence
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Utah Senator Mitt Romney once again emerged as the leading anti-Trump voice in the Republican Party, with a Saturday morning statement laying into Donald Trump’s Friday night commutation of his old friend Roger Stone’s prison sentence for his…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 10 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through July 10. We are now on our fourth day of rising mortality in the US and it’s now looking like a genuine upturn. The lag time between the rise in cases and the rise in deaths appears to be four weeks this time around, as you can see in…