From Our Archives, the Beginning of the Obama Presidency
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Ah, 2009. For the past week or so, I’ve lived in a time vortex propelling me back to that year. Then, as now, a Democratic president was about to take the…
Friday Cat Blogging – 20 November 2020
In today’s picture, Hilbert shows off his stretching ability after an exhausting five minutes lying on the patio. That is one handsome cat, isn’t it?
The GOP’s COVID Response: Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem riding a horse in JulyIcon Sportswire/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the spring, when the coronavirus outbreak was concentrated mostly in the liberal Northeast—with a particularly vicious assault on New…
How “the Latino Vote” Was Invented
The Puerto Rican flag waves as former President Barack Obama speaks at a Biden–Harris drive-in rally in Orlando, Florida, in October. Ricardo Aruengo/AFP/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Long before the 2020 election, Latino leaders…
Geraldo Has an Idea to Get Trump to Leave: Name a Vaccine “The Trump”
In an effort to mitigate the sting of defeat, Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera has suggested that a forthcoming vaccine be named after Donald Trump. Such a gesture, he said on Friday, could work to cheer up our septuagenarian baby president as he continues to rely on dangerous conspiracy theories to reject political reality. “I…
Here’s How the US Is Doing on COVID-19
Yesterday I showed you the current COVID-19 death rate in the US compared to similar European countries. The US looked fairly good, down toward the bottom of the pack. But the US and Europe took different paths to their current levels. In Europe, mortality dropped nearly to zero over the summer. In the US, we…