Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 17 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through July 17. No changes since the day before. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. The Public Health Agency of Sweden is here.
John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack.
John Lewis speaks during the Annual Bloody Sunday March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020.JOSHUA LOTT/AFP via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On March 1, as he was battling stage 4 cancer, John Lewis returned to Selma, Alabama, to…
Meet the 21-Year-Old Explaining the Science Behind Your Favorite TikTok Hits
Mother Jones Illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.What is it about “Say So” by Doja Cat that makes you want to dance? Why does “Ribs” by Lorde make me feel nostalgic? What makes “Love on Top” by Beyoncé so good? Music bombards our brains, causing us…
How Chad Wolf Became Donald Trump’s New Made-for-TV Enforcer
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. Andrew Harnik/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Back in November, I explained how Chad Wolf, the acting Homeland Security secretary President Trump now fawns over, got his job. The short answer was incompetence: In April, President Donald Trump got rid of…
Friday Cat Blogging – 17 July 2020
Blogging has been slow for the past few days because my mother is now home from the hospital and I have taken up a second career as an eldercare nurse in training. This mostly means running around between doctors, making sure mom eats, and bullying her into doing some physical therapy. And to be honest,…
Try Listening to Yourself Like Studs Terkel Would
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Reeling from Lorrie Moore’s withering review of my generation in the New York Review of Books via a Sally Rooney takedown—is Moore right? Is she dead wrong? Is it both?! Why am I weeping?!—I needed a boost. So I went to Ben Fountain, who…