The GOP Is Blocking Journalists From Covering Trump’s Renomination. That’s a First in Modern History.
/Star Max/IPx For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.It’s the political party whose members openly mock masks, lambast the nation’s top infectious disease expert as a partisan hack for simply doing his job, and protect a president whose chief response to a pandemic has been to deny, deny,…
Biden Has a Weak Link on Energy and Ethics— an Ex-Obama Official With Deep Fossil Fuel Ties
Then-Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar (L), former Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) (C) and then-Vice President Joseph Biden in 2011.Brendan Smialowski/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Ken Salazar, the Obama…
How Larry King Got Duped Into Starring in Chinese Propaganda
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica‘s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Jacobi Niv had paid…
With the Virus on the Rise, Alaskans Crowd Rivers to Stock Up on Wild Salmon
A fisherman pulls one of two sockeye salmon that landed in his net while dip-netting on the Kenai River.Nathanial Wilder For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit news organization. Cortney Edwards’ camp at the mouth of…
Parents Who Teach at the University of Alabama’s Nursing School Were Practically Encouraged to Quit
sshepard/GETTY For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Suzanne Prevost, the Dean of University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing, sent out an email on Thursday that elicited shockwaves through the university’s faculty. In the email, which went out to the nursing school’s faculty, Dean Prevost explained that she…
A Hurricane, a Pandemic, and Trump: The Triple Crisis Is Barreling Down on Florida
Trump returning from playing golf at his Sterling, Va. course on August 1. Patrick Semansky, AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall sometime tonight near southeast Florida after causing landslides, power outages, and widespread flooding in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic,…