Election Workers Are Putting Their Lives on the Line in Georgia’s Recount
Election workers in Gwinnett County, Georgia, work through a recount of 414,000 ballots.TNS via ZUMA Wire 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.Election workers in Georgia are toiling away to recount ballots cast in the presidential election—just…
Trump’s Refusal to Start the Transition Process Is Crippling America’s Coronavirus Response
President Donald Trump delivers an update on his administration’s COVID-19 response at the White House on November 13, 2020.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Wire 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.The Trump administration’s ongoing refusal to recognize Joe Biden…
Judge: Chad Wolf Is a Fake Secretary of Homeland Security
Greg Nash – Pool Via Cnp/CNP via ZUMA 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.A federal judge has restored DACA—which protects immigrants living in the US since childhood—to nearly full operation. That’s great, and I’m happy about…
Donald Trump Wants You to Know That He Definitely Did Not Just Concede the Election
Donald Trump, totally not conceding.Evan Vucci/AP 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.For a brief time Sunday morning, Donald Trump appeared to accept reality. Nearly eight days after every major media outlet had declared Joe Biden the…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: November 14 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 14. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. Once again, ignore the recent data from France. Their death rate is not going down. For some reason, though, they haven’t reported any new numbers for the past three days.
Lawyers on Both Sides of Bush v. Gore Agree: Joe Biden Clearly Won the 2020 Election
Rick Loomis/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 200o, after an excruciatingly close election came down to 537 votes in Florida, the Supreme Court handed the presidency to the GOP in its infamous Bush v. Gore decision.…