Here’s How Trump Is Emboldening Other Countries’ “Bad Behavior” on the Climate Crisis
President Donald Trump in 2017, around the time he announced plans to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement.Xinhua/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The origins of the…
“We Need To Move On” from Hydroxychloroquine, Says Trump Testing Czar
Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of Health and Human Services.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The country’s coronavirus testing czar on Sunday tried to put the endless debate over hydroxychloroquine, the president’s preferred coronavirus treatment, to bed. “We need to move on from that and talk…
Democracy Depends on the Postal Service More Than Ever. Republicans Won’t Help Fix It.
Bill Clark/Zuma Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.An important sticking point in negotiations over the next coronavirus relief package in Congress is funding for the US Postal Service, which will play a critical role in the November elections. As Democratic voters increasingly turn to voting by…
Trump Thinks Australia’s Outbreak Vindicates His Coronavirus Leadership. The Opposite Is True.
Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump thinks that just because there are coronavirus outbreaks around the world, he’s off the hook. That, and the only reason that the pandemic is raging unchecked is because terrific testing is revealing cases. With these twin denials,…
Deborah Birx Sounds a Dire New Warning: Coronavirus is “Extraordinarily Widespread”
Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator joins President Donald Trump in a roundtable on donating plasma at the American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington on July 30, 2020.Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force…
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,…