Reopening Schools Is One of the Biggest Coronavirus Challenges. Trump and Fox News Are Making It Much Worse.
Gripas Yuri/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Amid the record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases, and as parents around the country face the enormous decision of whether to send their children back to school this fall, President Trump on Wednesday threatened to pull federal funding from school districts…
Is Small-Town White Montana Ready for My Big, Brown, Loud Family? It Doesn’t Matter, Because We’re Here Anyway.
Bunsen Peak, Yellowstone National ParkVenu Gupta and family For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.My parents came to the United States from India in 1973. I grew up believing that camping equaled two things: (1) being outside in the sun and therefore getting darker, a cardinal sin (colorism,…
LAPD Is Offended, Calls In Sick
Stuart Palley/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.From the Los Angeles Times tonight: An unsigned letter circulated among the Los Angeles Police Department rank and file last week, encouraging officers to call in sick to protect their own interests….“They succeeded in defunding the police; what do you…
Good News About That Factually Flawed Anti-Pinker Letter: Its Dishonesty Has Been Widely Exposed
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.So much for factual accuracy, sound reasoning, moral clarity, and transparency, or any other value that academics aim to uphold, judging by a dangerously dishonest open letter to the Linguistics Society of America. A handful of linguists co-signed a factually flawed and…
Donald Trump Is Trashing Republican GOTV Efforts
Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Washington Post describes how the lunacy of the Trumpified Republican Party is playing out: President Trump’s relentless attacks on the security of mail voting are driving suspicion among GOP voters toward absentee ballots — a dynamic alarming Republican strategists,…
The Great Coup of 2021 Will Soon Be Upon Us
Brian Cahn/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.According to Wikipedia, Judd Gregg is a “moderate Republican.” He served a couple of terms as governor of New Hampshire and three terms in the Senate. President Obama thought well enough of him to nominate Gregg to be his Secretary…