Why the Fuss Over the Serbia-Kosovo Treaty?
Joyce Boghosian/White House/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Hey, do you all remember that big Serbia-Kosovo treaty that President Trump bragged about last Friday? No? I don’t blame you. You probably don’t care all that much about Serbia and Kosovo in the first…
New Study Suggests Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was Responsible for 19% of August COVID-19 Cases
During the month between August 2nd and September 2nd the US recorded 1.4 million new cases of COVID-19. According to a new study, 19 percent of those cases were caused by the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. That is not a typo: 19 percent. And God only knows how many more to add to…
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Is Now Linked to More Than 250,000 Coronavirus Cases
Grace Pritchett/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The inevitable fallout from last month’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, an annual event that packed nearly 500,000 people into a small town in South Dakota, is becoming clear, and the emerging picture is grim. According to a…
The Trump Files: Donald Sued Other People Named Trump for Using Their Own Name
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files”—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current President—on August 2, 2016. Donald Trump…
Fact of the Day: The Demise of Labor Unions Has Cost You a Bundle
Today will bring both paeans to the labor movement that used to be and sorrowful laments to the labor movement that’s nearly extinct today. But really, the entire story can be boiled down to a single chart: If union density and income share had remained at their level of 50 years ago—before Reaganomics put an…
One Woman’s Remarkable Quest to Feed Seattle’s Frontline Workers
Ezell’s Famous Chicken donated 95 lunches to feed University of Washington Specimen Processing Services. The lab workers prepare samples for COVID-19 and other lab tests. In April, We Got This Seattle fed 6,851 people through meal donations.We Got This Seattle For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother…