On His 119th Birthday, Louis Armstrong’s Comments About the 1918 Pandemic Continue to Guide Us
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In his 1954 memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong paints a vivid portrait of the 1918 pandemic and the connective tissue of solidarity, resilience, and stamina that helped him survive it: A serious flu epidemic had hit New Orleans.…
Raw Data: The US Is the 7th Worst Country in the World for COVID-19 Deaths
After hearing Donald Trump blather away about how great the United States has done in its battle with COVID-19—based on a completely meaningless statistic—perhaps you’d like to see how we’re really doing. Here you go: We are the seventh worst in the world, behind only Belgium, the UK, Peru, Italy, Sweden, and Chile. At the…
Trump: US COVID-19 Response Is the Best in the World
Axios For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.We all know that Donald Trump is an idiot, so I’ve mostly stopped highlighting the idiocy-of-the-day from the White House. By now, you’re either convinced or you aren’t. But every once in a while Trump turns in a performance so jaw…
The Self-Destruction of Donald J. Trump
Doug Mills/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If the current numbers hold, sometime in mid- to late-September, the United States will likely reach the horrific marker of 200,000 people dead due to the coronavirus crisis. No doubt, the media will widely report on this artificial…
The 3 Worst Moments From Trump’s Newest Axios Interview
For the second time in less than a month, President Donald Trump sat down for a mildly tough interview, which aired Monday on HBO, during which he was confronted with facts and some of his most glaring falsehoods were appropriately challenged. It was a sweeping conversation with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that produced a string of…
Dementia Is On the Wane . . . But Maybe Not For Long
Bernd Thissen/DPA via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A new study says that dementia has been on the wane for multiple decades: The risk for a person to develop dementia over a lifetime is now 13 percent lower than it was in 2010. Incidence rates at…