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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…

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…