Do We Really Need Senate Confirmation of 1,200 Positions?
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This is probably not a big vote-getter, but it’s worth a thought: seriously i want congress to either completely rewrite the vacancies act or just repeal it altogether — b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 3, 2020 This tweet was spurred by President Trump’s…
Donald Trump’s Businesses Did Okay in 2019. But 2020 Might Be Awful for His Personal Wealth.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Before COVID-19 hit, Donald Trump’s business empire was continuing to earn hundreds of millions of dollars. But the president’s recently filed personal financial disclosures show that much of that came from hotels and resorts, two of the industries hardest…
In His Latest Coronavirus Rant, Trump Slams Fauci, CNN, China, and the Democrats
On Monday, President Donald Trump pulled out all the old stops to defend his inability to control the coronavirus: delegitimizing public health experts, denouncing the media, and vilifying Democrats. After signing an executive order limiting US government agencies’ use of foreign labor, Trump began extolling the virtues of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug that has not…
Trump’s Attack on Mail Voting Is Good for Democrats
Patrick Fallon/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This is so bugfuck nuts: President Trump’s unfounded attacks on mail balloting are discouraging his own supporters from embracing the practice, according to polls and Republican leaders across the country, prompting growing alarm that one of the central strategies of…
It’s Possible to Drive Down Gun Violence Without Increasing Arrests
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Defunding police ideally means shifting more of a city’s budget to social services, and we’ve found yet another reason why that’s a good idea: Doing so helped drive down gun violence in Oakland, California, a city long known for high murder rates.…
Trump Goes After Birx for Speaking the Truth on the Coronavirus Crisis
Yuri Gripas/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Trump on Monday lashed out at Dr. Deborah Birx after the White House coronavirus response coordinator warned that the coronavirus is now “extraordinarily widespread” in the United States—an assessment that while backed by science, contradicts Trump’s ongoing efforts to…