Another Look at Reopening Schools
It’s empty now, but it should it stay empty next year?Cindy Yamanaka/SCNG via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A friend emails about my post this morning calling for schools to reopen next year: You have been consistent in calling for opening at least elementary schools this…
The Democrats Have a New Climate Plan that Doesn’t Entirely Depend on Capitalism
Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I’ve written before about how climate change is President Donald Trump and Republican party’s greatest weakness in the 2020 race. But Democrats haven’t offered much in the way of an alternative—until now: On Tuesday, the 17-month-old House Select Committee…
Goldman Sachs: Mask Mandate Could Be Worth $1 Trillion
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, lowers his face mask as he prepares to testify before the Senate.Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Forbes reports on a new analysis from Goldman Sachs: Goldman’s analysts found that wearing…
A Customer Attacked a Barista for Asking Her to Wear a Mask. Bad Move: $32,000 in Tips Rolled In.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Like clockwork, a customer walked into a Starbucks without a mask and loudly refused the barista’s request that she wear one (on order of county officials). A more authoritarian overreach, the customer had never seen, so this principled, in-the-right customer—who was denied…
Reddit Finally Banned The_Donald. That Won’t Stop the Hate It Unleashed.
Seb Daly/Web Summit via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the last several years, it’s become increasingly apparent that social media isn’t a universal good. In that time technology companies have, through algorithms that prioritize polarization and absolutely no foresight, repeatedly helped give a home…
The Christian Right Finally Wins a Skirmish in a 45-Year War
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The rise of the Christian right wasn’t originally driven by opposition to abortion. It was about state funding of private, Christian, white-only schools. Nearly a half century later, they finally won a measure of victory: The Supreme Court struck down a Montana…