Yet Another Study Says School Closures Have No Impact on COVID-19
A new study published in Nature estimates that lockdown orders around the world “prevented or delayed on the order of 62 million confirmed cases, corresponding to averting roughly 530 million total infections.” That’s a lot! However, be aware that this is, as usual, based on a model of COVID-19 spread that may or may not…
Georgia Voters Are Waiting Hours to Cast Ballots, in a Bad Omen for November
Voters wait in a line that stretched around Atlanta’s Metropolitan Library on Tuesday.Steve Schaefer/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If Georgia’s primaries on Tuesday are a preview of what COVID-era swing-state elections could look like in November, we’re in for a lot of problems. “This election has…
Mississippi Is Finally Taking Real Steps to Change its Racist State Flag
Hundreds of protesters stand in silence for almost nine minutes in response to the recent death of George Floyd in police custody, Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Jackson, Miss.Rogelio V. Solis/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.There’s no doubt that the anti-racism protests sparked by George Floyd’s…
What a Deal: Esper Doesn’t Resign and Trump Doesn’t Fire Him
Mark Esper, front right, taking part in the walk of shame to the St. John’s church photo-op last week.Shawn Thew/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Trump sure has problems with his top military people: The president consulted several advisers to ask their opinion of…
Meet the Propagandists and Conspiracy Theorists Behind the One America News Network
One America News Network correspondent Chanel Rion at the White House.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the last several weeks, President Trump has repeatedly promoted the conspiracy-mongering One American News Network on his Twitter feed and by regularly calling on its correspondent at…
Do We Know How to Tame “Warrior” Cops?
How hard is to reform police forces to become less violent and less confrontational? Connie Rice is a civil rights attorney who has been working on this problem for years in Los Angeles, and in the LA Tmes today she says there’s some good news: Under warrior policing, communities on the right side of the…