Trump Threatens to Withhold State Funding Over Mail-In Voting
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Trump threatened to halt funding in Michigan and Nevada on Wednesday over those states’ pushes to expand mail-in voting in response to the coronavirus—yet another signal that the president views efforts designed to make voting easier as a danger…
Why Do Republicans Hate Vote-By-Mail?
Neal Waters/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.More threats from our hydroxychloroquine-addled commander-in-chief: President Trump escalated his criticism of voting by mail, threatening to withhold federal funding from Michigan after the state announced plans to send applications for absentee ballots to all registered voters ahead of primary…
Jared Kushner Had One Job: Solve America’s Supply Crisis. He Helped Private Companies Instead.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On March 29, President Trump held a press briefing to tout “Project Airbridge,” the administration’s new effort to organize and pay for airlifts of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies from abroad. The first of Project Airbridge’s “big, great planes” coming…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: May 19 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through May 19. France apparently had some kind of data reporting problem over the past couple of days and corrected it by reporting negative deaths today. So their recent upward blip was just a counting mistake. Sweden is looking a little odd: the official figures (gray line) have diverged considerably…
Breonna Taylor Is One of a Shocking Number of Black People to See Armed Police Barge Into Their Homes
Breonna TaylorTaylor family photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In mid-March, police officers barged into Breonna Taylor’s home in Louisville, Kentucky, in the middle of the night and discharged a spray of bullets that struck and killed the 26-year-old EMT. More than two months later, leaders in…
Here’s a Regional Look at COVID-19 Deaths
Chad Orzel asked for a regional look at the COVID-19 death rate in the United States. As it happens, this is a huge pain in the ass because the boffins at the COVID Tracking Project make their data accessible in a virtually unsusable fashion. That’s why this is the one and only time you’ll ever…