How Fast Will the Economy Recover From COVID-19?
Apparently my old workplace has been deemed nonessential. Sad.Kevin Drum For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.How quickly will the American economy recover after the COVID-19 pandemic is over? That depends on a whole lot of things: Will it really be over in a couple of months? Or…
Millions of People Can’t Afford to Keep Their Lights On. Now There’s a Pandemic.
Mint Images via Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last month, a city council meeting in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, went viral after an angry city commissioner began shouting at the mayor about the city’s lack of preparedness for the novel coronavirus pandemic that was just beginning…
COVID-19 Is Producing Weird Dreams
This was me last night.Trask Smith/CSM via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Terry Nguyen reports on one of the lesser-known effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: As people around the world hunker down in quarantine or otherwise adjust to the disease, many have anecdotally reported having weirder,…
Black People Are Dying From COVID-19 at Higher Rates Because Racism Is a Preexisting Condition
Erica Harris and her daughter Jordan wear their protective masks as they walk home on Chicago’s South Side.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A few weeks ago, a thought woke Camara Jones up in the middle of the night. It was about the coronavirus. That’s…
Why Are Republicans Being Cheapskates?
Kevin Drum For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Republicans and Democrats are at loggerheads over an interim coronavirus rescue bill. Let’s call it Rescue 3.5: For now, Republicans leaders want to keep this measure narrow, focused exclusively on giving a $250 billion boost to the Paycheck Protection Program….“That…
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