Maybe the Coronavirus Will Give Us a Miss!
It’s pretty in Plumas County, but that’s not going to stop the coronavirus from spreading.Sacramento Bee/ZUMAPRESS For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The LA Times reports today on the attitude toward the coronavirus pandemic in rural northern California: On Tuesday afternoon, no confirmed cases of COVID-19 had been…
Voters Are Finally Starting to Notice the Trump Administration’s Botched Response to the Pandemic
President Donald Trump at a press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic White House on April 3, 2020. Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As the country was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic in March, President Donald Trump saw some of the best approval numbers…
“One of the greatest answers I’ve ever heard.”
Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A couple of days ago John Roberts asked a question. President Trump immediately tossed it to Mike Pence, who used up nearly a thousand words saying nothing responsive. Remarkably, Roberts followed up not once, not twice, but four…
A 1947 Smallpox Outbreak Was a “Textbook Example of a Strong, Humane, and Effective Public Health Response”
Children wait in line for immunization shots at a health station in New York City.Library of Congress For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In February 1947 an American businessman…
Trump Administration Adopts Mini-Universal Health Care for COVID-19
Amy Katz/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.What a brilliant idea! The Trump administration will use a federal stimulus package to pay hospitals that treat uninsured people with the new coronavirus as long as they agree not to bill the patients or issue unexpected charges. ….A 1918-like…
Trump Just Fired the Inspector General Who Handled Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint
President Donald Trump at a roundtable meeting with energy sector CEOs in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 3, 2020. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Late Friday, President Donald Trump informed Congress that he intended to remove the inspector general of…