James Clyburn Wasn’t Responsible for the Biden Surge. So What Was?
I suppose other people have already done this in greater detail than me, but I want to take a look at what caused Joe Biden’s recent surge. First off, here’s the RCP aggregate of the national polling over the past three months: The green dot is February 29, the date of the South Carolina primary.…
SciFi Superstar William Gibson’s New Book Imagines a Trump-Free Alternate Reality
Ulf Andersen/Zuma/Mother Jones illustration There are many alternate futures. But what if there were also… alternate pasts? That’s the premise of William Gibson’s latest novel, Agency. Gibson is the pioneering science fiction writer who coined the word “cyberspace” and whose 1984 debut novel, The Neuromancer, inspired The Matrix. In, Agency, the second novel in Gibson’s…
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in February
The American economy gained 273,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 183,000 jobs. That’s a pretty strong number, and the January number was revised upward as well. The headline unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 3.5 percent.…
Nurses Are Raising Red Flags About Hospitals’ Coronavirus Response
An ambulance worker outside a nursing facility where more than 50 people are sick and being tested for the COVID-19 virus in Kirkland, Washington.Elaine Thompson/AP Shortfalls in safety equipment, planning, and communication have left US hospitals unprepared to isolate coronavirus patients and protect healthcare staff during the the viral outbreak, according to a new survey…
Federal Judge Says Attorney General Can’t Be Trusted
Aaron Schwartz/CNP via ZUMA You may recall that when the Mueller Report was finally finished and handed over to the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr decided to immediately release his own four-page summary of the findings. Later, when the full report was released, we discovered that Barr’s summary was less than totally accurate. Barr,…
A Federal Judge Just Called Out William Barr for Distorting the Mueller Report’s Findings
Attorney General William Barr arrives at the State of the Union address in on February 4. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Attorney General William Barr showed a “lack of candor” in his public descriptions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2020 election, a federal judge said Thursday in a strikingly pointed shot at…