Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: October 15 Update
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts How have authoritarians been stopped before? Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein unpacks that and more, and we hope you’ll give her pre-election column a read because we all need to be prepared for what’s ahead. And if you agree that Mother…
Is Rudy Giuliani a Russian Pawn?
Rudy Giuliani demonstrating something or other to the press after a television interview.Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The bombshell story of Hunter Biden’s computer goes something like this: Rudy Giuliani was strolling around in Wilmington one day when he…
A New Song From the Mountain Goats With a Nice Backstory
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.There are many reasons—too many to count—why Twitter is bad. Putting aside that it still hasn’t banned Nazis, or that it’s doing a piss-poor job of preventing the spread of disinformation, it’s also a platform designed to indulge in…
How Black Oaklanders Finally Expelled the School Police
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.One winter night in Oakland nine years before a police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck, Raheim Brown and his friend Timesha Stewart, both 20, were smoking weed in a Honda, hazard lights blinking. It was 9 p.m.,…
Biden Explains How He Would Have Handled the Pandemic
NBC/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.While President Trump began his town hall on NBC by dodging basic questions about when he was tested for the coronavirus before the last debate and railing against wearing masks, Joe Biden opened his parallel town hall…
Trump Repeatedly Refuses to Disavow QAnon: “They Are Very Much Against Pedophilia”
NBC/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.About 10 minutes into President Trump’s town hall Thursday night in Miami, NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie asked him a fairly straightforward question about QAnon, the right-wing conspiracy which, as my colleague Ali Breland has explained, “postulates that…