Trump Considering Naming Sidney Powell As Special Counsel
Sidney Powell is a name you probably had never heard until a month or two ago, but for the last 10 weeks she’s been unavoidable. The MAGA lawyer has worked tirelessly to overturn the 2020 election results, a goal at which she has been wildly unsuccessful. In furtherance of said failure she has played the…
Trump Loses It Because A Conservative Tabloid Recognizes Biden As the Next President
CBS/The Late Show, ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.What was President Donald Trump doing Saturday morning in one of his final days occupying the Oval Office? Complaining about an absolutely insane editorial board by the…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: December 18 Update
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These Recent Hacks Look Really Bad. How Should America Respond?
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What Combination of Interventions Is Most Effective for a Pandemic?
A team of researchers led by a group from Oxford University has published an interesting new study about the effectiveness of various interventions in the fight against COVID-19. Here are their basic results: Unlike some previous studies, this one finds that closing schools and universities can be quite effective—along with very strict limits on gatherings.…
US Student Debt Just Hit a Mind-Bending Milestone—So We Made This Animation
One point seven trillion. That’s the amount of outstanding student debt in the United States—for now. But don’t blink: That number is ballooning even as you read this sentence. Since the Great Recession took hold in 2008, student debt has been among the fastest-growing types of debt for everyday Americans. It’s growing faster than mortgages,…