“Crisis Mode”: Mass Vaccination Could Get Very Messy Without Major Funding From Congress
A critical care nurse in Montana receives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.Thom Bridge/AP 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.The start of COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers has sparked hope that the end of…
The Corporate Scramble to Get in Line for Limited Vaccine Supplies is Underway
Boston Globe/Getty 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.As the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine are unpacked from the Styrofoam and dry ice and loaded into hospital freezers, the scramble to secure a place in line…
Here’s What It’s Like to Be a Staunch Democrat in a Deep Red Georgia County
Mother Jones illustration; TheMillCreek/Wikipedia 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.Andrea Baerwalde is the interim chair of the Democrats of Paulding County, Georgia, a subdivision-filled exurb about an hour northwest of Atlanta. Baerwalde and the other Democrats…
How I Cooked My Way Through a Terrible, Very Bad Year
Mother Jones illustration 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.Cooking helps keep me sane, so the lockdowns and restaurant closures of early spring didn’t shake up my food routine that much. Like millions of others, my household…
There’s No Need To Be Chicken Little About the Debt
Congressional negotiators are working feverishly to complete a coronavirus relief bill before Christmas, but they’re having a difficult time because Republicans are insisting that the total bill come in under a trillion dollars. Why? Because, they say, they’re concerned about the federal debt. They shouldn’t be. First off, here’s a comparison of US federal debt…
Things Are Grim and Life Sucks. Here Are Some Small Things to Distract and Delight You.
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.Roughly six weeks after Joe Biden won the election, the mood here remains exhausted and annoyed. Donald Trump is reportedly telling advisers that he’ll refuse to leave the White House on…