A School District in Georgia Says Requiring Masks Is Impractical. But It Already Enforces a Lengthy Dress Code.
SDI Productions/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As students in some states are starting to trickle back into schools, those very institutes of learning have become the latest battleground for the Great Mask Debate. (I use the term “debate” loosely, and sarcastically.) On Thursday, the debate hit…
The 3 Worst Moments From Trump’s Newest Axios Interview
For the second time in less than a month, President Donald Trump sat down for a mildly tough interview, which aired Monday on HBO, during which he was confronted with facts and some of his most glaring falsehoods were appropriately challenged. It was a sweeping conversation with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that produced a string of…
In His Latest Coronavirus Rant, Trump Slams Fauci, CNN, China, and the Democrats
On Monday, President Donald Trump pulled out all the old stops to defend his inability to control the coronavirus: delegitimizing public health experts, denouncing the media, and vilifying Democrats. After signing an executive order limiting US government agencies’ use of foreign labor, Trump began extolling the virtues of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug that has not…
Trump Goes After Birx for Speaking the Truth on the Coronavirus Crisis
Yuri Gripas/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Trump on Monday lashed out at Dr. Deborah Birx after the White House coronavirus response coordinator warned that the coronavirus is now “extraordinarily widespread” in the United States—an assessment that while backed by science, contradicts Trump’s ongoing efforts to…
“We Need To Move On” from Hydroxychloroquine, Says Trump Testing Czar
Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of Health and Human Services.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The country’s coronavirus testing czar on Sunday tried to put the endless debate over hydroxychloroquine, the president’s preferred coronavirus treatment, to bed. “We need to move on from that and talk…
Trump Thinks Australia’s Outbreak Vindicates His Coronavirus Leadership. The Opposite Is True.
Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump thinks that just because there are coronavirus outbreaks around the world, he’s off the hook. That, and the only reason that the pandemic is raging unchecked is because terrific testing is revealing cases. With these twin denials,…