Coronavirus Could Cause Health Premiums to Skyrocket, New Study Finds
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where COVID-19 patients are being treated in Santa Barbara County, CaliforniaAmy Katz/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.When health insurance companies set premiums for 2020, they weren’t counting on a global pandemic that could potentially cost them hundreds of billions of dollars. Now…
Trump Says He’ll Ignore Key Oversight Provision in Stimulus Bill
President Donald Trump at a signing ceremony for a $2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill in the Oval Office on FridayErin Schaff/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump says he plans to ignore a key oversight provision in the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress…
Here’s What America Is Streaming to Survive Being Stuck At Home With Kids
Yvan Cohen/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.With schools shut down and residents under some kind of stay-at-home order in most states, millions of people are working from home, often with children lurking, bickering, and screaming in the background. Yet when Zoom calls are too important to…
Can a Pandemic Put Your Civil Liberties On Hold?
Residents at the Shore Towers Condominium in Astoria, New York, sing on the balcony to make people feel united in the quarantine as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States.Ron Adar/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In late January, China’s president Xi Jinping ordered several…
Med Students Aren’t Sitting Out the Fight Against the Coronavirus
Medical residents go over patient information with medical students.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Saturday, March 14, Avery Thompson and 650 other medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, received an email: Clinical classes were going online and planned hours in the hospital…
“Shoppers Have Had Enough”: Instacart Workers Plan a Strike
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, workers for the grocery delivery service Instacart are planning to strike as part of an effort for better workplace protections amid the coronavirus pandemic. The nationwide walkout is one of a handful of similar actions across the country that call attention to…