The United States Marks Half a Million COVID-19 Deaths
Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg walks among thousands of white flags planted in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19 in October 2020.Patrick Semansky/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 United States’ COVID-19 death toll has…
A Small Georgia Town Was Trying to Play by the Rules. The State Seized Its Vaccines Anyway.
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.It was a gloriously sunny Wednesday in early February, but Dennis Fowler was worried. The 77-year-old retired transit worker sat in the waiting room at his doctor’s office at the Medical…
The Pandemic Has Unmasked America’s Deepest Inequities
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.COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate, but the havoc wrought by the virus—the deaths, economic devastation, and intergenerational trauma—has disproportionately affected Black, Latino, and Native American communities. The Trump administration’s feckless response didn’t help,…
New Research Confirms the British COVID-19 Variant Is Running Rampant Across the US
Andreas Arnold/AP Images 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.In mid-January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that a coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom was likely going to, as the New York…
I Moderated a Facebook Live Event With Two Nursing Home Residents. It Was Shocking.
Andres “Jay” Molina, Molly Schwartz, and Vincent Pierce talk during a Facebook Live event.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.It’s impossible to consider the full impact of the pandemic without looking at nursing homes.…
Letting People Out of Prison to Avoid COVID Isn’t That Controversial
A woman wearing a mask takes part in a vigil outside Queensboro Correctional Facility on April 23, 2020Johannes Eisele/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.A new poll indicates widespread public support for releasing some prisoners early…