Trump Is Claiming Coloradans Are Showering Him With Thank You Notes for Ventilators
Michael Reynolds/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump was up early Saturday morning taking credit for sending a few ventilators to Colorado and thanking all the people in the state who allegedly sent him “thank you” notes for his benevolence. He also tagged Sen. Cory…
Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Bragged About Getting a Haircut to Look Good for Fox News
Didn’t want another bad hair day.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Rules. Who are they really for? Not the president’s director of the United States National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, whose characterizations of the pandemic have been flagrantly bullish. You’ll recall he’s the one who urged…
Coronavirus Is Not Just a Health Crisis—It’s an Environmental Justice Crisis
A family leaves Sunday church services surrounded by chemical plants in Lions, Louisiana.Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. More than 50 years ago, despite a storm that was brewing…
California Is Going to Pay Restaurants to Deliver Meals to At-Risk Seniors
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a March 22 op-ed, published just after the coronavirus had forced much of the US economy to shut down, Washington, DC, chef and emergency-food activist José Andrés proposed an elegant solution to two looming problems: Have the federal government pay idled…
People in Maryland Flooded an Emergency Hotline to Ask If They Should Take Trump’s Advice on Disinfectants
Michael Reynolds/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Trump’s absurd suggestion that injections of disinfectants could help cure the coronavirus wasn’t, as he later suggested, a harmless stroke of sarcasm. More than 100 people in Maryland have earnestly called the state’s emergency management hotline asking about the…
Reopening a Restaurant Will Take a Lot More Than a Governor’s Order
Hildebrant’s Deli, which opened in 1879, in Augusta, Ga., Monday, April 6, 2020.Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For the last five years, John Gianoulidis satisfied Atlanta-area residents’ craving for Greek food with gyros and baklava from his two diners, both called Kafenio, and a…