Trump’s Energy Department Recommends Throwing Money at Uranium Mines
Signs on the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in Red Water Pond, Navajo Nation. Washington Post/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Thursday morning, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced “an array of policy options to restore America’s leadership in nuclear energy” by reducing the nation’s dependence…
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…
President Trump Wondered Out Loud If Injecting Disinfectant Could Cure COVID-19
Tripplaar Kristoffer/SIPA/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Thursday evening, after the Labor Department reported that 4.4 million Americans filed jobless claims in the past week, California announced its deadliest day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and New York City’s top health official estimated that…
Trump Signed His Latest Immigration Order. It’s Not As Bad As We Thought Monday Night, But That’s Far From a Relief.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At his press conference Wednesday night, President Trump said he had just signed the executive order he tweeted about on Monday, temporarily restricting some immigrant visas—a move he framed as a needed economic response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s destroying the US…
A Useless Semantic Fight and Neutering Brian Kemp: Trump’s Latest Press Conference Was a Real Headscratcher
President Donald J. Trump (L) and CDC Director Robert Redfield (R) are joined by members of the Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks on the COVID-19 pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.Michael Reynolds/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Wednesday evening,…
Trump Says “We’re in Very Good Shape on Testing.” A New Report Shows How Far off He Is.
President Trump, Republican governors, and right-wing protesters are antsy to lift social distancing guidelines and return to business as usual. But a new proposal for reopening the economy while protecting the public from the coronavirus shows just how far we have to go before we can safely return to something resembling normalcy. The “Roadmap to…