Friday Cat Blogging – 11 December 2020
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts Monika Bauerlein, CEO What a year. For my year-end column, “There’s No Quick Fix For Healing Democracy,” I unpack how change happens and why 2021 has got to be the year we commit to building democratic infrastructure. That includes journalism, and…
White House to FDA: Approve Pfizer Vaccine Or Else
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.Oh great. This should help make everyone more confident that the Pfizer vaccine isn’t being rushed through due to political pressure: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday told…
How Do People Really Decide Which Health Care Plan to Choose?
Margot Sanger-Katz writes about the difficulty of choosing a health care plan: The range of choice is generally heralded as a good thing….But it turns out in real life most people are terrible at picking the health plan that is right for them. Health insurance is a complicated financial product, and study after study has…
It’s No Longer Enough To Be Merely Anti-Trump
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.As you know, 17 states with Republican attorneys general have sued four other states in an effort to overturn the election results. Their arguments are farcical and the Supreme Court is…
Here’s Why the GOP Doesn’t Care About Pumping More Relief Money Into the Pandemic Economy
I’m having a little trouble finding something both new and interesting to write about today, but luckily for us all the Fed released its latest Flow of Funds report this morning. I may have some additional interesting tidbits to write about later, but for now here’s the basic distribution of national income: Apologies for the…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: December 9 Update
The United States passed two milestones on Wednesday: we recorded more than 3,000 deaths and our mortality rate rose firmly above the peak of our first wave. Those vaccines can’t come fast enough. Here’s the coronavirus death toll through December 9. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.