Why Is Donald Trump So Obsessed With Flat Stimulus Checks?
Is this signature the only thing Donald Trump cares about?Imago via ZUMA 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.This is so, so dumb: The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed an economic relief package that would offer far…
How Dare Joe Biden Choose Partisan Democrats for His Cabinet!
Be afraid, be very very afraid that this woman is in charge of the federal budgeting process.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA 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.Here is Jim Geraghty writing in National Review about Joe Biden’s…
We Only Get 100 Million Doses of the Pfizer Vaccine. Is This a Problem?
John Nacion/SOPA Images via ZUMA 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 news of the day is that the federal government contracted for only 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine (enough for 50 million people) and…
Biden Set to Name Non-Democrat Non-Civilian as Secretary of Defense
General Lloyd Austin in 2016, shortly before his retirement from the Army.Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA 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 man, I hate this so much: SCOOP: It’s done—Biden has selected Retired Gen. Lloyd…
Please. Can We Cut the Crap and Just Help People?
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via ZUMA 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.I don’t have any particular hook for this aside from the looming end of the year, but it’s depressing as hell to watch our leaders screw…
Here’s Another Look at COVID-19 Deaths in the US vs. Europe
Here’s a different look at the COVID-19 mortality rate in Europe and the United States: (Belgium is actually at the top, but I removed them because they wreck the scale and make the rest of the chart hard to read.) Excluding Belgium, the US is at the top of the chart in terms of cases,…