Why Won’t Trump Let Dr. Fauci Testify Before Congress?
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The White House won’t let Anthony Fauci testify before Congress next week: The White House is blocking Anthony S. Fauci from testifying before a House subcommittee investigating the coronavirus outbreak and response, arguing that it would be “counterproductive”…
Donald Trump’s Defense of Michael Flynn and Roger Stone Is a Giant Gaslight
Donald Trump takes questions from reporters on April 30.Jim Loscalzo/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A full-on freakout on the right over the revelation that the FBI planned for the prospect that then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would lie in a January 2016 interview,…
These Scientists Saw COVID-19 Coming. Now They’re Trying to Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts.
PREDICT team members sample wildlife in the field in Sierra Leone.Simon Townsley/PREDICT 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. It was late one night in January 2009, and Jonathan Epstein was standing on…
Trump’s Commerce Department Just Hired a Lawyer With Ties to White Nationalists
Jared Taylor, second from left, appears alongside Richard Spencer and other white nationalists during a panel in 2016. Taylor was represented in court by attorney Adam Candeub, a new hire in the Commerce Department.Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump…
The Trump Administration Is Now Hiding Information About Taliban Attacks in Afghanistan
The national flag of Afghanistan rises from the site of a massive blast in Kabul, where the Taliban launched an attack in September 2019. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The NATO-led military coalition in Afghanistan has stopped releasing details about Taliban attacks against the Afghan…
An Uprising Is Still Possible, Even if We Can’t Meet in the Streets
Jeff Roberson/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.How do you have a mass revolt without a mob? Prof. Frances Fox Piven is the 87-year-old “intellectual guru of activist progressives”—so sayeth the New York Times. Her work, she explained to me, is about “uprisings that sometimes occur when there’s…