Democrats Made Voting Easier. Texas Smashed Turnout Records. These Things Are Related.
Robin Jerstad/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.By Friday the question in Texas wasn’t whether the state would surpass its overall turnout in 2016—it already had—but by just how much. In the end, Texas blew past its previous record, in the words…
Businesses Around the Country Are Boarding Up Ahead of Election Season
A pedestrian passes a boarded up entrance at the Saks Fifth Avenue store, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020.AP Photo/Chris Pizzello For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Businesses in New York; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; San Francisco; and other cities across the country are boarding up…
Should You Recycle Your Disposable Mask?
A worker at the start-up Plaxtil company handles protective masks as they are made ready for recycling.Guillaume Souvant/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In March,…
Decimals, Drama, and Hotel Transylvania: The Friday Before Halloween With One Fifth-Grader
10-year-old Zoe Oden on Zoom.Mother Jones Illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The first thing I notice when I log on is Ms. Washington’s purple witch hat. Just a few Zoom squares away, there’s a background of a spooky Halloween scene, complete with…
Everything Is About to Change Forever and Always: A Weekend Reading Guide
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Four years ago, on the Friday before the election, I had a party at a bar in New York to commemorate that the most crazy stressful bizarre election of our lives was finally about to be over. “We’ve…
Trump Just Told His Biggest Coronavirus Lie Yet
President Donald Trump during a rally at the Oakland County Airport, in Michigan on Friday.Scott Hasse/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.As Americans head to the polls amid a massive surge in coronavirus cases and an increase in COVID-19 deaths, President Donald…