Fact of the Day: COVID-19 Deaths Around the World
Every morning I post the current rate of COVID-19 deaths in eight different countries, so why am I posting this yet again today? Because I still get periodic complaints that I’m misleading people by using a different scale for each country. So here’s what it looks like using the same scale for everyone: What do…
Conservative Judicial Decisions Keep Boosting GOP Voter Suppression
Michael Monfluery, 38, who has never been eligible to vote, stands in a Miami-Dade courthouse following a special court hearing aimed at restoring the right to vote under Florida’s Amendment 4. ZAK BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.On Friday…
The West Coast Currently Has the World’s Worst Air Quality
The sky over San Francisco was orange from smoke on September 10.Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The cities that currently have the worst air quality anywhere in the world are all located along North America’s West Coast, where rampant wildfires have…
Friday Cat Blogging – 11 September 2020
You know those perfume ads that are always totally weird? The ones with vacant expressions on the models’ faces and random who-knows-what in the background? Well, this is the feline version. It’s an accidental picture, really. I had the camera on a monopod and I raised it up over the awning the cats were on.…
From Our Archives, a Radicalizing Moment for a Pioneering Organizer
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In August 1976, before Ron Chernow wrote his famous biographies—of Grant, Hamilton, and Washington—he was a freelance magazine writer in New York with a story in Mother Jones. It was our cover that month: a gripping profile of…
Today Is Also the 19th Anniversary of the Warbloggers
Eric Draper/Planet Pix via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Today is the 19th anniversary of the warbloggers. I believe that Charlie Kirk is this year’s recipient of the Steven Den Beste Memorial Blathering Award. I suppose this makes no sense to most…