Trump Predicts Victory Over COVID-19 and Tells States to Open Faster
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Addressing the nation from the Bioprocess Innovation Center in North Carolina, President Trump on Monday painted an optimistic picture of the United States’ recovery from the coronavirus pandemic—while dismissing one of the only proven ways to mitigate the spread of the…
How Big Is Trump’s Big Prescription Drug Plan?
Kevin Drum For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last Friday President Trump unveiled four executive orders that he claimed would revolutionize the prescription drug industry. Let’s take a look at three of them: The first order clarifies that discounts under a program for low-income patients should be passed…
National Guard Whistleblower Says Feds Used Excessive Force on Peaceful Protesters
President Donald Trump outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House on June 1, 2020. Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A senior National Guard officer will tell Congress that the US Park Police engaged in “an unprovoked escalation and excessive use of…
Miami Baseball Team In Lockdown After COVID-19 Outbreak
TNS via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Who could have predicted? Less than a week in, the 2020 Major League Baseball season has already reached its first crisis point, with the Miami Marlins stuck in Philadelphia and forced to postpone their home opener in Miami on…
After Two Days of Golfing, Trump Touts His “Strong Focus” on Coronavirus
The little boy from Queens was finally set to take the mound. And not just any mound! The mound at Yankee Stadium! Generations of boys like him had only dreamed of being under the bright lights in the House that Ruth Built (an earlier version of)! But this would be his day, not theirs; his…
There Is a Lot Going on in This Trump Tweet. Let’s Try to Unravel It.
President Donald Trump returned to Twitter this afternoon with a missive jam-packed with information, yet completely opaque in their connections to each other. As you can see, there’s a lot going on here: So the Washington Post is running the Reagan Foundation, and RINO Paul Ryan is on the Board of Fox, which has been…