Dems Say Trump Administration Is Covering Up Intel on Ongoing Russian Election Interference
Russian President Vladimir Putin presents a World Cup soccer ball to President Donald Trump on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki. Kremlin Pool via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Top Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of hiding from the public evidence that the Russian government is…
The GOP Plan to Slash Unemployment Benefits Puts the Whole Economic Recovery at Risk
Closed stores line the streets of New York City’s Times Square.Niyi Fote/Zumapress For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.From her apartment in New Jersey, Elise Nussbaum has spent the past four months counseling dozens of people all over the country—in New York, California, Texas, and beyond—about their money,…
Remember Leaving Twitter Forever for All of 2 Minutes? Get Back on for Ella Fitzgerald and the Armstrong House.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I’m a latecomer to the microblogging and social networking service Twitter but firmly aware that all the trappings and opportunity costs are real—an attentional quicksand, with bargain-bin goodies and top-shelf prizes. I fully support taking a clean break, never again to look…
Friday Cat Blogging – 24 July 2020
Here is Hopper staring at a nearby hummingbird that’s humming away above her. She wants the hummingbird, but unlike my mother’s kittens, with their spring steel legs, she just doesn’t have the leaping ability to be any danger to the local fauna. Except for lizards, that is, who have their tails bitten off with considerable…
Which Is Better: Lots of Cheap, Lousy COVID-19 Tests or a Few Really Good Tests?
Which is better: a highly accurate PCR test for the coronavirus or a cheap strip test that’s not especially accurate at low virus loads? Alex Tabarrok compares the two, but his comparison has lots of words and stuff and you might not bother reading it. So I’d like to present you with a simplified version:…
A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima’s Horror. White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again.
Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, center, looks on as President Harry Truman holds up the Japanese surrender papers at the White House, Sept. 7, 1945. AP photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This article is adapted from The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop…