CNN Asked the FDA Commissioner to Correct Trump’s Lies. He Wouldn’t Do It.
FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn had at least two chances Sunday morning to correct the president’s claim that 99 percent of coronavirus cases “are totally harmless;” he declined both. “Now we have tested almost 40 million people, by so doing we show cases—99 percent of which are totally harmless,” President Trump said in his Fourth…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 4 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through July 4. The whole world seems to have taken the day off from reporting COVID-19 deaths, so nothing has really changed much since yesterday. The little upward spike in the US is gone, and we are now at 1.54 deaths per million. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is…
Meet the Nuns Who Created Their Own Climate Solutions Fund
The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tenn.John Russell/AP 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’s been five years since Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si,” the celebrated 225-page encyclical in which the…
A New Study Reveals What’s Actually in Hot Dogs. Hint: It’s Not Meat.
Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If you think you’re eating meat when you have a hot dog, I’m sorry to tell you that you’ve been getting played. We all have. What’s actually in them, then? “They’re just tubes of fat,” Tyler Rouse, a pathologist at…
Will Anyone in the Republican Party Ever Step Up?
Jette Carr/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.From the Washington Post today: President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who…
The Cleveland Indians Are Considering a Name Change
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians said Friday night that the team was considering a name change, after the National Football League’s Washington Redskins announced the same thing earlier in the day. “The recent social unrest in our community…