Hot Dogs, Medical Supplies, and Goggles—The DC Streets Are Filled With Donations for Protesters
Reggie Guy distributing free hot dogs.Will Peischel/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Thursday afternoon, H St. in downtown Washington, DC—which only days before had been the scene of a violent encounter between law enforcement and protesters—had become a kind of open market. Tents popped up…
Trump Claims the US Has “Prevailed” on Testing, Then Storms Out of the Rose Garden
Drew Angerer/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This afternoon, President Donald Trump held a briefing in the White House Rose Garden to trumpet the expansion of the United States’ coronavirus testing capacity—and to double down on the inaccurate claim that anyone who wants to get a coronavirus…
Trump’s Commerce Department Just Hired a Lawyer With Ties to White Nationalists
Jared Taylor, second from left, appears alongside Richard Spencer and other white nationalists during a panel in 2016. Taylor was represented in court by attorney Adam Candeub, a new hire in the Commerce Department.Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump…
Black People Are Dying From COVID-19 at Higher Rates Because Racism Is a Preexisting Condition
Erica Harris and her daughter Jordan wear their protective masks as they walk home on Chicago’s South Side.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A few weeks ago, a thought woke Camara Jones up in the middle of the night. It was about the coronavirus. That’s…
Not Even the Head of a National Asian American GOP Group Is Okay With Trump Saying “Chinese Virus”
A close up of President Donald J. Trumps notes shows where Corona was crossed and replaced with Chinese Virus during a March 19 press briefing.The Washington Post via Getty Images On Wednesday, PBS NewsHour‘s Yamiche Alcindor asked President Donald Trump if his use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to Covid-19 puts Asian Americans at…
South Carolina Was Supposed to Give Black Issues a Spotlight. The Primary Failed Them.
Joe Biden arrives for a campaign rally Thursday at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Scott Olson/Getty Images The Forest Lake Country Club, a white facade on a picturesque lake just north of Columbia, South Carolina, has welcomed the state capital’s white elite for nearly 100 years. Among the members of this bastion of…