The US Monkeypox Response Is Not Going Well. Did We Learn Nothing From Covid?
Bill O’Leary/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Two months after monkeypox reemerged in the United States this year, health officials and physicians are reporting delays and limited availability of tests, vaccines, and treatments against the virus. For many working in healthcare,…
From Texas to Arizona, the GOP Border “Invasion” Argument Keeps Getting Crazier
National Guardsmen stands watch over a fence near the International bridge in Del Rio, Texas.Eric Gay/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.During a press conference on July 5, several county officials from Texas gathered to pray, read the Pledge of Allegiance,…
Elizabeth Warren Slams “Foreign Influence” at Liberal-Leaning Think Tank
Then-Brookings Institution President John Allen speaking at an event in October 2018. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Sen. Elizabeth Warren is taking aim at the Brooking Institution, a bastion of Washington’s Democratic establishment. In a letter Friday, the Massachusetts firebrand…
Don’t Fall into the Collusion Trap on Trump and January 6
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Here we go again. Watching the recent coverage of the January 6 investigation, I felt a stab of deja vu. As the House committee probing the insurrectionist riot held a hearing this week that…
Excessive Wealth Is a “Disorder” That Some 1 Percenters Want to Cure
Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Joe. Friggin. Manchin. The odds weren’t good for Congress to make the mega-wealthy pay more taxes, but the Democratic senator from West Virginia killed off any chance of it on Thursday, declaring that he wouldn’t…
How Close to Death Does a Person Have to Be to Qualify for an Abortion Ban Exemption?
Sam Edwards/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.It’s a foregone conclusion that the Democrats’ bill to restore abortion rights will fail in the Senate in the coming days, just as it failed in May and in February before that. The Women’s…