Southern California Jails Have Become COVID Superspreaders
FG Trade/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This week, COVID-19 cases in Orange County jails increased more than 400 percent. It’s exactly what the ACLU saw coming. In June, the ACLU, on behalf of half a…
Poverty Has Skyrocketed Since UI Benefits Ran Out
On average, the economy might be in reasonably good shape right now. But averages can hide a lot. For example, here is the number of people living in poverty: Before the pandemic, poverty was steadily declining, as you’d expect during an economic expansion. Then the pandemic hit, but thanks to the CARES Act poverty actually…
Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Begs GOP to “Call This Stuff Out and End It”
Chris Krebs.Jim Loscalzo/CNP via Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Wednesday, the day after the Electoral College selected Joe Biden as the country’s next president, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) chaired a hearing of the Senate…
Chart of the Day: Stimulus Today vs. Stimulus in 2009
Today I’d like to show you a chart you probably haven’t seen before. Here it is: The blue line shows personal expenditure plus personal saving: in other words, the total amount of money that households have available to them. The two red lines show the trends of this number starting two years before the Great…
Roasting Cable News With Top Tweets From Comedian Leslie Jones
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Thank us later, but right now you have some gifts to unwrap: 15 below, one for each day left in this dumpster fire of a year, and each, it so happens,…
Do International Travel Restrictions Halt the Spread of Pandemics?
How fast did the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world? What with planes, trains, and automobiles now commonplace, you’d think it would be pretty quick compared to past pandemics. But Michael Clemens and Thomas Ginn decided to check this out, and they found little difference over the centuries: The 1918 influenza epidemic spread faster than…