Five Republican governors demand National Guard vaccination mandate exemption

The Republican governors of five states are asking (or demanding, depending how you read it) that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III exempt their states’ National Guards from the military’s …

After quashing mask, vaccine mandates, GOP governors fresh out of ideas for stemming COVID-19 spread

Watching Republican governors repeatedly put everyone’s life at risk in order to curry favor with a fringe minority of GOP voters continues to be both stunning and horrific. 

Over the weekend, …

Watch Mississippi governor give the oddest defense for his COVID-19 incompetency

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves may not have decided to go on CNN’s “State of the Union” this Sunday to embarrass himself, but his mouth seemed to have had other plans. Journalist Jake Tapper said on the …

There are 2 roads to the end of the pandemic. One's free and safe. The other is expensive and deadly

As the CDC Data Tracker shows, the United States continues to suffer from an expanding wave of COVID-19 cases attributed to the delta variant. As has been the cases for several weeks, that outbreak is …

Life is about to get even rougher for Mississippi’s unemployed

In the poorest state in the nation, people speak out against the push to cancel federal support for those out of work.

By Frances Madeson, for Capital and Main

This spring for the first time since …

Mississippi Republicans explicitly define 'normal wage levels' as below a living wage

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves followed the lead of his Republican counterparts in Montana and South Carolina by announcing the state will refuse expanded federal unemployment benefits, costing …