Young Voters Want Elizabeth Warren as Biden’s VP
Elizabeth Warren in Nashua, New Hampshire, on February 5, 2020.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Joe Biden doesn’t really have any electoral weaknesses, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. The results, released Wednesday, put Biden 14 points ahead of Trump, beating him…
Jamaal Bowman Declares Victory Over 16-Term Rep. Eliot Engel
Jamaal Bowman, Democratic candidate for NY-16, addresses supporters at a stop in Hastings-on-Hudson during his ”Bowmentum World Tour” the weekend before Election Day.Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Another year, another congressional heavyweight from New York City who is on the verge of falling…
Trump Has Made More Than 18,000 False Claims Since Taking Office. Voters May Have Finally Had Enough.
Stefani Reynolds/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Nine years after award-winning reporter Glenn Kessler became the editor and chief writer of the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” “awarding Pinocchios” has entered the vernacular of Washington insiders as a euphemism for “calling out falsehoods.” Using a sliding scale of one…
Suburban White Women Built “Tough on Crime” America. Could They Help Force Its Demise?
Protestors call for an end to racial injustice outside the Glenolden Police headquarters in Delaware Country, Pennsylvania, on June 20, 2020.Michael Candelori/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.By the end of the day on Saturday, June 6, the biggest day of nationwide protests sparked in the…
Six Members of Trump’s Tulsa Team Test Positive for COVID-19
Politico/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Six people working on logistics for President Trump’s Tulsa rally have tested positive for COVID-19, according to NBC News. Twenty-thousand people, none of whom will be required to wear masks, are expected at the rally, which will be held inside. JUST IN –…
America’s Child Care System Is in Crisis. Joe Biden Will Soon Release a Plan to Fix It.
Vice President Joe Biden greets family members of Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) during swearing-in ceremony in Washington on January 3, 2016.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Joe Biden is planning to unveil a comprehensive child care proposal in the coming weeks—part of…