Hillary Clinton Assails Trump and Implores Voters to Turn Out for Joe Biden
Democratic National Convention/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Four years after she accepted the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the case for electing Joe Biden—while reminding viewers that Donald Trump never should have been president in the first place. “Remember back…
Donald Trump Just Responded to a Reporter’s Question about QAnon in the Most Irresponsible Way
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hours after Facebook announced a crackdown on QAnon, President Trump used his evening press conference to fan the right-wing conspiracy theory’s flames. “I don’t know much about the movement—other than I understand that they like me very much,” Trump said…
Political Conventions Are Now Literally Party Advertisements
Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal/POOL via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For the past few decades all the old guard political reporters have bemoaned the fact that political conventions serve no real purpose anymore and are basically just prime time ads for the political parties. Well guess…
Jill Biden’s Speech at the DNC Gets Personal
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Jill Biden got personal at the Democratic National Convention tonight, shortly after her husband accepted his party’s nomination for president. Speaking from an empty classroom, Biden noted, “So many classrooms are quiet right now. The playgrounds are still. But if you listen…
Hearing Health Care Activist Ady Barkan Was One of the Night’s Most Moving Moments
Ady Barkan, a health care activist who was diagnosed with the terminal neurodegenerative disease ALS four years ago, gave one of the most moving speeches of the second night of the Democratic National Convention. After Barkan’s diagnosis in 2016, President Donald Trump signed a tax bill that threatened Barkan’s health insurance. Barkan traveled to Washington,…
Joe Biden Is Officially Nominated by Jacquelyn Brittany
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday evening, Jacquelyn Brittany, a security guard at the New York Times, nominated Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention. “I take powerful people up in my elevator all the time,” Brittany said in her nomination message. “When they get off,…