Chart of the Day: How Much Do You Hate the Other Party?
I don’t remember where I saw this, but a few days ago I came across a recent study that compares the US to other countries on the question of how much we hate the other political party. The authors created an overall metric for “affective polarization,” but I think it’s more interesting to break it…
Want to Fight the Zombie Fire Apocalypse? Weaponize Math.
A local activist extinguishes a peat fire near a village outside of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk in September 2020.Alexander Nemenov/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The largest…
Flailing Trump Campaign Shares Doctored Image of a 2000 Newspaper to Dispute Biden’s Victory
Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The Trump campaign’s latest attempt to deny President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is to claim that the media can’t call the race, and therefore it’s not over. To make this point, on Sunday the campaign’s spokesperson released…
Joe Biden Begins to Spell Out What He’ll Do Immediately When He Gets to the White House
President-elect Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Chase Center on November 07, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Much of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-environment, climate change-denying, pro-police, anti-civil rights agenda—to name some of its prominent…
George W. Bush Congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden
Former President George W. Bush speaks during the funeral service of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) at Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 30, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Former President George W. Bush on Sunday…
Survey Says: Trump Will Start a TV Network
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