Barack Obama Doesn’t Think Voting Will Make the Country Perfect. He Wants You to Do It Anyway.
Matt Slocum/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This afternoon, Barack Obama stopped by Philadelphia, the largest city in that crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, to urge people to elect his former vice president, Joe Biden, to the highest office in the land. At…
US Chess Champion Hikaru Nakamura Challenges Barack Obama to a Benefit Match for Team Biden
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP; Erin Stubblefield/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.It was only a matter of time before Hikaru Nakamura, the US chess champion and the world’s best and fastest blitz player, challenged former President Obama to a benefit match for the Biden…
San Quentin Is Ordered to Downsize to Protect Prisoners From COVID-19
Tents were erected in the San Quentin yard to house prisoners during the COVID-19 outbreakJustin Sullivan/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The California prison that was the site of one of the most severe COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States must cut its…
How the Most Toxic, Notorious Pro-Trump Online Community Tricked Reddit and Got Back Online
Mother Jones illustration For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.By the time Reddit banned r/The_Donald in June, the community had become one of the most notorious in the platform’s history. The pro-Trump message board, home to a noxious group of his supporters, wasn’t necessarily…
“We Shall Overcome”: Raphael Warnock’s (Not-So-Long-Shot) Bid to Be Georgia’s First Black Senator
Mother Jones illustration; Zuma; Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.“This is the day that the Lord has made. We have come to rejoice and be glad in it,” says the Reverend Raphael Warnock during his October 4 sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church.…
“He Was Throwing Off Cash”: How an International Fugitive Tried to Influence Trump’s Swamp
Jho Low on April 23, 2015, at the launch of the Global Daily website in WashingtonStuart Ramson/Invision for the United Nations Foundation/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In 2017, Jho Low was hiring. Low—a businessman suspected of acting as a key architect in…