Now We Know Facebook Made Changes to Show You Less News From Mother Jones
NurPhoto via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The Wall Street Journal today published a big story about the inner workings of Facebook’s approach to political news coverage on its site. It includes this bit: In late 2017, when Facebook tweaked its…
Early Results Are In: More People Watched Biden’s Town Hall Than Trump’s
NBC/ABC/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump held dueling town halls on different networks at the same time, it seemed safe to assume that more people would tune in for reality show presidential pyrotechnics than the…
Friday Cat Blogging – 16 October 2020
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts How have authoritarians been stopped before? Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein unpacks that and more, and we hope you’ll give her pre-election column a read because we all need to be prepared for what’s ahead. And if you agree that Mother…
People Keep Asking Who Trump Owes $400 Million To. That’s Not the Real Problem.
President Donald Trump speaks during an NBC News Town Hall, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. AP Photo/Evan Vucci For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Last month, in the first installment of its series on Trump’s taxes, the New…
Retail Spending Is Up, But Not For Everyone
Retail spending ticked upward in September, growing 1.9 percent from the previous year: We’re not even close to making up the huge loss in spending from the first few months of the pandemic lockdowns, but we probably never will. However, that downturn produced pent-up demand which is now starting to turn into higher spending levels.…
The Next Fight Over the Soul of the Democratic Party? Biden’s Chief of Staff.
Carolyn Kaster/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.If Joe Biden prevails against Donald Trump on November 3, his victory will set in motion a massive transition operation that Biden allies have been quietly building for months. Of the more than 4,000 positions a…