Russia Is Boosting Trump’s War on Mail Voting with a Disinformation Campaign
Alexei Nikolsky/TASS via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.A new intelligence report produced by the Department of Homeland Security predicts the Russian government will “continue amplifying criticisms of vote-by-mail and shifting voting processes amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine public trust…
A Virtual Dinner Party With Anand Giridharadas, Free and Open to All
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Author, MSNBC analyst, Time editor, no fan of plutocracy, and possessor of one of the most stylishly written, justice-driven Twitter accounts Anand Giridharadas is inviting you to dinner. Join him tomorrow, Friday, for food and drinks. It’s part…
How Broken Do You Have to Be to Buy a Trump Book?
Brian Cahn/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In her forthcoming memoir, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shares a surreal moment. President Trump, upon catching the…
David Corn Breaks Down the Full Trump “Hot-Mic” Tape, Moment By Moment
Last week, during the Hatch Act-shattering Republican National Convention, my colleague David Corn published a new hot-mic video of Donald Trump: a 13-minute conversation between Trump and his lawyer, captured during a break between videotaped depositions for the 2015 fraud lawsuit against Trump University. As David wrote: Trump boasted about how his company threatened the…
Trump’s Law-and-Order Harangues Are About More Than Just Law-and-Order
For the past several weeks Donald Trump has been trying to whip his base into a frenzy over all the “Democrat run” cities that are going up in flames. This is generally viewed as part of his law-and-order campaign spiel, with a side order of racial dog whistling, but it seems a little quixotic since,…
Deficit Set to Become Big Problem on November 4th
The Congressional Budget Office issued a report this week warning that federal debt would soon be higher than our annual GDP: There’s no need to worry about this, though. Joe Biden looks like a good bet to win the presidential election, and if he does then the federal deficit will once again become our nation’s…