Ed Markey Beats Joe Kennedy to Keep His Senate Seat
Steven Senne/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.For the last three years, the left has trained their sights on ousting incumbent Democrats who stand in the way of their liberal agenda. But in the Massachusetts Senate race, they were forced to defend their…
Richard Neal Fends Off Progressive Primary Challenger Alex Morse
Rep. Richard E. NealDon Treeger/The Republican/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In an election cycle full of high-profile Democratic primary challenges, none of them had been as prized to progressives as the one facing House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.). But on Tuesday…
Republicans at the Convention Did Not Lay Out a Plan for Climate Change—Much Less Acknowledge It
The president’s son, Eric Trump.RNC Video Feed/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The Republican National Convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has…
Ivanka Trump’s RNC Speech Was a Preview of the Future
August 27, 2020, USA: In this image from the Republican National Convention video feed, First Daughter and Advisor to the President IVANKA TRUMP makes remarks introducing her father, United States President Donald J. Trump the fourth and final day of the convention on Thursday. (Credit Image: © RNC Video Feed/POOL via ZUMA Wire) For indispensable…
Black Lives Don’t Matter to Black Lives Matter, Says Rudy Giuliani
July 1, 2020, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer to United States President Donald J. Trump, speaks to members of the media following a television interview with One America News Network outside the White House in Washington. (Credit Image: © Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Wire) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis…
Is Anyone Else Having End Times Anxiety? Because, Hoo Boy!
Burnt out wreckage is seen along Pleasants Creek Road where the LNU Lightning complex fire tore through late last week, photographed on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 in Vacaville, CA Kent Nishimura/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I cannot sleep; at night, my mind cycles through an Arya…