There’s a Wave of Democratic Insurgents Hoping to Join the Squad
Adam Vieyra / Mother Jones“All of this is brand new,” says Alex Morse, the 30-year-old mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts. He’s waving a tattooed arm in the direction of several dozen brick factories and warehouses, towering vestiges of this former mill town’s once-thriving paper industry. They appear largely vacant and in various states of disrepair, yet…
Bloomberg Is Starting His Campaign With A Big Asset—His Gun-Control Group’s Email List
Michael Bloomberg speaks at a Moms Demand Action rally in Nashua, NH, in 2018.Cheryl Senter/AP Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 Democratic race Sunday with a potent asset: The vast trove of email addresses amassed by Moms Demand Action, the nonpartisan gun control advocacy organization hosted under the umbrella of…
Fiona Hill Took Over Thursday’s Impeachment Hearing. That Was Bad for Trump.
Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s former senior director for Europe and Russia testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on November 21, 2019.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s former top Russia expert, admitted on Thursday afternoon that she had been unfair to Gordon Sondland, the ambassador…
I Couldn’t Find Anyone in Iowa Who Wants Michael Bloomberg in the Presidential Race
Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press Just when the Democratic presidential primary field was finally small enough to fit on one stage, it’s starting to expand again. In November, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media tycoon and ex-mayor of New York City, filed paperwork to enter the Alabama Democratic primary, a first step toward a presidential bid. A week…
Joe Biden Claimed to Have the Support of the Only Black Woman Senator. He Forgot About the One on Stage.
Former Vice President Joe Biden greets the audience after the Democratic Presidential Debate at Tyler Perry Studios November 20, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.Alex Wong/Getty Last week at a town hall in Las Vegas, former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden affirmed his stance against legal marijuana—it’s a gateway drug, he reasoned. Tonight, those words…
This Was the First Debate in Years That Anyone Asked About Housing
John Bazemore/AP Housing is a sleeper issue in the 2020 presidential election. In response to a nationwide affordable housing crisis, candidates have issued robust affordable housing plans, toured homeless encampments, and talked it up on the campaign trail. It’s an issue of particular salience in the current political moment. Donald Trump is the only president…