Bernie Sanders Delivered the Best Line of the DNC’s First Night
Dennis Van Tine/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At the Democratic National Convention Monday tonight, Sen. Bernie Sanders succinctly summed up many people’s frustration at President Trump’s bungling of the coronavirus response. “Nero fiddled while Rome burned,” Sanders said. “Trump golfs.” .@BernieSanders: “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.…
Trump-Appointed Judges Are Already Handing Huge Wins to the NRA
President Donald Trump with NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre at the group’s annual meeting in 2019.Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The future looked bright for the NRA at the end of 2016. Donald Trump had just been elected president—thanks, at least in part, to the $31…
Protesters Just Took Their Fight to Save the Postal Service to the Steps of the Postmaster General’s Mansion
A group of protesters hold a demonstration in front of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s home in Greensboro, North Carolina on August 16, 2020. LOGAN CYRUS/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Demonstrators delivered their displeasure over changes at the Postal Service directly to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on…
House Just Called for the Postmaster General to Testify at an “Urgent Hearing” Later This Month
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Sunday, the House Oversight Committee urged Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to move up his scheduled testimony before the committee to August 24, nearly a month before planned, citing the “starling new revelations” about the “scope and gravity of operational…
Report: Bipartisan Group of Senators Wanted DOJ to Investigate Stephen Bannon
Gonzales /Jarle H. Moe/Avalon via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As the president’s battles over mail voting, the US Postal Service, and COVID-19 funding dominate headlines, a significant piece of news touching on alleged criminal activity by several close Trump associates and family members flew…
Trump, Down in Polls and Busy Sabotaging the Postal Service, Is Already Trying to Create Doubt About 2020 Election
Kevin Dietsch – Pool Via Cnp/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Donald Trump’s strategy of hobbling the US Postal Service to undermine mail voting comes into clearer focus, it might be easy to forget that the president is also going to great lengths…