Meet the Black Kingmakers Left Behind After Democrats Killed Their Iowa Caucus
Mayor Quentin Hart, left, and Pastor Frantz WhitfieldMother Jones illustration: Getty (2); ZUMA (3) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Set along the Cedar River a two hour drive north of Des Moines lies the small city of Waterloo—Iowa’s Blackest town. The river sharply divides…
I Deeply Regret Ever Wishing a Millennial Would Run for President
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy raps at the end of a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the State Fair on Saturday.Jeff Roberson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.With the 80-year-old current president and the oft-indicted former president and GOP hopeful most likely to face…
It’s Official: Trump Will Take His First Step to Renomination on the Only Federal Holiday Honoring a Black Man
Trump in August 2015.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Republican Party of Iowa announced on Saturday that they had landed on January 15, 2024 for its first-in-the-nation presidential caucus. That happens to be Martin Luther King Jr. Day: the sole federal holiday…
Republicans Declare War on Biden’s Nonexistent Plan to Grab Farmland
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Farmers, sharpen your pitchforks: President Joe Biden is coming for your land. At least, that is, according to Fox News, various Republican politicians, and the farm trade press. The outrage centers…
Pete Buttigieg Made History. Now He’s Dropping Out.
Michael Brochstein/Zuma After a meteoric rise from little-known midwestern mayor to winner of the Iowa caucuses, Pete Buttigieg is planning to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday, according to the New York Times. The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor made history as the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential…
After Iowa, Americans Should Get Used to Slow Elections
Iowa Democratic Party chair Troy Price addresses reporters four days after the caucuses.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA There were many, many problems that led to the implosion of the Iowa Democratic Party’s caucuses and the fact that it may never be known who actually won more delegates last week. And while the Democratic campaigns long ago moved on…