How Are You Celebrating Thanksgiving?
Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock 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.Thanksgiving is the only holiday I really celebrate. It has everything I look for in a holiday: It’s secular, it promises good food, and it’s an annual opportunity to…
Joe Biden Wins Georgia, Donald Trump Wins North Carolina
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.The final results of the presidential election have been called: President Trump won North Carolina, and President-elect Biden won Georgia, turning the state blue for the first time in 28 years.…
The White House Just Can’t Stop Holding Superspreader Events
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.It seems like top Republicans are living on a completely different plane of reality than the rest of us. They didn’t learn from the Amy Coney Barrett nomination party that potentially…
Joe Biden Won. Now What?
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The most excruciating week in recent memory came to a climactic end on Saturday with Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. The city streets that four years ago teemed with protesters denouncing the election of Trump over Hillary…
An Election Prediction From Someone Who Has Never Been Wrong (Except in 2016, When You Were Probably Wrong Too)
This photo is old. I haven’t smoked in years. Smoking is bad. For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.There is an election tomorrow. What do you think will happen? This is not a rhetorical question. What do you think will happen? Tell me. I…
Donald Trump Promised Voters He’d Be Cruel to Immigrants. He Delivered.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.A few months ago, hunkered down in the middle of the pandemic, I spent several days paging through old newspaper stories about a new group of immigrants from Central America who were showing up at the US border…