Election Law Ended Up In a Pretty Good Place in 2020
Election law guru Rick Hasen says it’s good news that Donald Trump has lost virtually every court challenge in his doomed effort to overturn the 2020 election results. But there’s also bad news: Even as Mr. Trump has lost most of his postelection lawsuits, he and his allies had a good bit of success before…
David Dinkins Was a Political Victim of New York City Crime
The death of former New York City mayor David Dinkins prompts me to show you a couple of charts. First off, here is violent crime in New York City: In hindsight, this chart makes it obvious that crime was dropping during Dinkins’ entire term as mayor, well before Giuliani won the 1993 mayoral election. Violent…
The Biden Administration Must Beat Viral Misinformation Influencers at Their Own Game
Mother Jones illustration 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.Jessica Malaty Rivera is a microbiologist and an infectious disease expert who specializes in explaining complex scientific concepts to the general public. Since the beginning of the pandemic,…
What’s Next for the #Resistance Now That They Don’t Have Trump to Kick Around Anymore?
Melinda Beck 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.“You’ll see the signs :),” Megan Bartlett had texted me as I looked for her house in Geneva, Illinois, a 20,000-person town about an hour west of Chicago. The…
Defund-Police Organizers to Biden: “We’re Not Going Away”
A protester in Brooklyn in June Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images 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.On the Saturday after Election Day, not long after media outlets announced the projected winner of the presidential race, Black…
Solar Companies Ask Biden to Reverse Trump’s Biggest Blow to the Industry
A 2 megawatt DTE Energy solar installation built on formerly vacant land in Detroit, Michigan.Jim West/Zuma 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.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate…