This Was Maybe the Most Revealing Moment From Tonight’s Debate
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Biden was challenged to say he supports “law & order.” He said it. Trump was challenged to denounce white supremacy. He did not say it. pic.twitter.com/nUysqkzKMA — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 30, 2020 Recently on our election…
Biden Tears Into Trump’s Pandemic Response
Morry Gash/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Joe Biden strongly condemned the Trump administration’s failed response to the coronavirus pandemic early in Tuesday’s presidential debate, using Trump’s infamous offhand remark about the disease’s death toll—”It is what it is”—against him. “It is what it…
Liveblogging the First Trump-Biden Debate
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Well. That was quite a show, wasn’t it? I’ve never seen a debate moderator tell a sitting president to shut up even once, let alone over and over. But Chris Wallace did. Thanks to Donald Trump’s inability to…
Biden Disinformation Is Ripping Across Facebook the Same Day It Brushed Him Off
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In advance of the first presidential debate, disinformation about Joe Biden is going massively viral on social media, just one day after the former vice president sent Facebook a letter laying out…
The Wealthy Are the Real Welfare Queens and Donald Trump Is Their King
Steve Helber/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When I was attending college in a small conservative town in Iowa, a “friend” asked me if my mom paid taxes. Taken aback by the question, I quickly muttered, “Yes…” and moved on. Only later that…
Why Donald Trump Is Facing a Financial Nightmare
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Donald Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars of debt coming due in the next few years—a cash crunch that will leave him with few good options for paying off or refinancing his…