Tag Archives: 2020-election

Earlier this week the public got a look at forged documents that Republican groups in several states sent to the government declaring then-President Donald Trump the winner of their state’s electors. Now, the attorney general in one of those states is asking federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation. Michigan …

After the nation’s capital spent weeks girding for a repeat of the insurrection, the small crowd who came to the national mall in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol on Saturday to show support for the rioters who stormed that very same building seemed like an embarrassing sideshow. While the …

WASHINGTON — Two. That’s how many Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to create a select committee that will investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, the worst assault on the heart of American democracy since the War of 1812. The remaining 200-odd House …

President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the presidential election suffered another blow Monday as the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, rejected Trump’s lawsuit. This was the court’s fourth ruling within 10 days against the president, and each ruling was 4-3 — an uncomfortably narrow margin when the health …

At the vice presidential debate Wednesday Sen. Kamala Harris delivered an indictment of the death and economic destruction unleashed by the Trump administration, which Mike Pence responded to with a litany of lies, dodges, and slippery evasions. Unlike the first presidential debate, the vice presidential debate was recognizable as such. …

This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidential election, check the calendar. Voting ends on November 3rd — and by a fluke …

Last October, standing on the front porch of a small two-story house that had seen better days, I witnessed one of the more unsettling conversations of my adult life. I had embedded with a team of community organizers in Alamance County, North Carolina, an hour’s drive west of Raleigh. This …

The wait is over. Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that he has chosen Kamala Harris to be his running mate, tapping his former primary rival for the 2020 Democratic vice presidential nomination. The daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother, Harris began her political career as San Francisco’s district …

The riotous peak of the Strokes’ get-out-the-vote concert rally with Bernie Sanders on Monday night came at the very end, when the opening notes of “New York City Cops” ripped through the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire. Within seconds, fans were storming the college hockey arena’s stage, and …

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is holding a rally in New York City on Saturday, less than two weeks after suffering a heart attack he initially said would force him to scale back his campaign schedule. In promoting the event, Sanders’ campaign has teased a special guest who will join him …