The DNC’s Launch Was Disjointed and Emotional—Like Biden

By Sam Stein, Hunter Woodall

The party wanted to make an affirmative case for electing Biden. So they built a program that resembled the clunky, antiquated, heartstrings-tugging politics of the man himself.

By Scott Bixby

“He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us,” the former first lady told a virtual DNC audience in a powerful indictment of Trump.

By Jamie Ross, Rachel Olding

The Senate Intelligence Committee describes Russia’s activity in 2016 as an “aggressive, multifaceted effort” to disrupt U.S. democracy.

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By Alexis Grenell

The hard-won gains of generations of suffragists and feminists are eroding in the midst of the pandemic, and at stake in this year’s election.

By Michael Tomasky

For one night at least a virtual convention felt, a little paradoxically, like a more real convention; less emotionally manipulative.

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She went after Trump in a way that was both eloquent and frank, relatable and empathic—all while showing how the current president lacks all of those traits.

A footsoldier in Newt’s Republican Revolution just gave his blessing to Biden.

Even the most conservative commentators on Fox’s post-convention panel had to give Michelle Obama credit for delivering such an “effective” speech. 

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 GRIMLY INEVITABLE

The president failed to address any of the actual points the former first lady made.

 THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART

Trump’s move comes on the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave all U.S. women the right to vote.

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