This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. On Oct. 10, 2017, a fresh-faced J.D. Vance was direct and pragmatic about America’s energy future when asked whether the U.S. “should protect the coal and steel industries.” The then-33-year-old author of Hillbilly Elegy …
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A week after a shooter injured Donald Trump’s ear at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the former president’s campaign released the first public update on his health. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who served as Trump’s physician in the White House, wrote in a letter that the would-be assassin’s bullet came …
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After months of conspicuous absence from public life, former First Lady Melania Trump made a rare appearance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday. In a break with longstanding precedent among former first ladies and the wives of presidential hopefuls, Melania did not address the convention — as she did …
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MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump — who left the White House only after an unprecedented campaign to undermine the results of his 2020 election defeat, culminating in a deadly insurgency at the U.S. Capitol — has completed one of the most disturbing comeback stories in American politics, accepting the …
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George Washington could tell a lie, Taft didn’t get stuck in the bath, and Mary Lincoln never used Todd, her maiden name, after marriage. As a presidential historian, I love eviscerating falsehoods with an arsenal of contradictory evidence. I start by naming the false witness, identifying his motivations, methodically trace …
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In his big debut at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance pitched the convention crowd on the faux-populist schtick he’s been honing since leaving his venture capital job in Silicon Valley to run for Senate in the Rust Belt. “Wall Street barons crashed the …
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The Republican National Convention ended with a lengthy, divisive, and exhausting speech from Donald Trump — now the official GOP 2024 nominee. For Democrats, the dawn brings a reminder that questions around their own presumptive candidate are far from settled. Shortly after the former president’s speech ended, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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It’s been weeks since President Joe Biden’s calamitous debate performance against Donald Trump. Despite his campaign’s best efforts, concerns about his health and mental acuity have not been put to rest, and a host of Democratic lawmakers, celebrities, donors, and media personalities have called for him to drop out of …
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Vice President Kamala Harris will speak with major Democratic donors in a call to discuss what sources described to The New York Times by two sources as “urgent, emerging” issues related to the 2024 campaign. According to an email reviewed by the Times, Reid Hoffman — a venture capitalist and …
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MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump’s “big tent” convention includes the ringleader of the right’s most notorious circus. Rolling Stone ran into Clay Clark, the organizer of the conspiratorial, Christian nationalist road show known as ReAwaken America Tour, eating lunch near the security perimeter for the RNC convention. Clark — whose roving …
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