Edward-Isaac Dovere

Howie Hawkins Is No Kanye West

The Green Party’s 2020 nominee tells The Ticket he’s not running as a spoiler candidate. But he insists that Kanye West’s candidacy is a “Republican dirty trick.”

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 19, 2020

Poisoned by 9/11, Killed by the Coronavirus

Joe Biden and Donald Trump campaign on a strangely normal 9/11, as the pandemic comes for survivors, too.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 11, 2020

The Deadline That Could Hand Trump the Election

A 133-year-old law creates perverse incentives for the Trump administration—and could make a chaotic postelection period even more tumultuous.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 9, 2020

‘Completely Exasperated’: Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor Confronts Kenosha

“It takes political leadership to fix this sort of moment,” Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor says. But Trump, he suggests, “is only making things worse.”

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 7, 2020

This Isn’t How Joe Biden Wanted to Win

What happens when the virtuoso retail campaigner can’t do any retail campaigning?

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 21, 2020

The Battle That Changed Kamala Harris

What the national mortgage settlement taught the freshly elected California attorney general—and how it connected her to Joe Biden

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 20, 2020

Why Joe Biden Picked Kamala Harris

Biden’s running mate is two decades younger than he is; the potential vice presidency seems like merely a first step.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 11, 2020

This Is Exactly What Susan Rice Feared

The Biden vice-presidential-nominee finalist discusses Trump’s pandemic response, Benghazi, and her family’s politics.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 8, 2020

Joe Biden Doesn’t Have a Plan for That

The Democratic nominee, just like everyone else, doesn’t know what might await him in January.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 6, 2020

When Karen Bass Went to Work in Castro’s Cuba

In 1973, Bass, who’s now a potential Biden VP pick, traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. “I didn’t have any illusions that the people in Cuba had the same freedoms I did,” she said.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 31, 2020

The Florida Democrat Who’s Been Warning About a Pandemic for Decades

Long before Donna Shalala got to Congress, she was America’s longest-serving secretary of health and human services—and Anthony Fauci’s boss.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 25, 2020

The Chaos in New York Is a Warning

The first large-scale test of mail-in voting in the pandemic has left one in five New Yorkers with their votes tossed out.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 24, 2020

Jamaal Bowman Is Ready to Join the Squad

The middle-school principal who has ousted Representative Eliot Engel thinks politics can still be fixed—and he thinks he can do it from the inside.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 17, 2020

Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass

The California representative’s low-key manner and progressive credentials could strengthen Biden’s campaign when he needs it most.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 13, 2020

The Deep South’s Only Democratic Senator Still Has Hope

The Alabama Democrat Doug Jones discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with the region’s Confederate legacy, and his hopes that this time of crisis leads to systemic change.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 11, 2020

The Marijuana Superweapon Biden Refuses to Use

Legalizing marijuana is extremely popular. So why won’t Joe Biden embrace the idea?

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 6, 2020

The Veteran Who Could Be VP

The Illinois senator and Purple Heart recipient is looking to leverage her military experience into a big promotion.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 2, 2020

What Americans Don’t Know About Joe Biden

“People know me,” the Democratic candidate for president likes to say. There’s a catch.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• June 27, 2020

Kamala Harris’s Very Open Secret

The senator from California seems like the obvious choice to be Joe Biden’s running mate. So why is she keeping mum about her thinking?

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• June 26, 2020

She Wanted to Be a Republican President. She’s Voting for Biden.

The former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina tells The Ticket that she plans to vote for Joe Biden.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• June 25, 2020