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"If Andrew Bailey can do this much damage in Missouri, imagine what he’ll do with federal power."| Mother Jones
It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda. The list of issues angering their constituents is long—everything from the Trump-backed cuts to […]| Mother Jones
As the nation reels from last week’s horrific school shooting in Minnesota, authorities in Florida seem to be doing everything in their power to re-traumatize a community victimized by a different mass attack. That now includes arresting one protester, apparently for leaving temporary chalk footprints in a crosswalk that has become a flashpoint in Republican […]| Mother Jones
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. It’s against […]| Mother Jones
From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history. On this week’s Reveal, reporter Heath Druzin hikes deep into Yellowstone National Park’s backcountry with biologist Doug Smith, who helped reintroduce wolves to the park 30 years […]| Mother Jones
A federal appeals court on Friday invalidated vast portions of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, ruling that the president lacked the authority to invoke an emergency law to unleash tariffs on nearly all goods from nearly every country importing to the United States. The ruling, which upholds a lower court’s opinion, concluded that Trump unlawfully […]| Mother Jones
This week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Susan Monarez was suddenly fired after she allegedly refused to follow Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s directives on immunizations. Top CDC officials resigned in protest and were escorted from the agency’s Atlanta headquarters. One of those officials was Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, […]| Mother Jones
When President Donald Trump tries to defend his mass deportation agenda, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants are entering the United States from “mental institutions and insane asylums.” When he wants to insult people—like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Mo.), or former Vice President Kamala Harris—he calls them “low IQ,” “deranged,” and […]| Mother Jones
"If Andrew Bailey can do this much damage in Missouri, imagine what he’ll do with federal power."| Mother Jones
How often are Native children adopted by non-Native families? Here's one story of how that happens.| Mother Jones
Why are they bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight?| Mother Jones
Rep. Nicole Collier has sued the state legislature for unlawful imprisonment.| Mother Jones
“Often, the people who have been on the land the longest are the first to get displaced,”| Mother Jones
And hope to gobble up some land near you.| Mother Jones
Trump-friendly lawmakers wrote one of the harshest bans anywhere—with predictable results.| Mother Jones
“At such a critical stage, access to affordable, reliable electricity is paramount."| Mother Jones
Texas Democrat James Talarico on bomb threats, rigged elections, and life on the run.| Mother Jones
Form an undisclosed location, they emphasized the devastating effects of the proposed maps on democracy.| Mother Jones
There’s a shameless stunt at the heart of the Texas redistricting fight. It’s not the quorum-break.| Mother Jones
Advocates have opened a new path to block access to abortion-inducing drugs.| Mother Jones
The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.| Mother Jones
"We know it isn't just about healthcare. It's about your dignity."| Mother Jones
After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory.| Mother Jones
The Supreme Court's conservative majority laid the groundwork for extreme partisan gerrymandering.| Mother Jones
Conspiracy theorists allege that there's only one way a Republican Senate candidate could possibly lose in a state Trump won: election fraud.| Mother Jones
The suspect's motives remain unclear, but "there clearly was some through line with abortion," Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday.| Mother Jones
New revelation makes "a mockery of the oil industry’s denial of basic climate science decades later.”| Mother Jones
Pregnancy Justice's legal director, Karen Thompson, warns: "We are in dangerous territory. This is our reality now."| Mother Jones
An Everglades airstrip is being readied for ICE| Mother Jones
"They say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, okay?”| Mother Jones
I read the minutes of the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board so you don’t have to.| Mother Jones
From coast to coast, Americans marched with one message.| Mother Jones
A no-guardrails version has become a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda.| Mother Jones
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.| Mother Jones
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.| Mother Jones
At least 8 million people would lose coverage, with hundreds of billions slashed from the federal health budget.| Mother Jones
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.| Mother Jones
"Nowhere does it actually say what will happen to anyone who replies."| Mother Jones
“This is a ‘destroy the village in order to save it’ approach," says a former senior USAID appointee.| Mother Jones
What could possibly go wrong with giving the tech mogul access to federal payments?| Mother Jones
Meet the Arizona activists fighting to mobilize one tribal nation.| Mother Jones
Searching for relevance, a fresh cast of characters joins a very old story.| Mother Jones
In a provocative piece, the American Indian Movement activist lashed out at European "death culture" and the left.| Mother Jones
And why it's making her a flash point in the Democratic Party.| Mother Jones
"Vote-by-mail simply does not work in Native American communities."| Mother Jones
She defended California's death penalty from a court ruling and resisted reinvestigating a troubled capital case.| Mother Jones
We grabbed a few of our favorites. You're welcome.| Mother Jones
The GOP pick for VP has repeatedly criticized women without biological children as "childless cat ladies." Now, they're pouncing on him.| Mother Jones
As conspiracy theories flourish, context is missing on Trump's injury, the shooter's motive, and more.| Mother Jones
The influencers may seem harmless—until you consider them amid the erosion of women's rights.| Mother Jones
His recent biblical reference has long been used by the Israeli far right to justify killing Palestinians.| Mother Jones
The full data set from our in-depth investigation into mass shootings.| Mother Jones
This is what happened when MAGA people thought I was one of them.| Mother Jones
Vaccination levels in the county with the outbreak aren't high enough to protect them.| Mother Jones
Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans.| Mother Jones
How lawyers used junk science to explain away stun-gun deaths.| Mother Jones
