Tulsi Gabbard’s Dangerous Disinformation Campaign Against America – Mother Jones
The DNI shows how far she'll go to politicize intelligence to help Donald Trump.| Mother Jones
The DNI shows how far she'll go to politicize intelligence to help Donald Trump.| Mother Jones
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. The appointment of Bari Weiss, the former New York Times opinion writer […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Each year, the Sweeney Center for Public Policy at Rowan University in New Jersey hosts a conference on the state’s current and future energy landscape. In 2023 and 2024, the gatherings focused heavily on the rapidly accelerating development of […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of June 2, 2025, the city council meeting in Pasco, Washington, was winding down when Councilor Leo Perales piped up from his seat on the wood-trimmed dais. “I know we’ve talked about fluoride a few times,” […]| Mother Jones
Anti-abortion advocates haven’t just played key roles in rolling back abortion rights in recent years. They also helped tank President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promise to make in vitro fertilization free. That’s according to a new report published Saturday in Politico, which reveals that anti-abortion activists—some of whom are opposed to IVF because it involves discarding […]| Mother Jones
Last month, Donald Trump’s administration assured the US Supreme Court that the president’s massive tariffs were intended to address an “unusual and extraordinary threat” and were “essential to the country’s future.” This weekend, Trump announced that he was jacking up tariffs on Canadian goods by another 10 percent—because he was angry about a television ad […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of […]| Mother Jones
It’s been a week since an estimated 7 million people across 50 US states and the District of Columbia—and countless others all over the world—took part in the “No Kings” protests to speak up against the Trump administration’s policies and his leadership’s slide into authoritarianism. From Washington, DC, to Oakland, California, protesters proudly waved American […]| Mother Jones
On Friday, the Trump administration escalated its military presence in the Caribbean and South America by announcing the deployment of an aircraft carrier group to the region. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the green light to send the USS Gerald R. Ford—described by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform […]| Mother Jones
Even if the government reopens, thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, families won't see help for a while.| Mother Jones
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?| Mother Jones
Democrats don't need conspiracy theories. There are more than enough real Trump scandals.| Mother Jones
The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.| Mother Jones
No unit of the hard-hit Energy Department has been singled out quit like the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.| Mother Jones
"Time to pull out the trumpet."| Mother Jones
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.| Mother Jones
Ever since a government shutdown first started to seem like a real possibility, President Donald Trump has been threatening to use an impasse on Capitol Hill as a pretext to go after the people and institutions he doesn’t like. His administration has moved to kill New York City’s biggest infrastructure project, announced his intent to […]| Mother Jones
Mackenson Remy didn’t plan to bypass security when he drove into the parking lot of a factory in Greeley, Colorado. He’d never been there before. All he knew was this place had jobs—lots of jobs. Remy is originally from Haiti, and in 2023, he’d been making TikTok videos about job openings in the area for […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, the astronomer Carl Sagan warned that the United States was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire. Near the start of their new book, Science Under Siege: How […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has vetoed three bills that aimed to boost the use of virtual power plants, undermining an opportunity to decrease the state’s fast-rising electricity costs and increase its grid reliability. On Friday, Newsom vetoed AB 44, AB 740, and SB 541, […]| Mother Jones
For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. Earlier this year, the […]| Mother Jones
In early September, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took the podium at a Tampa news conference to make an unprecedented announcement: He planned to eliminate “all vaccine mandates” in the state, he told the crowd. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” “Who am I, as a man standing […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2022, John Stolz got a phone call asking for his help. This request—one of many the Duquesne University professor has fielded—came from the Center for Coalfield Justice, an environmental nonprofit in […]| Mother Jones
As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress’ failure to pass a continuing resolution which would fund the government for around two more months—with hundreds of thousands of workers going unpaid, federal loans to small businesses on hold, and the future of SNAP benefits at risk for coming months […]| Mother Jones
The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.| Mother Jones
A new book takes on the quick rise—and the inequities—of paying health costs through sites like GoFundMe.| Mother Jones
Silicon valley, one of the country's biggest recipients of government largesse, would like to bite the hand that feeds it. Paulina Borsook, a Wired magazine contributing writer, reports on the growth of cyberlibertarianism.| Mother Jones
One voting rights group called it a “MAGA fever dream.”| Mother Jones
Will the United States abandon lifesaving efforts to research and fight the virus?| Mother Jones
How environmental laws are used to kill climate-friendly development.| Mother Jones
"It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."| Mother Jones
"If Andrew Bailey can do this much damage in Missouri, imagine what he’ll do with federal power."| 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
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
Pregnancy Justice's legal director, Karen Thompson, warns: "We are in dangerous territory. This is our reality now."| 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
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
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
