Supreme Court’s security upgrade fits the world it helped make
Mother Jonesby Pema Levy26 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court may be deferential to President Donald Trump and the legal arguments put forward by his Justice Department.
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top 81%Canada is spending billions to help its workers survive our tariffs
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen25 Aug 2026
On Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on the US in response to the Trump administration’s...
SCOTUS hands Trump a temporary win in his crusade against mail voting
Mother Jonesby Ari Berman24 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily handed President Trump a key victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting.
Maybe Trump's Iran sanctions will work this time
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen24 Aug 2026
On Monday afternoon, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US would impose all-encompassing sanctions on countries and institutions that conduct business with Iran...
It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
Mother Jonesby Rachel Santarsiero24 Aug 2026
Deadly heatwaves in May smashed records in the UK, France, Spain, and parts of North Africa. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh saw April temperatures soar to 113-122 degrees Fahrenheit.
In New York, rallygoers met the trans athlete culture wars with celebration
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen23 Aug 2026
As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a New York Liberty game Saturday to support transgender people in sports and...
The threat of human extinction will get Congress to act on AI safety…right?
Mother Jonesby Satchel Walton23 Aug 2026
As many AI researchers have been increasingly fraught with existential terror about their own creations this summer, their alarm is spreading among policymakers and the media.
Trump administration's new priorities put profits ahead of marine conservation
Mother Jonesby Johnny Sturgeon23 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
This Palantir Billionaire’s Passion Project is Criminalizing Homelessness
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz22 Aug 2026
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s policy of pushing unhoused people toward incarceration.
Federal judge strikes down Trump’s 75-Country visa ban
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz22 Aug 2026
This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for people from 75 countries because, he said, those immigrants would be more likely...
A Natalie Harp conspiracy theory (not really)
Mother Jonesby David Corn22 Aug 2026
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...
In the wake of a toxic disaster, Roseland parents still struggle to keep their children safe
Mother Jonesby Adam Mahoney22 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Ed Martin's exit suggests DOJ is getting better at political prosecutions
Mother Jonesby Dan Friedman21 Aug 2026
Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs was charactered by brash, bumbling efforts to use the department to punish...
Flock execs are taking credit for catching bad cops now
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz21 Aug 2026
Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated license plate reader cameras to some 6,000 police departments across the US, is...
Florida's GOP has a very short playbook: Call everyone a socialist
Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel21 Aug 2026
In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary, strolled onto the stage of Florida Republicans’...
Why cancer, not affordability, may be the biggest issue in Iowa’s midterms
Mother Jonesby Chris Stein21 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
To Miami's chagrin, warming seas are driving a bumper crop of sargassum
Mother Jonesby Sara Sneath21 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer.
Can digital detoxes heal us from our screen-driven lives?
Mother Jonesby Paula Mejía21 Aug 2026
I’m not sure when my smartphone began to feel like an albatross, when my unease about relying on it devolved into full-blown anxiety that I was frittering away my life on this tiny screen.
Native American leaders denounce record glyphosate spraying on national forests
Mother Jonesby Nate Halverson21 Aug 2026
As Stephen Young stepped into the woods about an hour’s drive from Lassen Peak volcano in northeast California, the forest began communicating to him in an unspoken language learned from his years...