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Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel27d ago
Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigrant detention camp erected in the Florida Everglades last year, routinely held detainees in “small metal enclosures” with just 18 square feet of floor space...
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz27d ago
New York is leading a 22-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully expanding the “public charge” rules that restrict entry to the United States for immigrants deemed likely to...
Mother Jonesby Lisa Armstrong28d ago
Michael Premo was gasping for air. It was January 6, 2021, and Premo and his partner, fellow filmmaker Rachel Falcone, were crushed against a wall in the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the US...
Mother Jonesby Michael Mechanic28d ago
In January 2022, at an event hosted by one of the scores of local “election integrity” groups inspired by Donald Trump’s fraudulent assertion that voter fraud had cost him the 2020 election...
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz28d ago
While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate...
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz28d ago
President Donald Trump has a favorite justification for everything he does: “It’s a national security matter.” After 9/11, the United States built a vast, powerful, and generally unchecked national...
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen29d ago
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the heavyweight college football matchup between Texas and Ohio State, during an...
Mother Jonesby Jim Robbins12 Sept 2026
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Mother Jonesby Michael Mechanic11 Sept 2026
At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a “fiercly nonpartisan” nonprofit...
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen11 Sept 2026
FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be very bad at his job. This was confirmed yet again on Thursday, when national security journalist Seth Hettena found documents showing Patel instructing his team...
Mother Jonesby Tim Murphy11 Sept 2026
What do Republican officials think of the nation’s roughly 4.5 million Muslims? No need to ask—they’ll just tell you. “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” says Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee.
Mother Jonesby David Corn11 Sept 2026
It’s been 25 years since the horrific attacks of 9/11. In the immediate aftermath, there was a hope that this nightmare would compel the nation to adopt a more serious approach to politics and...
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz11 Sept 2026
Anyone who’s camped out at a folk music festival and has been woken up at 2 a.m. by a blaringly rendered version of “Bella Ciao” knows that trumpet players are terrorists.
Mother Jonesby Wyatt Myskow11 Sept 2026
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen10 Sept 2026
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked Hugging Face, another AI startup, during internal testing.
Mother Jonesby Satchel Walton10 Sept 2026
On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the AI firm Anthropic—saying that both that company and OpenAI, his previous employer, were “gambling with our lives” by developing...
Mother Jonesby Inae Oh10 Sept 2026
The year is 2026, and by now, you know, with clarity, that Donald Trump is a brazen liar with an unusually impressive record of promising free cash—only to rarely ever fulfill those lofty pledges.
Mother Jonesby Anna Merlan10 Sept 2026
On Sunday, the German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) won a resounding—and disturbing—victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Mother Jonesby David Corn10 Sept 2026
In July 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, then–director of national intelligence, strode into the White House briefing room to press the case that Barack Obama had mounted a “treasonous conspiracy.” Days...
Mother Jonesby Amy Green10 Sept 2026
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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