Payday Lenders Gave Trump Millions. Then He Helped Them Cash in on the Working Poor.

Mother Jones illustration; Bayne Stanley/ZUMA, Romeo Guzman/ZUMA This story was reported in partnership with Type Investigations , with support...

How About Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Jan. 1, 1930 - Civilian Conservation Corps Workers Reforesting Waste Land, Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Circa 1934....

America’s Immigration System Was Already Broken. Trump Made a Weapon Out of Its Shards.

Mother Jones illustration During Thursday night’s presidential debate, somewhere between lying about his administration’s response to the...

A Radical New Plan for MeToo Turns Away From “Law and Order” Feminism

Jae C. Hong/AP Not long after Brett Kavanaugh landed a lifetime gig on the Supreme Court, Mónica Ramírez started thinking about what it would take...

It’s Official. The Senate Just Confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to Replace Ruth Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

Astronaut Kate Rubins Just Voted From Space

NASA NASA astronaut Kate Rubins didn’t let a pesky thing like space travel stop her from casting a ballot in this year’s hotly contested...

Do Forests Grow Better With Our Help or Without?

Bournemouth, UK - Trees! Martin Keene/Zuma This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360  and appears here as part of our Climate...

Biden Outlines His Top Two Priorities as President in Rare Pod Save America Appearance

Sean Rayford/Getty During the Democratic 2020 primary, former Vice President Joe Biden was the only Democratic presidential hopeful who did not...

Coronavirus Cases Reach New One-Day Record, Trump Blames Media

Chip Somodevilla/Getty The United States recorded its highest one-day total of new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to tracking data...

Tackling Climate Change Seemed Expensive. Then COVID Happened.

Solar panels in Hainan, Qinghai, China. TPG/Zuma This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk...

If Trump Loves Hypersonic Missiles So Much, He Really Should Learn How To Pronounce Their Name

Win McNamee/Getty Donald Trump really seems to like hypersonic missiles, an elusive, high-speed weapon that poses problems for even the most...

What Happened to the Investigation Into the FBI’s 2016 Leaks?

Rudy Giuliani lowers his face mask as he approaches supporters of President Donald Trump on October 12 at a Trump campaign field office in...

Voter Suppression Efforts Could Be Backfiring on Republicans

Voters stand in line for the first day of early voting at the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center in Houston on October 13. Mark Felix for The...

A Latinx Evangelical Pastor Tries to Thread the Ideological Needle in the Trump Era

In this image from video, Rev. Gabriel Salguero delivers the invocation during the first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday,...

Amy Coney Barrett Is the Least Experienced Supreme Court Nominee in 30 years

Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Zuma/Images from left: Win McNamee/Zuma, Michael Reynolds/CNP/Zuma; Karen Bleier/Getty, Getty Supreme Court...

I Bet You Don’t Know What Happened On This Day 2,061 Years Ago

On this day 2,061 years ago, in 42 BC, the Roman civil war caused by Julius Caesar’s assassination culminated in Brutus’ suicide at the Battle...

Inside Colorado’s Epic Battle Over a Popular Gun Safety Law

When ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale was tackled, detained, and hospitalized late last month after his wife alleged he was violent and...

Trump Insists He Can’t Be Racist Because He Signed a Criminal Justice Bill

Julio Cortez/AP The second and final presidential debate Thursday night featured some changes that were supposed to make tonight’s event less...

No, Biden Won’t Ban Fracking

C-Span/ZUMA Wire In the middle of a heated exchange on climate change during the final presidential debate, President Donald Trump went on the...

People Are Still Dying. Trump Is Still Lying.

Morry Gash/AP President Donald Trump may not have relentlessly interrupted Joe Biden during a discussion of the coronavirus pandemic at Thursday...

Kristen Welker Asked Donald Trump About Immigration—and His Answer Was Both Racist and False

Julio Cortez/AP During Thursday night’s debate, President Donald Trump repeated one of his most disgusting lies: The Obama administration, he...

Yes, Trump Was Calmer in Debate No. 2. He’s Still a Narcissist With No Sense of Empathy.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez In the second presidential debate of 2020, the sitting president running for reelection was not bonkers. He was only...

Trump Wants the Supreme Court to “End” Obamacare. Here’s How They’d Do It.

Yuri Gripas/Zuma “I hope that they end it.” That’s what President Donald Trump told CBS this week, referring to an upcoming Supreme Court case...