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The Ceasefire Deal Makes It Obvious: Joe Biden Failed

The Ceasefire Deal Makes It Obvious: Joe Biden Failed

President Joe Biden meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in July. Andrew Harnik/Getty In the early days of the...

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Noah Lanard

Warning to Whistleblowers: “We Are Back in the Days of the Red Scare”

Warning to Whistleblowers: “We Are Back in the Days of the Red Scare”

Tyler Comrie Government employees who report possible malfeasance are almost certain to be targeted by the second Trump administration. Mark Zaid is...

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Abby Vesoulis

Is the EPA Obligated to Regulate Greenhouse Gases? Trump’s Pick Can’t Say.

Is the EPA Obligated to Regulate Greenhouse Gases? Trump’s Pick Can’t Say.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin,...

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Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Working on California’s Incarcerated Fire Crews: “It Is Kind of Like You’re a Slave”

Working on California’s Incarcerated Fire Crews: “It Is Kind of Like You’re a Slave”

Incarcerated firefighters have helped battle wildfires in Los Angeles County driven by intense Santa Ana winds. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA...

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Sam Levin

Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban

Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban

A TikTok backer streaming outside the Supreme Court on January 10. Michael Brochstein/Zuma The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a ban on TikTok to...

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Pema Levy And Patrick Caldwell

Biden Makes History by Commuting 4,000 Total Sentences in Last Days in Office

Biden Makes History by Commuting 4,000 Total Sentences in Last Days in Office

President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House as he gives his farewell address. Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP This morning President...

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Melvis Acosta

Key Democrats Vote for Increasing Mandatory Detention of Immigrants

On Friday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would significantly increase the number of undocumented immigrants subject to mandatory...

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Noah Lanard

Trump’s Next Attacks on Abortion Rights Will Be More Insidious Than a Ban

Trump’s Next Attacks on Abortion Rights Will Be More Insidious Than a Ban

Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash During his campaign, incoming president Donald Trump did everything possible to muddy his record on abortion...

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Madison Pauly

Trump’s White House Return and the Republican Congress Put DC Abortion Access at Risk

Trump’s White House Return and the Republican Congress Put DC Abortion Access at Risk

Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Zuma; Andi Rice/CNP/Zuma Washington, DC stands out as a refuge for reproductive rights: Unlike the 20-plus states that have...

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Abby Vesoulis

How Trump’s Return Is Pushing the Media to Self-Censor

How Trump’s Return Is Pushing the Media to Self-Censor

Tyler Comrie Two days before Donald Trump was re-elected president, he told rallygoers that he wouldn’t mind if somebody shot through a crowd of...

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Julianne Mcshane

Despite What You May Have Heard, Los Angeles Has Not Become ‘The Purge’

Despite What You May Have Heard, Los Angeles Has Not Become ‘The Purge’

Volunteers distribute food and relief supplies in Echo Park. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/Zuma Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January...

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Anna Merlan

Some Landlords Are Trying to Profit From the Misfortune of Los Angelenos

Some Landlords Are Trying to Profit From the Misfortune of Los Angelenos

A house is engulfed by flames in Pacific Palisades. Qiu Chen/Xinhua/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is...

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Kylie Mohr

Drug War Victims Have Been Incarcerated for Decades. Biden Has Just Days to Free Them.

Drug War Victims Have Been Incarcerated for Decades. Biden Has Just Days to Free Them.

A demonstrator waves a flag with marijuana leaves outside of the White House in 2016 Jose Luis Magana/AP President Joe Biden is running out of...

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Melvis Acosta

Inside the RFK Jr.-Alex Jones Bromance

Inside the RFK Jr.-Alex Jones Bromance

Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. set out in late 2021 to hawk a...

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Dan Friedman

As Los Angeles Fires Burn, Community Organizers Race to Prevent a Wave of Evictions

As Los Angeles Fires Burn, Community Organizers Race to Prevent a Wave of Evictions

A grieving man named John looking at what used to be his mobile home in Pacific Palisades Mobile Home park on Pacific Coast Hwy. Daniel Ecoff/Zuma...

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Alex Nguyen

What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats

What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats

Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP; Getty The president-elect—who pushed for an invasion of Mexico during his first term—has spent the...

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Tim Murphy

Pam Bondi Is “Not Familiar With That Statement”

Pam Bondi Is “Not Familiar With That Statement”

Pam Bondi appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP At her confirmation hearing Wednesday, Pam Bondi...

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Dan Friedman

A GOP Congressman’s Campaign Finance Problem Just Got Worse

A GOP Congressman’s Campaign Finance Problem Just Got Worse

Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP There are holes in Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles’ personal story. Some have been...

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Noah Lanard

After Tens of Thousands of Dead, Israel and Hamas Agree to a Ceasefire

After Tens of Thousands of Dead, Israel and Hamas Agree to a Ceasefire

As ceasefire details were being finalized on January 14th, 2025, Palestinians in Gaza City inspected the rubble of a building bombed by an Israeli...

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Sophie Hurwitz

What Do the Los Angeles Fires Mean for Local Wildlife?

What Do the Los Angeles Fires Mean for Local Wildlife?

A family of deer at the scorched Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades, January 9, 2025. Apu Gomes/Getty This story was originally published...

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Kylie Mohr

Trump’s Energy Pick Concedes Climate Change is a “Real Issue”

Trump’s Energy Pick Concedes Climate Change is a “Real Issue”

Rod Lamkey Jr./AP Chris Wright, the fracking company CEO who Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Energy and who had previously claimed...

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Artis Curiskis

Republicans Attempt Power Grab in Minnesota

Republicans Attempt Power Grab in Minnesota

Democratic House seats remain empty in protest as Republican House members are sworn in at the beginning of the state legislative session in St....

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Abby Vesoulis

Kentucky Judge Guts Biden’s Title IX Rules So Trump Doesn’t Have To

Kentucky Judge Guts Biden’s Title IX Rules So Trump Doesn’t Have To

President-elect Donald Trump was going to undo the Biden administration's sweeping rewrite of Title IX rules. A federal judge beat him to it. Matt...

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Sarah Szilagy

The Group That Helped the Squad Is Recruiting Working Class Candidates for 2026

The Group That Helped the Squad Is Recruiting Working Class Candidates for 2026

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, in 2019 Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Zuma On Tuesday morning, the Justice...

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Sophie Hurwitz

He Came to the US at Six and Was Deported by Trump. Now, He’s Stuck in Sierra Leone.

He Came to the US at Six and Was Deported by Trump. Now, He’s Stuck in Sierra Leone.

Samuel Anthony with family in Freetown, Sierra Leone Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy of Samuel Anthony Samuel Anthony turns his phone camera...

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Isabela Dias

Sexual Assault Survivors in the Military Have Some Questions for Pete Hegseth

Sexual Assault Survivors in the Military Have Some Questions for Pete Hegseth

A mural painted at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in 2023 Staff Sergeant Miranda Mahoney/US Air...

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Sonner Kehrt

Influencers Are Using the Los Angeles Fires to Hawk Wellness Products 

Influencers Are Using the Los Angeles Fires to Hawk Wellness Products 

Mother Jones illustration; Getty As wildfires continue to burn all around Los Angeles, influencers have emerged to promote sales of their own,...

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Anna Merlan

One Week In, LA’s Fires Are Still Spreading

One Week In, LA’s Fires Are Still Spreading

Destruction from the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., January 8, 2025. Scott McKiernan/ZUMA It has been a week since Los Angeles’ devastating...

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Henry Carnell

The Los Angeles Fire Chief at the Center of the Storm

The Los Angeles Fire Chief at the Center of the Storm

Kristin Crowley speaks at a press conference for her nomination in January 2022. Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register via AP This story was...

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Edward Helmore

Domestic Abuse and a Drinking Pledge: What Pete Hegseth Refuses to Answer

Domestic Abuse and a Drinking Pledge: What Pete Hegseth Refuses to Answer

Alex Brandon/Associated Press It took nearly two hours into Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday for Democrats to effectively underscore...

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Inae Oh

At RFK Jr.-Led Environmental Group, Insiders Questioned How He Spent $67 Million

At RFK Jr.-Led Environmental Group, Insiders Questioned How He Spent $67 Million

Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP; DeAgostini/Getty On July 10, 2020, Terry Tamminen wrote a letter to the board chair of...

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David Corn

Jack Smith: “Trump Isn’t Exonerated”

Jack Smith: “Trump Isn’t Exonerated”

Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 Yuri Gripas/AP Jack Smith ‘ s final report on Donald’s Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election doesn’t...

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Dan Friedman

The Ultra-Christian Tech Bros Have Been Mingling at Mar-a-Lago

The Ultra-Christian Tech Bros Have Been Mingling at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago Alon Skuy/Getty Last Thursday, as wildfires continued to blaze through Los Angeles, firefighters appeared to be...

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Kiera Butler

LA Is Burning, and the Right Is Furious—About Sign Language Interpreters

LA Is Burning, and the Right Is Furious—About Sign Language Interpreters

Charlie Kirk at AmericaFest in December 2024. Alexandra Buxbaum/SIPA USA/AP In emergency updates, American Sign Language interpreters are crucial...

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Julia Métraux