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Hero of 2025: Ultra-Processed Foods

Hero of 2025: Ultra-Processed Foods

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective...

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Kiera Butler

The Bible Says So…or Does It?

The Bible Says So…or Does It?

A parishioner prays during Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Joshua Lott/The Washington Post/Getty Dan McClellan has spent much of his life...

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Reveal

Trump’s Latest Climate Attack: Offshore Wind Farms

Trump’s Latest Climate Attack: Offshore Wind Farms

A wind turbine off Block Island, Rhode Island. Julia Nikhinson/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as...

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Oliver Milman

Monster of 2025: Cigarettes

Monster of 2025: Cigarettes

Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Giorgio Trovato/Unsplash The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the...

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Jacob Rosenberg

Trump Administration Bans Abortion Care for Veterans

Trump Administration Bans Abortion Care for Veterans

The Veterans Administration Medical Center in Pittsburgh. Gene J. Puskar/AP In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration,...

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Alex Nguyen

Trump Tried to Send the National Guard Into Chicago. The Supreme Court Said No.

Trump Tried to Send the National Guard Into Chicago. The Supreme Court Said No.

Residents and protesters clash with federal agents in the East Side neighborhood after tear gas was detonated on October 14, 2025 in Chicago,...

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Alex Nguyen

Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are About to See Their Paychecks Shrink

Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are About to See Their Paychecks Shrink

Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a meeting in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 4, 2025. Alex Brandon/AP The Department of...

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Alex Nguyen

Mike Pence Poaches Heritage Foundation Staff After Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Blowup

Mike Pence Poaches Heritage Foundation Staff After Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Blowup

Former Vice President Mike Pence looks on before the funeral services for former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Washington National Cathedral,...

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Alex Nguyen

Hero of 2025: Principled Grand Juries

Hero of 2025: Principled Grand Juries

Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Andrew Leyden/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past...

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Abby Vesoulis

Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas

Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas

Climate change is creating tougher growing seasons for Christmas trees. Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty via Inside Climate News This story was originally...

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Kiley Price

New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt

New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt

Gov. Kathy Hochul joins domestic violence service providers to discuss New York's discovery laws. NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx/AP New York Gov. Kathy Hochul...

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Katie Herchenroeder

CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical of Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans

CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical of Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans

Erika Kirk, whose husband Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, speaks at a one-hour town hall event moderated by Bari Weiss, CBS News'...

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Alex Nguyen

A Flood-Prone City Gets Creative in Its Effort to Tame the Water Gods

A Flood-Prone City Gets Creative in Its Effort to Tame the Water Gods

Hampton is building a sandy marsh over rocks that currently line the shore at Mill Point Park, and experimenting with protective sills to buffer...

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Phred Dvorak

Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank

Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence...

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Alex Nguyen

Trump Has Intercepted Two Oil Tankers Off Venezuela This Weekend

Trump Has Intercepted Two Oil Tankers Off Venezuela This Weekend

The crude oil tanker Skipper recently seized by the U.S. off the coast of Venezuela, seen as the ship was traveling in a southwesterly direction...

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Alex Nguyen

Fancy Galleries, Fake Art

Fancy Galleries, Fake Art

Illustration by Brian Britigan for Reveal In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another–works...

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Hero of 2025: Kara Swisher

Hero of 2025: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher, journalist and podcaster from the USA, in conversation with Kim Kardashian on a stage at the OMR digital and marketing trade fair....

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Nina Martin

Trump’s Epstein Coverup Is Just Getting Started

Trump’s Epstein Coverup Is Just Getting Started

“There was no relationship.” Epstein estate/House oversight committee/Zuma On Friday, the Trump-controlled Justice Department was mandated by a...

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Clint Hendler

This Climate Concern Is Way Out There

This Climate Concern Is Way Out There

Long-exposure photography shows the paths of satellites criss-crossing the night sky. Alan Dyer / VWPics / Universal Images Group/Getty This story...

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Jon Gertner

Trump Seizes on Brown, MIT Shooting to Suspend More Legal Immigration

Trump Seizes on Brown, MIT Shooting to Suspend More Legal Immigration

President Donald Trump recognizes Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as he speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the...

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Katie Herchenroeder

MAGA Is Eating Itself Alive

MAGA Is Eating Itself Alive

Tucker Carlson (left) and Ben Shapiro exchange barbs at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 Mother Jones; Brian Cahn/Zuma(2) Sometime this week in...

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Anna Merlan