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When workers at the United States Agency for International Development got an email earlier this month informing them they were soon to be put on...
In early February, President Donald Trump threatened to cut off “all future funding” to South Africa, alleging that the government was “treating...
When Donald Trump formally announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be chairing a newly created Department of Government Efficiency in...
The foundational myth of Donald Trump is that everything is a deal. “Deals are my art form,” he wrote in—of course—The Art of the Deal....
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday declaring that the federal government would no longer recognize the US-born children of...
You could learn most of what you needed to know about the tone and tenor of Donald Trump’s second inauguration by the people who showed up to watch...
The president-elect—who pushed for an invasion of Mexico during his first term—has spent the month leading up to next week’s inauguration...
Mother Jones illustration; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the...
Mother Jones illustration; Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the...
Mother Jones illustration; Michael M. Santiago/Getty; Getty It feels strange to suggest that the second-most memorable thing that happened on a...
Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks at an Arizona campaign event. Ross D. Franklin/ AP When Tim Stringham arrived at a “Veterans for...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA Images via ZUMA Elon Musk’s $150 million pro-Trump super-PAC is one of the biggest campaign-finance stories in years—maybe ever....
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty It started, according to court filings, with a tweet. On August 18,...
Congressional candidate Michelle Vallejo participates in the Peanut Festival Grand Parade in Floresville, Texas., on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Scott...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about a school voucher plan during a 2023 rally at Cypress Christian School in Houston. Jon Shapley/Houston...
Trish Badger/imageSPACE via ZUMA With a little more than a week to go before Election Day, the presidential race is expected to come down to just...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA Images via ZUMA Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Space X and Tesla, and the world’s richest man, is convinced that immigrants...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma At the end of every event on Ted Cruz’s 53-stop campaign swing through Texas, the state’s junior senator invites...
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty One of the biggest moments from Tuesday’s US Senate debate in Texas was about high school sports. For months Sen....
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, has gone “Deep MAGA.” The billionaire owner of X—the “everything app“—...
Angelina Katsanis/Politico/AP When large numbers of migrants, seeking an escape from poverty and dangerous conditions back home, began arriving in...
Ricky Fitchett/ZUMA By the time he endorsed former President Donald Trump in late August, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid had...
A ballot measure supporter attends a rally at the Arizona State Capitol in June. Rebecca Noble/The Washington Post/Getty On a quiet Saturday...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives for his arraignment outside Manhattan Federal Court on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 in Manhattan. Barry...
Peter K. Afriyie/AP Not long after Eric Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in June 2021, a lot of people who are paid to...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that one of the world’s richest men had recently experienced a major...
Tia Dufour/The White House/ZUMA In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden was buoyed by victories in the “blue wall” states of the Upper...
Mother Jones illustration; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Arizona’s fourth legislative district, located in the...
Former President Barack Obama speaks at the DNC. Nate Gowdy The immediate reaction to former President Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic...
Delegates at the DNC hold We Love Joe signs on the first night of the convention. Nate Gowdy It doesn’t take a lot of detective work to grasp that...
Mother Jones; Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty; Jean Catuffe/Getty; Wikimedia Bernie Moreno’s network of car dealerships is the building block of the Ohio...
Mother Jones; Stephen Maturen/Getty Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, CNN and the Associated...
Courtesy Google It was about this time last week when I first saw that ad for Gemini, Google’s new artificial-intelligence chatbot. If you’ve been...
David Lara speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 17. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The news got a bit buried, with so much going on in...
Mother Jones; Michael Brochstein/Zuma; Unsplash Earlier this month, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who oversees mail-in...
Mother Jones; Christopher Brown/Zuma (3) In late June, I was at a candidate forum in Sun City West, a sprawling retirement community northwest of...
Mother Jones; Will Seberger/Zuma; Getty When former president Donald Trump appeared at Dream City church in Phoenix in early June, he was visited...