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He Sued to Block a Biden Vaccine Mandate. Now He’s Helping Dismantle USAID.

He Sued to Block a Biden Vaccine Mandate. Now He’s Helping Dismantle USAID.

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...

22.02.2025 8

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Everything Elon Musk Touches Is a Conflict of Interest

In early February, President Donald Trump threatened to cut off “all future funding” to South Africa, alleging that the government was “treating...

11.02.2025 40

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Ro Khanna’s DOGE Dream Is Dead

When Donald Trump formally announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be chairing a newly created Department of Government Efficiency in...

07.02.2025 4

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Donald Trump and the Return of Ransom-Note Politics

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....

24.01.2025 10

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Actually, the 14th Amendment Still Exists

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday declaring that the federal government would no longer recognize the US-born children of...

21.01.2025 40

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The Stagecraft That Ushered in the Trump Oligarchy

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...

21.01.2025 40

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

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...

15.01.2025 10

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Monster of 2024: Joe Biden

Mother Jones illustration; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the...

26.12.2024 4

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Monster of 2024: Cars, Again

Mother Jones illustration; Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the...

20.12.2024 5

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The Oligarch Election

Mother Jones illustration; Michael M. Santiago/Getty; Getty It feels strange to suggest that the second-most memorable thing that happened on a...

05.11.2024 30

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Arizona’s Election Deniers Say to Trust the Process—For Now

Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks at an Arizona campaign event. Ross D. Franklin/ AP When Tim Stringham arrived at a “Veterans for...

04.11.2024 3

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Trump Supporters Love Elon Musk. They’re a Little Confused About His PAC.

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....

04.11.2024 2

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How Ken Paxton Built the Foundation for the New Big Lie

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty It started, according to court filings, with a tweet. On August 18,...

03.11.2024 6

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How Much Has the Democratic Party’s Border Messaging Changed? Look to South Texas

Congressional candidate Michelle Vallejo participates in the Peanut Festival Grand Parade in Floresville, Texas., on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Scott...

01.11.2024 8

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This Texas District Could Make or Break Greg Abbott’s School Voucher Plan

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about a school voucher plan during a 2023 rally at Cypress Christian School in Houston. Jon Shapley/Houston...

29.10.2024 1

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Harris and Trump Are Blowing Up the Case for the Electoral College

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...

26.10.2024 2

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Elon Musk Wants to Deport People Living in the United States Illegally—Just Like He Once Did

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...

26.10.2024 1

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What Ted Cruz Really Means When He Says “Keep Texas, Texas”

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...

24.10.2024 20

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Texas Democrats Are Trying the “Throw Ted Cruz in a Locker” Strategy

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....

17.10.2024 10

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Elon Musk Is Offering People Cash To Identify Trump Voters. What Could Go Wrong?

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“—...

08.10.2024 3

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Which Migrants Get to Have a “Homeland” in JD Vance’s Ohio?

Angelina Katsanis/Politico/AP When large numbers of migrants, seeking an escape from poverty and dangerous conditions back home, began arriving in...

07.10.2024 3

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This Is Why You Don’t Mess With the Election Calendar

Ricky Fitchett/ZUMA By the time he endorsed former President Donald Trump in late August, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid had...

01.10.2024 1

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Want to See How Fast the Politics of Abortion Are Changing? Pay Attention to Arizona

A ballot measure supporter attends a rally at the Arizona State Capitol in June. Rebecca Noble/The Washington Post/Getty On a quiet Saturday...

30.09.2024 2

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There’s No Vast Conspiracy to Prosecute Biden Critics. Crimes Are Just Illegal.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives for his arraignment outside Manhattan Federal Court on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 in Manhattan. Barry...

27.09.2024 1

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The Real Eric Adams Was Never a Mystery

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...

26.09.2024 2

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Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t Done With Politics. His Politics Have Just Changed.

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...

25.09.2024 3

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Trump’s Electoral College Power Play in Nebraska Is a Troubling Sign of Things to Come

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...

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Lynda Carter’s Sister Is Running in a Key Arizona Race. Wonder Woman Is Sounding the Alarm.

Mother Jones illustration; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Arizona’s fourth legislative district, located in the...

13.09.2024 5

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The Democratic Party Has Finally Gone YIMBY

Former President Barack Obama speaks at the DNC. Nate Gowdy The immediate reaction to former President Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic...

22.08.2024 2

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The Vibe Has Shifted Downballot Too

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...

21.08.2024 1

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Bernie Moreno Says He Built His Car Dealer Empire All on His Own. The Reality Is More Complicated.

Mother Jones; Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty; Jean Catuffe/Getty; Wikimedia Bernie Moreno’s network of car dealerships is the building block of the Ohio...

20.08.2024 10

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Tim Walz, Normal Guy, Is Reportedly Harris’ Pick for Vice President

Mother Jones; Stephen Maturen/Getty Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, CNN and the Associated...

06.08.2024 7

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Thank God Google Pulled That Awful and Depressing AI Ad

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...

03.08.2024 3

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An Arizona Voter Fraud Activist Is on the Verge of Winning a Critical County Office

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...

03.08.2024 3

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Election Deniers Just Scored a Major Win in Arizona’s Biggest County

Mother Jones; Michael Brochstein/Zuma; Unsplash Earlier this month, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who oversees mail-in...

31.07.2024 6

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This Arizona Race Is One of the Ugliest Republican Primaries I’ve Seen in Years

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...

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Joe Arpaio Still Hasn’t Made Peace With His Own Demise

Mother Jones; Will Seberger/Zuma; Getty When former president Donald Trump appeared at Dream City church in Phoenix in early June, he was visited...

29.07.2024 2

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