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This Term, the Supreme Court Gave Favors to Its MAGA Allies on Two Tracks

Mother Jones illustration; Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo/AP; Valerie Plesch/DPA/Zuma Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The...

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Pema Levy And Patrick Caldwell

Wisconsin Supreme Court Just Killed the “Zombie” Abortion Law

When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their minds. Specifically,...

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Nina Martin

Why So Many Low-Income Households Can’t Afford This Free Home Improvement Program

johnrob/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk collaboration. The federal...

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Tik Root

Jeffrey Goldberg on Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, and the Risk of WWIII

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends the White House Easter Egg Roll in April. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma In March, The Atlantic’s editor-in-...

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Reveal

The Murky Relationship Between the Hindu American Foundation and an Indian Embassy

The Hindu American Foundation has worked closely with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several American political figures. Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto/...

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Nevin Kallepalli

Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

Children flee a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. The 18-year-old gunman gave off numerous warning signs...

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Mark Follman

The Senate’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies

The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed in August of 2023 in Williamston, North Carolina. Karl B...

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Nina Martin

The Cartoonish Cruelty of Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz

Evan Vucci/AP An abandoned swamp packed with predators. Generic rock music. A “one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation...

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Inae Oh

Senate Votes to Cut $930 Billion From Medicaid

An activist wears a Medicaid shirt as Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee...

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Julia Métraux

“Sinners” Is Bringing Black American Sign Language to the Mainstream

Michael B. Jordan starred in a dual role in Coogler's 2025 vampire blockbuster. Warner Bros. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a...

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Julia Métraux

Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

A data center for cryptocurrency mining, cloud services, and AI computing in Stutsman County, North Dakota. halbergman/Getty This story was...

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Dharna Noor And Oliver Milman

It Never Stopped Being Birtherism

Luiz Rampelotto/Europanewswire/ZUMA Let’s start with the proposition that you should not have to know who Andy Ogles is. It often seems like Andy...

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Tim Murphy

Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Will Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as critics contend, be a massive giveaway to the rich?...

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Bob Lord

Dear Joe Rogan, Kash Patel Played You

Mother Jones illustration; Andrew Leyden/Zuma; Louis Grasse/PxImage/Zuma Dear Joe Rogan, I don’t know you. We’ve never met, and I am not a regular...

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David Corn

How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Unsplash When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still...

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Nina Martin

Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

Wind generators in Monticello, Utah. Jon G. Fuller/ Vwpics/VW Pics/ZUMA The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,”...

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Henry Carnell

Pharma Giant Roche Hires Trump to Sell Swanky Condo

Mother Jones illustration; Chip Somodevilla/Getty; Wikimedia (2) Donald Trump’s realty firm is representing one of the country’s largest...

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Russ Choma

The Bezos-Sánchez Hangover

The Bezos-Sánchez Hangover

Luca Bruno/AP As the dust settles in Venice, where some of the world’s richest gathered to bless the union of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, I’m...

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Inae Oh

Elon Musk Rips Into Trump’s “Utterly Insane” Tax Bill Again

Elon Musk Rips Into Trump’s “Utterly Insane” Tax Bill Again

Evan Vucci/AP After a brief interlude, Elon Musk on Saturday resumed his public wrestling match with President Donald Trump, ripping into the...

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Inae Oh

Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans?

Firefighting Foams Contain Toxic Chemicals. Why Not Switch to Soybeans?

Carlos Avila Gonzalez/Getty Via Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate...

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Frida Garza