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Devastated by Israel, Gaza Faces an Environmental Crisis “Above Imagination”

Devastated by Israel, Gaza Faces an Environmental Crisis “Above Imagination”

Palestinians collect warning leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, October 20, 2025. Jehad...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Most Dangerous Man in the US Senate?

The Most Dangerous Man in the US Senate?

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing at the Capitol on June 25, 2025. Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP A version of the...

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David Corn

What Shutdown?

What Shutdown?

Andrew Leyden/AP Mass federal layoffs that could soon become permanent. Food aid programs facing imminent disaster. Mounting recession indicators...

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Inae Oh

Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged

Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged

Mother Jones illustration; Kevin Dietsch/Getty The GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature, which has already gone to extreme lengths to...

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Ari Berman

Staffers Fear a Southern Planned Parenthood Faces a “Dangerous Threat From Within”

Staffers Fear a Southern Planned Parenthood Faces a “Dangerous Threat From Within”

Mother Jones illustration; Getty To hear former Planned Parenthood Southeast staffers tell it, the alarm bells started going off in the summer of...

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Nina Martin

Portland Feds Are Escalating Chaos at ICE Protests

Portland Feds Are Escalating Chaos at ICE Protests

Timothy J. Gonzalez/ZUMA In another dizzying plot point around President Donald Trump’s attempts to federalize the National Guard, three judges on...

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Kevin Foster

ICE’s Spending on Weaponry Is Up More Than 700 Percent Over Last Year

This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. US Immigration and Customs...

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Judd Legum

Report: Trump Demands Taxpayers Hand Him $230 Million

Earlier this year, Mother Jones published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” Examples included buying...

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Dan Friedman

The Federal Workers Who Showed Up at “No Kings” Are Not the Villains in This Story

The Federal Workers Who Showed Up at “No Kings” Are Not the Villains in This Story

Furloughed and mostly unpaid, federal workers took to the streets on Saturday. Courtesy of Federal Unionists Network “Fed Up Fed!” one protest...

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Anna Rogers

Top Republicans Stand by President’s Poop Video

Top Republicans Stand by President’s Poop Video

Kevin Dietsch/AP Late Saturday, as “No Kings” protests across the country came to a close, President Donald Trump emerged with what appeared to be...

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Inae Oh

Black Lung Keeps Killing America’s Coal Miners. Does Donald Trump Even Care?

Black Lung Keeps Killing America’s Coal Miners. Does Donald Trump Even Care?

Miners and advocates outside the Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, DC, protesting the Trump administration’s delay of rules limiting...

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Aidan Hughes

Trump and Johnson Are Melting Down Over The Success of “No Kings”

Trump and Johnson Are Melting Down Over The Success of “No Kings”

The president had an odd response to the Saturday "No Kings" protests. Alex Brandon/AP Saturday’s “No Kings” protests were, as my colleagues...

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Julianne Mcshane

This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

A photovoltaic power station in Muma Lake, China. Costfoto/NurPhoto/AP This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as...

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Jeremy Deaton

George Santos Is Already Back on Network TV

George Santos Is Already Back on Network TV

Disgraced ex-congressman George Santos has only been out of prison since Friday, but he's already back on network TV. Theodore Parisienne/New York...

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Julianne Mcshane

Here’s What “No Kings” Looked Like Across the World

Here’s What “No Kings” Looked Like Across the World

Demonstrators in New York's Times Square. Carlos Chiossone/ZUMA On Saturday, countless people gathered at “No Kings” protests in thousands of...

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Noah Lanard

George Santos Leaves Prison After Trump Commutes Sentence

George Santos Leaves Prison After Trump Commutes Sentence

Former Rep. George Santos arrives at federal court for sentencing in April in New York. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Perhaps the most notable thing...

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Noah Lanard

I Returned to the Site of the Original No Kings Protest

I Returned to the Site of the Original No Kings Protest

Bill McKibben commemorates the 1775 Battle of Lexington, a turning point in America's Revolutionary War. Bill McKibben Of the 2,500 No Kings...

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Bill Mckibben

Frogs, Axolotls, and a Hippo Take Manhattan to Deflate Trump’s “Antifa” Slur

Frogs, Axolotls, and a Hippo Take Manhattan to Deflate Trump’s “Antifa” Slur

James West A joyous, mocking menagerie of frogs, axolotls, and at least one giant pink hippo made its way down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on...

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James West

Julian Brave NoiseCat’s New Book Explores Indigenous Life, Death, and Survival

Julian Brave NoiseCat’s New Book Explores Indigenous Life, Death, and Survival

Mother Jones illustration; Portrait by Emily Kassie In May 2021, ground-penetrating radar detected more than 200 unmarked graves of Indian children...

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Cheyenne Mcneill

Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire

Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire

Untraceable phone-tracking technology has been used to target politicians, journalists, and executives, among others. Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire/Zuma...

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Reveal

Florida Wildlife Officials Discover Second Case of ‘Zombie Deer Disease’

Florida Wildlife Officials Discover Second Case of ‘Zombie Deer Disease’

Deer grazing in the Florida Keys, October 2024. Lynne Sladky/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part...

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Richard Luscombe

There Sure Were a Lot of American Flags at the “Hate America Rally”

There Sure Were a Lot of American Flags at the “Hate America Rally”

The No Kings protest, heading toward the US Capitol Building Allison Robbert/AP The first protester I noticed as I approached the No Kings rally...

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Jeremy Schulman

Portland’s Inflatable Costumes Deflate Trump’s Narrative

Portland’s Inflatable Costumes Deflate Trump’s Narrative

Timothy J. Gonzalez/ZUMA It’s much more difficult, in fact, well nigh impossible, to call Portland, Oregon, a war zone when ICE agents are forced...

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Kevin Foster

They’re Teachers, Nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump Administration Calls Them Antifa.

They’re Teachers, Nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump Administration Calls Them Antifa.

Mother Jones illustration; Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/AP, Violeta Alvarez/AP, Michael Nigro/Sipa USA/AP This Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, at...

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Tim Murphy