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Federal workers comprise less than one percent of the US population, but are responsible for facilitating programs that help all 330-plus million...
Donald Trump had a lot working against his 2024 candidacy. During his first presidency, he was impeached twice—the second time for inciting the...
Government employees who report possible malfeasance are almost certain to be targeted by the second Trump administration. Mark Zaid is a lawyer...
Washington, DC stands out as a refuge for reproductive rights: Unlike the 20-plus states that have moved to restrict abortion since the US Supreme...
Legislative business in Minnesota’s 2025-2026 state House session began Tuesday at noon Central Time; or perhaps it hasn’t begun at all. It...
Lynn Levin-Guzman spent her Tuesday night within spitting distance of SUV-sized flames, trying to salvage her 90-year-old parents’ home with a mere...
Mother Jones illustration; Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and...
Mother Jones illustration; Plexi Images/Universal Images Group/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters...
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP; Ross D. Franklin/AP In the race for Arizona’s open US Senate seat, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego has...
Mother Jones illustration; Joe Maiorana/AP; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Late Tuesday night, the Associated Press projected Ohio Republican Bernie...
Mother Jones illustration Back in June, during the CNN debate, former president Donald Trump said something very important: He promised to accept...
Mother Jones illustration; Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty; Getty “I have two rules,” Bernie Moreno, Ohio’s Republican candidate for US Senate, told...
Mother Jones; Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma When the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion in its 2022 Dobbs decision, one...
Mother Jones; Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma When the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion in its 2022 Dobbs decision, one...
Former President Donald Trump on the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA...
A scripture sign on a fence post outside a house in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2024. Caroline Gutman There’s a quickly growing...
Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Before Bernie Moreno was the 2024 Ohio Republican candidate for Senate, he was the owner of...
Mother Jones illustration; Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP In 2015, as Sen. Ted Cruz mounted a competitive presidential campaign and courted the religious...
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz takes in the moment on stage at the convention with his wife, Gwen, and their children, Gus and...
Mother Jones; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty; Brent Stirton/Getty (2) At a Tuesday panel dedicated to “Protecting the Vote” at the Democratic...
Amanda Zurawski speaks onstage at the 2024 Democratic National Convention Mother Jones illustration; Chip Somodevilla/Getty In a coveted primetime...
Trump campaigning in Montana on Thursday. Rick Bowmer/AP On Thursday, while attacking Vice President Kamala Harris during a meandering Mar-a-Lago...
A happy warrior. Gage Skidmore/Zuma On her way to a packed rally in Glendale, Arizona on Friday, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee...
Mother Jones; Anna Moneymaker/Getty In the 1960s and 70s, Jane Goodman recalls dealing with systemic misogyny. Women were not able to get credit...
Mother Jones; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty; Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA When President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race on July 21 and...
Mother Jones illustration Remember June 27? That was when President Joe Biden delivered his bewildering and bewildered—empty eyes, mouth agape—...
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Former president Donald Trump walked out onto the floor at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night with a...