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New data released this week reaffirmed a seemingly paradoxical reality of the post-Roe v. Wade era: Abortion rates have continued to rise despite the...
On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US...
The Trump administration’s only consistency with its tariff policy has been its inconsistency. On April 2—a day President Donald Trump dubbed...
On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made a surprise pit stop while on the road for his “fighting oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria...
On Wednesday, S.W., an award-winning probationary worker at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), spent the day crying in bed. S.W.,...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. In his first sit-down interview in his role as Secretary...
Massive crowds of Americans took to the streets this weekend. In large cities and small towns, online, and even around the world, people voiced their...
Elon Musk has a new target—and it’s not trans people. This time, he appears to be going after Peter Navarro, counselor to President Donald Trump,...
Massachusetts may be a reliably blue state, but my hometown of Marshfield is not. In 2016, then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton decisively won the...
One of the casualties of Tuesday’s massive purge of workers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an office dedicated to...
In 2024, Brittany Charlton achieved what she now calls “one of [her] main career aspirations”: the launch of a research center at Harvard...
Chris Milligan arrived in Myanmar in 2012 with a mandate: Help repair diplomatic relations with the southeast Asian country by reopening its United...
After a French court found far-right leader and former presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement on Monday—a conviction that...
President Donald Trump has repeatedly teased running for a third term in violation of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which limits presidents...
One of the most powerful people in the White House remained obscure to most Americans since the start of Trump’s second presidency, until Saturday...
On Tuesday night, the Senate 56 to 44 voted to confirm Martin Makary as Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. Three...
Applicants seeking funding from the National Institutes of Health for, among other things, basic research, conferences, and training for young...
Just after noon Eastern Time on Monday, the Atlantic published a story that seemed, on its face, too absurd to be true. Entitled “The Trump...
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, an associate professor of public health at the University of California, San Diego, was in a faculty meeting on Friday...
The White House is offering a new corporate sponsorship opportunity-slash-potential-ethics-catastrophe: The annual Easter Egg Roll. According to a CNN...
Elon Musk and his GOP acolytes are using the proliferation of Tesla protests to double down on their transphobia. As my colleague Sam van Pykeren...
Dave Weldon, center, pictured in 2005 when he was in Congress, is Trump's first nominee who did not make it through the Senate confirmation...
On Monday night, a longtime employee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sat down with his wife at their kitchen table in a D.C. suburb and...
Here’s something you won’t read in Mother Jones too often: President Donald Trump was actually right about something—or at least, more right...
As an outbreak of measles drags on in Texas, and wary officials monitor the bird flu, the Trump administration is reportedly offering $25,000 buyouts...
Until last month, Claire Bergstresser worked to enforce fair housing laws in the Boston branch of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s...
Congressional Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress began when he first started to speak. During...
Paranoid right-wing parents now have a new tool at their disposal. Last week, the Department of Education launched a so-called End DEI portal, a place...
On Sunday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Face the Nation on CBS to make an announcement: His department will appoint a new...
On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making English the country’s “official language.” The move is a bureaucratic—and...
Elon Musk appears to be flailing these days. Now, after trolling federal workers over the weekend, only to get undercut by the Trump administration,...
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed abortion rights advocates a rare win when they declined to take up a pair of cases seeking to challenge a...
Early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make a seemingly unprompted post egging on Elon Musk. “ELON IS DOING A GREAT...
Elon Musk may be able to control—to some extent—the American government. But on Sunday, German voters showed he does not control theirs. After...
Early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make a seemingly unprompted post egging on Elon Musk. “ELON IS DOING A GREAT...
There’s been ample evidence over the past few years that abortion bans lead to death and major health risks for pregnant people and babies. Now, a...
On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order on in vitro fertilization. Despite the executive order’s claims that it’s “expanding...
A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass stands in Easton, Maryland—the same town where a parade honoring him has reportedly been cancelled...
On the House floor Monday night—in a speech that was jarring, graphic, and nearly an hour long—Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) made disturbing...
Poll after poll shows a large proportion of Americans do not want Elon Musk making decisions about the how the government functions. Andrew Harnik/La...
President Donald Trump is doubling down—in strikingly transactional and inhumane terms—on his stated plan to take over Gaza, force out...
Elon Musk’s Cybertrucks may look indestructible: hulking blocks of aluminum and steel that appear to be better suited for a space station than a...
We always knew that Trump’s return to the White House would bring Christian nationalism to the highest levels of government. There’s Russell...
A new pro-Trump mouthpiece is set to join Fox News as a host later this month: His son Eric’s wife and former Republican National Committee...
A bill that would help fund critical services for millions of victims of domestic and sexual violence, including children, is getting a second chance...
Gathered outside the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development in downtown Washington, DC, on Monday, a fiery group of congressional...
President Trump’s baseless claims that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are responsible for the tragic, late-night plane collision in...
In a scathing letter to the Senate ahead of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, Biden...
A group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers is on a mission: to extend the massive tax cuts Trump instituted in his first term, and to convince...
On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, claimed in an interview that aired on ABC that international leaders would not...