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Abortions Are Rising—Even After Dobbs. A New Book Explains Why.

Abortions Are Rising—Even After Dobbs. A New Book Explains Why.

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...

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Trump Keeps Falsely Claiming Ukraine Started the War With Russia

Trump Keeps Falsely Claiming Ukraine Started the War With Russia

On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US...

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When It Comes to Tariffs Trump Officials Can’t Get Their Message Straight

When It Comes to Tariffs Trump Officials Can’t Get Their Message Straight

The Trump administration’s only consistency with its tariff policy has been its inconsistency. On April 2—a day President Donald Trump dubbed...

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Bernie Sanders Spoke at Coachella and the Crowd Went Wild

Bernie Sanders Spoke at Coachella and the Crowd Went Wild

On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made a surprise pit stop while on the road for his “fighting oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria...

13.04.2025 1

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Inside Trump’s Federal “Probie” Purge

Inside Trump’s Federal “Probie” Purge

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.,...

11.04.2025 3

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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine

Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine

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...

09.04.2025 2

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Elon Musk Says Saturday’s Protesters Were Paid “Puppets.” That’s Not What I Saw.

Elon Musk Says Saturday’s Protesters Were Paid “Puppets.” That’s Not What I Saw.

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...

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Elon Musk Is Taking Aim at Trump’s Top Tariff Guy

Elon Musk Is Taking Aim at Trump’s Top Tariff Guy

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,...

06.04.2025 4

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My Trump-Loving Massachusetts Hometown Just Showed The Hell Up

My Trump-Loving Massachusetts Hometown Just Showed The Hell Up

Massachusetts may be a reliably blue state, but my hometown of Marshfield is not. In 2016, then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton decisively won the...

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Inside the “Vital” Office for Reproductive Health Gutted By Mass HHS Firings

Inside the “Vital” Office for Reproductive Health Gutted By Mass HHS Firings

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...

04.04.2025 5

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New Lawsuit Challenges the Trump Administration’s Devastating Research Cancellations

New Lawsuit Challenges the Trump Administration’s Devastating Research Cancellations

In 2024, Brittany Charlton achieved what she now calls “one of [her] main career aspirations”: the launch of a research center at Harvard...

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Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake

Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake

Chris Milligan arrived in Myanmar in 2012 with a mandate: Help repair diplomatic relations with the southeast Asian country by reopening its United...

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France Cracked Down on Far-Right Corruption—And Team Trump Is Triggered

France Cracked Down on Far-Right Corruption—And Team Trump Is Triggered

After a French court found far-right leader and former presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement on Monday—a conviction that...

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“I’m Not Joking”: Trump Again Floats Running for Anti-Constitutional Third Term

“I’m Not Joking”: Trump Again Floats Running for Anti-Constitutional Third Term

President Donald Trump has repeatedly teased running for a third term in violation of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which limits presidents...

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Susie Wiles Finally Goes Public—and Shares Her Strange Goal for a Trump “Legacy”

Susie Wiles Finally Goes Public—and Shares Her Strange Goal for a Trump “Legacy”

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...

30.03.2025 3

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Senate Confirms Trump’s Anti-Abortion Pick to Lead the FDA

On Tuesday night, the Senate 56 to 44 voted to confirm Martin Makary as Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. Three...

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The NIH Just Officially Killed Diversity Statements In Its Grant Applications

Applicants seeking funding from the National Institutes of Health for, among other things, basic research, conferences, and training for young...

26.03.2025 8

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All the Ways Trump Officials Are Downplaying the “War Plans” Group Chat

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...

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Domestic Violence and Maternal Mortality Are Rising. The NIH Just Defunded a Project to Study Both.

Rebecca Fielding-Miller, an associate professor of public health at the University of California, San Diego, was in a faculty meeting on Friday...

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Report: The White House Easter Egg Roll Is for Sale

The White House is offering a new corporate sponsorship opportunity-slash-potential-ethics-catastrophe: The annual Easter Egg Roll. According to a CNN...

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Tesla’s in Trouble. Elon Blames…Trans People?

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...

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This CDC Nominee May Have Been Too Anti-Vax Even for RFK Jr.’s HHS

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...

13.03.2025 8

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‘Health Security Is At Risk’: Inside the Purge of HHS

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...

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Trump and His Commerce Secretary Differ Over Whether His Tariffs Will Spark a Recession

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...

10.03.2025 10

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Federal Health Agency Offers $25,000 Employee Buyouts—With Ramifications for Millions of Americans

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...

09.03.2025 7

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DOGE’s Cuts to HUD Will Only Make the Housing Crisis Worse

Until last month, Claire Bergstresser worked to enforce fair housing laws in the Boston branch of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s...

07.03.2025 8

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“You Have No Mandate!” Congressional Democrats Protest Trump’s Speech

Congressional Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress began when he first started to speak. During...

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Moms for Liberty Is Very Excited for the DOE’s New Snitch Line

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...

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Trump’s Plan to Tackle Inflation? An “Affordability Czar”

On Sunday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Face the Nation on CBS to make an announcement: His department will appoint a new...

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Trump’s Order to Make English Official Language Does Nothing But Embolden Xenophobia

On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making English the country’s “official language.” The move is a bureaucratic—and...

02.03.2025 5

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Amid Chaos, New Report Reveals 40 Percent of DOGE Cuts Save No Money

Elon Musk appears to be flailing these days. Now, after trolling federal workers over the weekend, only to get undercut by the Trump administration,...

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SCOTUS Just Gave Abortion Clinics a Rare Win

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...

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Trump Officials Remind Federal Employees That Elon Musk Is Not Their Boss

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...

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Elon Musk’s Bid to Propel Germany’s Far-Right Party to Victory Has Failed

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...

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Trump Officials Remind Federal Employees That Elon Musk Is Not Their Boss

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...

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Report: Sepsis, Maternal Deaths Surged in Texas Following Abortion Bans

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...

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Trump’s Order to Expand IVF Access Does Not Expand IVF Access

On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order on in vitro fertilization. Despite the executive order’s claims that it’s “expanding...

20.02.2025 20

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Trump’s Anti-DEI Order Stops Maryland National Guard from Celebrating Frederick Douglass

A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass stands in Easton, Maryland—the same town where a parade honoring him has reportedly been cancelled...

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Please Don’t Use Nancy Mace’s So-Called Victim Hotline, Advocates Say

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...

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Polls Keep Showing Americans Want Elon Musk and DOGE Out of Government

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...

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“A Real Estate Development for the Future”: Trump Doubles Down on Plan to Take Over Gaza

President Donald Trump is doubling down—in strikingly transactional and inhumane terms—on his stated plan to take over Gaza, force out...

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Report: Elon’s Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos

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...

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Trump Just Outlined His Plan to Hand Power to Christian Nationalists

We always knew that Trump’s return to the White House would bring Christian nationalism to the highest levels of government. There’s Russell...

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Fox News Hires a Trump Family Member to Host a Saturday Night Show

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...

06.02.2025 4

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A Bill Supporting Critical Services For Victims of Abuse Gets Another Chance In Congress

A bill that would help fund critical services for millions of victims of domestic and sexual violence, including children, is getting a second chance...

05.02.2025 6

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Congressional Democrats Step Up Fight Against Elon’s Shadow Presidency

Gathered outside the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development in downtown Washington, DC, on Monday, a fiery group of congressional...

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How Trump Makes Tragedies Worse, A History

President Trump’s baseless claims that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are responsible for the tragic, late-night plane collision in...

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An Unqualified “Predator”: Caroline Kennedy Urges Senate Not to Confirm Her Cousin RFK Jr.

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...

29.01.2025 10

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Trump Tax Cuts Not Just Good For Billionaires, Say Billionaires

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...

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Colombia’s President Rejects Trump’s Deportation Flights

On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, claimed in an interview that aired on ABC that international leaders would not...

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