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The Founding Fathers, having recently helped throw off the yoke of British colonial rule, were understandably concerned about foreign governments...
Congress put rules in place ages ago to ensure that federal appointees and employees (including judges) don’t use their jobs to enrich themselves....
Musk isn't helping Trump out of the goodness of his own heart. Brandon Bell/Pool/AP A news clip making the rounds Sunday morning had CNN’s Dana...
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash About a month ago, the Commonwealth Fund published the results of its biannual survey on the state of health...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Amid the frenzied coverage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson‘s assassination and the public’s troubling...
Mother Jones illustration; Grzegorz Wajda / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/AP, Alex Brandon/AP As you may know, our felonious president-elect put mega-...
Linda McMahon, former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Educators are flipping out...
Trump shakes hands with Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh, October 23, 2019. Evan Vucci/AP...
Election workers in Nevada's Washoe County in 2022 Mother Jones illustration; Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/Zuma Nevada’s secretary of state, the New...
Carolyn Kaster/AP Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1, making him the oldest former president. According to his family, Carter, also a former...
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on December 22, 2017, displaying his signature on the Republican tax overhaul package. Mother Jones...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Donald Trump presidency—you know, that document...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Do you have $100 million? I don’t. Heck, I don’t even have $50 million! Which is why I’m not worried about the...
Mother Jones illustration; Emily Elconin/Getty; Getty(3) Mormons would probably be psyched. The Republican Party less so. I’m talking about what...
Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago press conference, August. 8, 2024. Alex Brandon/AP Have you seen any of those clips from Donald Trump’s rambling...
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty The internet has been burning up this past week with the many, many faux pas—faux paws?—of Donald...
Erin Schaff/The New York Times/AP; Anthony Behar/Sipa/AP “You can tell a lot by a laugh,” Donald Trump told supporters the other day, reviving a...
Mother Jones; Andrew Rice/Unsplash; Getty Campaign finance disclosures are made public too ridiculously slowly to be of much use for real-time...