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Earlier this month, the Commonwealth Fund published the results of its biannual survey on the state of health insurance coverage in the United States....
Amid the frenzied coverage of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson‘s assassination and the public’s troubling reaction to it were references to various...
As you may know, our felonious president-elect put billionaire Elon Musk and wannabe billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of a commission—though...
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 ...
Mother Jones illustration; Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty In the coming days, you will hear every imaginable take on why Americans voted...
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...
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Elon Musk, far and away the richest man on the planet, is pouring tens of millions of dollars into efforts to get Donald...
Carolyn Kaster/AP Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1, making him the oldest former president. According to his family, Carter, also a former...
Jimmy Carter, then 99, at the funeral for his wife, Rosalynn, on Nov. 29, 2023. Alex Brandon/Pool/Getty Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1,...
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...
Michelle Obama at the DNC on Tuesday. Nate Gowdy It’s fair to say that Michelle Obama stole the show at the Democratic Convention on Tuesday....
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...
Mother Jones; Andrew Rice/Unsplash; Getty Campaign finance disclosures are made public too ridiculously slowly to be of much use for real-time...
Mother Jones illustration; Erin Schaff/The New York Times/AP; Getty Just when the IRS was starting to get its mojo back, the Supreme Court had to...
Mother Jones; Engin Akyurt; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash (2) In December, I published an interview with the tax policy expert and attorney Steve...
Trump basks in the love of his supporters at a rally in Phoenix on June 6. Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire Donald Trump may have lost in the...
Almost as predictably as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the rich grow richer. “Wealth concentration in a few hands is the single...
Mother Jones illustration; Sebastian Gollnow/DPA/ZUMA Despite Elon Musk’s enshittification of Twitter, to borrow a term from the novelist and...
Mother Jones; Getty Are you better off now than you were when Donald Trump was president? That’s a dumb question for Republicans to pose, because...
When Americans of a certain age hear the word “paraquat,” the first thing that might leap to mind is Mexican weed. That’s because, in the late...
Mother Jones illustration; photo by Hilary Jones Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable . But we need to...
Alexander Wells When the US targeted Russia’s oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, the trail of assets kept leading to our own backyard. Not...
German-Austrian millionaire heiress Marlene Engelhorn, part of the effort described below, expresses her views during a rally at the World Economic...
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, following a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Manuel...
Alfalfa hay is a water-intensive crop, and exporting it is equivalent to exporting precious groundwater. Jack Richardson Water is life. It’s also...