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If you were to invent a politician ideally suited to appeal to the MAGA base, you might come up with something like this: A classically handsome white...
Joe Kent has resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran. Kent,...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has come up with a plan to limit the independence of Stars and Stripes, the news publication for...
Amid surging oil prices and an unpopular war of choice in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening not to renew the...
There’s more bad news for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Epstein files: Previously unreported documents show he hasn’t been...
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to more than a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills, watched hours of court testimony, and reviewed hundreds...
Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday that his administration has secured a more than $5 million settlement with three delivery app...
Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who terrorized people across America in his Nazi-like trench coat, is being put out to pasture...
Not long ago, President Donald Trump had a clear opinion of Venezuelan oil. Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, he called the country’s crude...
On Wednesday, a masked federal immigration officer killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother and poet, shooting her at point-blank range in her...
A little more than four years ago, Zohran Mamdani announced from a lectern in Manhattan’s City Hall Park that he was about to go on hunger strike....
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that it needs to send the military into American cities because of the unique danger faced by federal...
On Saturday, countless people gathered at “No Kings” protests in thousands of cities and towns across the United States and the world. Their focus...
Perhaps the most notable thing about President Donald Trump’s Friday decision to commute the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.)...
After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration is now reportedly considering...
Last weekend, President Donald Trump flew to the Middle East to celebrate a ceasefire his administration helped broker between Hamas and Israel, after...
Former government officials rarely write good books. Whatever insights they may have acquired tend to be buried by self-justifying recriminations,...
On Tuesday, William G. Young—a federal district court judge in Massachusetts and a Reagan appointee—issued a decision filled with obvious contempt...
A group of more than 60 Democratic legislators sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday that expresses “grave concerns” about...
Jordan Lasker, an X user who goes by the username Crémieux, recently made news by providing the New York Times with hacked data that showed New York...
On Wednesday, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda poster on official accounts on X and Instagram. It featured...
On Wednesday, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to provide the due process it denied to Venezuelans in March when...
Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released from an immigration detention center in rural Louisiana in response to an order from...
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions from around the world. In February, Trump made one...
On Friday, Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the Trump administration had failed to comply with a court order requiring it to...
On Tuesday, just before midnight, Donald Trump posted a grotesque AI-generated video on social media that depicts a future Gaza as his proposed...
On February 13, Andrew Lennox, an administrative officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan, learned from an email that he had been...
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a new group pushed for President Donald Trump to serve an unconstitutional third term. The...
In 2021, Matthew Lohmeier, a lieutenant colonel in the Space Force and former Air Force fighter pilot, self-published Irresistible Revolution:...
In the three weeks since Donald Trump took office, Elon Musk has posted on X at the pace of an iPad-addicted child. During a roughly two-hour stretch...
The quotes from President Donald Trump’s press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do not do justice to the obscenity of the...
Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, completed 11 combat deployments during the...
On Sunday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States would cut aid to South Africa because the country is “confiscating...
Two decades ago, while serving in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, Steven Bradbury wrote a series of memos justifying waterboarding...
On Friday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would significantly increase the number of undocumented immigrants subject to mandatory detention...
In the early days of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden took some time to congratulate himself on a job well done. For...
There are holes in Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles’ personal story. Some have been relatively harmless fabrications. Ogles claimed to be...
With Donald Trump less than two weeks away from taking office and promising an agenda of mass deportations, Democrats are poised to hand Republicans...
Mother Jones illustration; Erin Hooley/AP The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year....