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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....
Voters cast their ballots during the early voting process at a polling station ahead of the 2024 presidential election in Los Angeles. Qian...
A researcher performs a rapid antigen test on milk from a dairy cow inoculated against bird flu in a containment building at the National Animal...
A 24-hour Yonhapnews TV broadcast at Yongsan Railway Station shows South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering a special address at the...
The Khamis Ghaban family, who fled Israeli attacks and took refuge in the Legislative Council building that was destroyed in Israeli attacks due to...
Mother Jones illustration; Ben Allan Smith/The Missoulian/AP; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Last week, Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News anchor and Donald...
Rebecca Cooke, the Democratic congressional candidate in Wisconsin's 3rd district. Cooke for Congress Rebecca Cooke has spent many nights this year...
Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma In 2015, Clay Higgins started his climb to Congress with a series of videos promising to...
Yahya Sinwar became chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau after his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed. Sinwar was killed by IDF soldiers...
Rep. Clay Higgins in Washington, DC, in 2022. (Tom Williams/Getty) On Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) posted a mocking, racist tweet...
President Joe Biden meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in July. (Susan Walsh/AP) This February, President Joe Biden...
Mother Jones; Chip Somodevilla/Getty At the center of the two biggest controversies of JD Vance’s short political career have been cats. The...
Justin Sullivan/Getty On Monday morning, a friend texted Vilès Dorsainvil to ask if he’d seen the claims circulating on social media. Dorsainvil,...
AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais A young racist man who spends too much time online should have heard a lot to like from Donald Trump during Tuesday’s...
Mother Jones illustration; Photos courtesy of Noah Lanard and Nate Gowdy Delegates with the Uncommitted movement at the Democratic National...