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It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was closing in on his presidency. A grand jury had subpoenaed secret...
In modern America, religious education is offered in private schools or in a homeschooling setting. Public education, by contrast, is secular, because...
On Tuesday, a group of religious parents had their day at the Supreme Court, hoping the justices would grant them something extraordinary: the ability...
A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was...
At any moment, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration admits it...
Just a few months ago, Americans’ optimism about the economy was on the rise. The stock market boomed after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and...
When Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) went from a likely no vote on confirming Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary to an easy yes, the switch was...
President Donald Trump has a new hobbyhorse: That his predecessor, President Joe Biden, didn’t legally grant pardons to people Trump wants to harass...
In an extraordinary show of the power that Elon Musk now exercises over the United States government, last week he joined a cabinet meeting in which...
Nearly two months into President Donald Trump’s lawless dismantling of the federal government, a small agency has stood up with a tell-all lawsuit....
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court issued its first decision in Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s escalating war on government agencies and...
According to Elon Musk’s posts on X, the social media platform he acquired through allegedly illegal tactics, Musk is discovering lawbreaking...
Last spring, then–presidential nominee Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to grant him criminal immunity for all his official acts while he was in...
Late Friday, newly sworn-in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave access to the agency’s payments system to representatives of the so-called...
As he ran for a second term, President Donald Trump promised to impose sweeping tariffs. On Saturday, he pressed the launch button. In three executive...
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency he had promised after winning the 2024...
On day seven of Donald Trump’s new presidency, his administration issued an order of possibly unrivaled lawlessness via a two-page memo directing a...
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a ban on TikTok to take effect. Last year, President Joe Biden signed a law that would ban the platform unless its...
The Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments on the future of TikTok—whether to let the platform go dark on January 19 according to a bipartisan...
The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly denied President-elect Donald Trump’s last ditch effort to delay his sentencing in the New York hush money...
Pool/Abaca/Zuma Tim Mossholder/Unsplash It’s an open question how well American democracy will withstand a second Trump presidency. Donald Trump...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma After contemplating a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors Wednesday, the Supreme Court...
Mattie Neretin/CNP/Zuma Pete Hegseth, the Fox News anchor whom Donald Trump has tapped to be his defense secretary, has come under intense scrutiny...
Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Democrats will have the unenviable task of pushing back against a second Trump administration as the minority party across...
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP During this year’s campaign, Donald Trump disowned Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation agenda that would transform the...
Mother Jones illustration; Leah Millisl/Getty There will be endless ink spilled over the 2024 election, trying to sort out the overlapping reasons...
A voter leaves a polling place after voting on November 5, 2024, in Rutledge, Georgia. Mother Jones illustration; John Bazemore/AP It started with...
Mother Jones illustration; Matt Rourke/AP, Jeff Dean/AP, Morry Gash/AP The Republican Party is on track to win control of the Senate, a significant...
People wait in line to vote on the last day of early voting at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 1, 2024. (Elijah Nouvelage /...
Justice Samuel Alito sits during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty...
Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Donald Trump has promised to prosecute his political opponents should he retake the White House. He’s planned to remove...
JD Vance speaks in Racine, Wisconsin. Scott Olson/Getty If Donald Trump wins a second term, he will enter the White House at 78 years old, making...
Spencer Platt/Getty Donald Trump may be a known quantity. He’s been a public figure for decades, a television star, and president from 2017-2021....
Mother Jones illustration; Winstead Barnes/Xinhua/Zuma; Unsplash If the polls are right, the United States is headed for the largest Election Day...
Mail ballots from Florida's 2024 primary elections. Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Nearly half of states accept mail-in ballots that were mailed...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Here’s one way Trump and his allies could disrupt and even overturn the 2024 election: It starts with stoking rumors...
Mother Jones; Alex Brandon/AP; Joe Raedle/Getty Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box. But this year, Donald Trump’s campaign...
Mother Jones; Marc Piasecki/Getty If you have a problem with X, you could be forced to take it up with Elon Musk’s favorite judge. Starting...
Mother Jones illustration; Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty; Win McNamee/Pool/AP The Supreme Court will begin a new term on Monday, in which it is set...
Mother Jones; Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty I’m rubber, you’re glue. That’s the Trump campaign’s strategy when it comes to the cruelest part of former...
Kamala Harris arriving in Georgia for a Friday event highlighting abortion access. Brynn Anderson/AP Kamala Harris‘ campaign is highlighting the...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Former President Donald Trump has been very clear about his intentions if he returns to power: He will take...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Former President Donald Trump has been very clear about his intentions if he returns to power: He will take...
Mother Jones illustration; Eric Risberg/AP, Steven Hirsch/New York Post/AP A familiar script echoed throughout the United Center arena on Monday...
Harris will host a "reproductive freedom event" in Phoenix to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade. Kyle...
Tim Walz smiles on stage. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images America loves a sports metaphor. On the third night of the Democratic National Convention...
Sam Van Pykeren/Mother Jones In 1944, the Democratic Party held its convention in Chicago, where it nominated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to...
Kaitlyn Joshua addresses the crowd at the 2024 DNC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, three...
Nate Gowdy for Mother Jones A name that looms large in Chicago this week belongs to a woman who died 19 years ago. Shirley Chisholm, the first...
Gina M Randazzo/Zuma For the entirety of his political life, Trump has deployed a strategy of pumping endless toxic content into the political...