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How DOGE Will Try to Dodge Transparency

How DOGE Will Try to Dodge Transparency

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency he had promised after winning the 2024...

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Trump’s “Wildly Illegal” Spending Gambit

Trump’s “Wildly Illegal” Spending Gambit

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...

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Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban

Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban

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...

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The Supreme Court May Let TikTok Go Dark

The Supreme Court May Let TikTok Go Dark

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...

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Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Felony Sentencing to Proceed

Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Felony Sentencing to Proceed

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...

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Corruption Is About to Get Worse, Thanks to the Supreme Court

Pool/Abaca/Zuma Tim Mossholder/Unsplash It’s an open question how well American democracy will withstand a second Trump presidency. Donald Trump...

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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Belittling, Abusing, and Lying to Women

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...

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Democrats Weigh New Leadership to Resist Trump

Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Democrats will have the unenviable task of pushing back against a second Trump administration as the minority party across...

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Trump’s FCC Pick Wants to Intimidate Broadcasters and Enrich Trump Allies

Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP During this year’s campaign, Donald Trump disowned Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation agenda that would transform the...

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How John Roberts Brought Back Donald Trump

Mother Jones illustration; Leah Millisl/Getty There will be endless ink spilled over the 2024 election, trying to sort out the overlapping reasons...

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Bomb Scares Bearing Moscow’s Fingerprints Seem Intended to Help Donald Trump

A voter leaves a polling place after voting on November 5, 2024, in Rutledge, Georgia. Mother Jones illustration; John Bazemore/AP It started with...

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Republicans on Track to Take Senate Control

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...

06.11.2024 1

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Russia Just Tried to Disrupt Georgia Voting With a Phony Bomb Scare

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 /...

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Justice Alito Has Already Set the Stage for a Supreme Court Election Showdown

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...

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Trump Promises to Prosecute His Enemies if Elected. The Media Is Already Getting a Taste.

Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Donald Trump has promised to prosecute his political opponents should he retake the White House. He’s planned to remove...

01.11.2024 1

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Will Democracy Survive Another Trump Win?

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....

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In 2024, Women’s Futures Are on the Ballot Like Never Before

Mother Jones illustration; Winstead Barnes/Xinhua/Zuma; Unsplash If the polls are right, the United States is headed for the largest Election Day...

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This Is What Happens When Judges Audition for Trump’s Supreme Court

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...

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New Report Reveals the Shadowy Money Behind the Plot to Overturn the Election

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...

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Trump Has a Plan to Win Without the Votes—and the Fight Is On to Stop Him

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...

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Elon Musk Is Directing All X Litigation Toward His Favorite Judge

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...

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Are You Ready for Another Bush v. Gore? The Supreme Court Is.

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...

04.10.2024 3

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Vance Says He’s Pro-Family. Just Not Keeping Families Together.

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...

02.10.2024 2

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The New Era of Deadly Back-Alley Abortions Is Here

Kamala Harris arriving in Georgia for a Friday event highlighting abortion access. Brynn Anderson/AP Kamala Harris‘ campaign is highlighting the...

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The Trump Plan to Prosecute Election Officials and Suppress the Vote

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Former President Donald Trump has been very clear about his intentions if he returns to power: He will take...

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The Trump Plan to Prosecute Election Officials and Suppress the Vote

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Former President Donald Trump has been very clear about his intentions if he returns to power: He will take...

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Prosecutor vs. Felon: The Narrative That Dominated the DNC Was Powerful…and Problematic

Mother Jones illustration; Eric Risberg/AP, Steven Hirsch/New York Post/AP A familiar script echoed throughout the United Center arena on Monday...

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Democrats Used Project 2025 to Rebrand Freedom. It’s Working.

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...

22.08.2024 2

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Coach Walz Gives Democrats a Pep Talk

Tim Walz smiles on stage. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images America loves a sports metaphor. On the third night of the Democratic National Convention...

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Meet the Oldest Delegate at the DNC

Sam Van Pykeren/Mother Jones In 1944, the Democratic Party held its convention in Chicago, where it nominated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to...

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She Was Denied Care for a Miscarriage. Now She’s Campaigning with Kamala Harris.

Kaitlyn Joshua addresses the crowd at the 2024 DNC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, three...

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DNC Delegates Want Their Woman to Win—for All Women’s Sake

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...

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Why Project 2025 Caught On

Gina M Randazzo/Zuma For the entirety of his political life, Trump has deployed a strategy of pumping endless toxic content into the political...

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