Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·1d ago
Martin Soto, a Peruvian man thrown into solitary confinement after organizing a hunger and labor strike inside the notorious for-profit ICE detention facility Delaney Hall, was released from New...
Fear kept immigrants away from Medicaid. Now many can't come back.
Mother Jonesby Mariana Duran·1d ago
Laura doesn’t know what she’s going to do when her medication runs out. For years, she relied on Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, to cover the costs of treating her Type 2 diabetes...
Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Mother Jonesby Samantha Michaels·1d ago
The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are...
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·1d ago
A newly released military study paints a frightening picture of the electric shock gloves ICE recently purchased by the thousands—and which the agency and its acting head David Venturella seem...
Artificial goes after our Silicon Valley overlords—just not very well
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen·1d ago
The world premiere of Artificial, the new movie centered around the rise of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as he led an unstable company down a dangerous path, was packed.
Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Mother Jonesby Arianna Coghill·1d ago
In the months leading up to Christa Pike’s execution date, she and her legal team made it clear that she, the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row, 50 years old, wasn’t afraid to die.
“They knew, they lied”: Fire survivors bring their fight to the Supreme Court’s steps
Mother Jonesby Rachel Santarsiero·2d ago
On Monday morning outside the Supreme Court, as Justices heard arguments concerning a landmark climate liability lawsuit, a rally organized by the Center for Climate Integrity and Fossil Free Media...
California's mail ballot system excludes disabled voters, court rules
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·2d ago
A federal court struck down a California rule that required voters to sign and return vote-by-mail ballots on paper, rather than doing so electronically.
Christian nationalism's grip on American faith is finally breaking
Mother Jonesby Rob Schenck·2d ago
Like many conservative evangelical pastors with whom I had worked for almost four decades, Rev. David Corbett is a mild-mannered, white-haired, avuncular 75-year-old who carries a handgun on his...
Out of Sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel·2d ago
Last month, I wrote about a DHS Office of Inspector General report that revealed alarming conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz, an immigrant detention center opened last summer in the Everglades...
A federal judge slams the brakes on Big Bend border wall construction
Mother Jonesby Martha Pskowski·2d ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Is Hollywood finally turning on tech oligarchs?
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen·2d ago
Big Tech is back on the big screen—but its bosses might not be thrilled. This fall, Hollywood will release four movies on tech executives: Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, on CEO Sam Altman’s...
RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent
Mother Jonesby Anna Merlan·3d ago
In remarks delivered before a MAHA audience at the Waldorf Astoria in D.C. last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Why do Democrats keep posting videos of themselves pumping iron?
Mother Jonesby Tim Murphy·3d ago
After a historic setback in 2024, the Democratic rebrand appears to be working out. No, seriously—the rebrand is that they’re all filming themselves working out.
“You kidnapped my son”
Mother Jonesby Samantha Michaels and Isabela Dias·3d ago
For several days this spring, trapped inside a Texas immigration detention center, Luis made frantic phone calls, one after the other, to everyone he could think of.
Trump’s appearance in Ohio underscores all the reasons the GOP is unpopular
Mother Jonesby Arianna Coghill·4d ago
On Saturday, President Donald Trump hosted a campaign rally for Ohio senatorial and gubernatorial candidates, John Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy.
How a Bolsonaro biopic ended up at the center of Brazil's presidential election
Mother Jonesby Isabela Dias and Maria Martha Bruno·4d ago
This article is a partnership with Agência Pública. In May, now-presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, shared on his social...
Does Jared Kushner know what a conflict of interest is?
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·4d ago
CNN published an investigation earlier this week detailing how an investment fund operated by Jared Kushner, who has acted as a key Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiator and leader on Trump’s Gaza...
Welcome to the Flock elections
Mother Jonesby Chasity Hale and Sophie Hurwitz·4d ago
Over the past six months, Americans have become increasingly aware of automated license plate readers, used by almost 80 percent of American police departments to trace vehicles and their drivers...
Daniel Ellsberg’s stories of courage and foreboding
Mother Jonesby Edward Wasserman·5d ago
Daniel Ellsberg’s ninth and final book, Truth and Consequence, was published this spring, three years after his passing, and this is a fitting moment—a time of political upheaval much like the one...
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