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Mother Jonesby James West26 Aug 2026
Last night, I watched Straight Talk, the 1992 Dolly vehicle in which the singer plays, yes, a straight-talker from Arkansas who, through a series of highly predictable accidents, becomes Chicago’s...
Mother Jonesby Maria Gallucci26 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Mother Jonesby Inae Oh26 Aug 2026
Over the course of nearly a month, Lindsay Clancy has stood trial for the January 2023 killings of her three young children, a catastrophic tragedy that has riveted the country.
Mother Jonesby Pema Levy26 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court may be deferential to President Donald Trump and the legal arguments put forward by his Justice Department.
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen25 Aug 2026
On Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on the US in response to the Trump administration’s...
Mother Jonesby Ari Berman24 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily handed President Trump a key victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting.
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen24 Aug 2026
On Monday afternoon, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US would impose all-encompassing sanctions on countries and institutions that conduct business with Iran...
Mother Jonesby Rachel Santarsiero24 Aug 2026
Deadly heatwaves in May smashed records in the UK, France, Spain, and parts of North Africa. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh saw April temperatures soar to 113-122 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen23 Aug 2026
As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a New York Liberty game Saturday to support transgender people in sports and...
Mother Jonesby Satchel Walton23 Aug 2026
As many AI researchers have been increasingly fraught with existential terror about their own creations this summer, their alarm is spreading among policymakers and the media.
Mother Jonesby Johnny Sturgeon23 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz22 Aug 2026
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s policy of pushing unhoused people toward incarceration.
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz22 Aug 2026
This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for people from 75 countries because, he said, those immigrants would be more likely...
Mother Jonesby David Corn22 Aug 2026
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles...
Mother Jonesby Adam Mahoney22 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Mother Jonesby Dan Friedman21 Aug 2026
Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs was charactered by brash, bumbling efforts to use the department to punish...
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz21 Aug 2026
Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated license plate reader cameras to some 6,000 police departments across the US, is...
Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel21 Aug 2026
In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary, strolled onto the stage of Florida Republicans’...
Mother Jonesby Chris Stein21 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Mother Jonesby Sara Sneath21 Aug 2026
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer.
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