The far right can’t stand being called “far right”
Mother Jonesby Anna Merlan28d ago
On Sunday, the German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) won a resounding—and disturbing—victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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top 76%Will Putin's decade-long war on US elections hit the midterms?
Mother Jonesby David Corn28d ago
In July 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, then–director of national intelligence, strode into the White House briefing room to press the case that Barack Obama had mounted a “treasonous conspiracy.” Days...
Soaring insurance prices are hitting Black and Hispanic homeowners hardest
Mother Jonesby Amy Green28d ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Blue-state hospitals fold on trans youth care as families ask why they moved
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz28d ago
Last week, the Mount Sinai hospital system in New York—which sees about 6 million outpatient visits per year—announced that it had reached a settlement with the Department of Justice, agreeing to...
Trump's Venezuela deal helps his rich friends—and that's it
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen29d ago
The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US take control of 65 billion barrels worth of oil fields and a significant share of the country’s...
Sam Altman Gets Hollywood's Mark Zuckerberg treatment
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen29d ago
“Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in the teaser trailer for Artificial.
Teachers union and Microsoft just made an AI safety deal. Complains is an open question.
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen29d ago
On Wednesday morning, in a Manhattan press room containing about 50 reporters and union members, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the US announced an agreement with Microsoft that, among...
Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.
Mother Jonesby Samantha Michaels29d ago
A massive immigration operation is happening in Memphis. It’s been underway for just under a year now—hundreds of arrests, streets filled with officers.
The UK banned imports from Israeli settlements. Progressives are urging the US to follow suit.
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz29d ago
On September 8, the British government banned the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The impossible struggle to demine Gaza
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz and Rachel Santarsiero29d ago
When an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped an explosive that didn’t immediately detonate, Walaa thought her family was safe.
A MAGA activist flooded Georgia with voter challenges. Now he works for the State Election Board.
Mother Jonesby Abby Vesoulis29d ago
Sporting a pumpkin-orange button-down and aggressively furrowed eyebrows, Jason Frazier approached the lectern at a Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Board meeting in March 2023.
Trump's mysterious $45,000 cash gift to Natalie Harp
Mother Jonesby Inae Oh29d ago
The national gossip over Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump’s most devoted aide and “human printer,” has now reached the natural stage to which most stories closely associated with the president...
Watch Trump falsely suggest he was pulled from Ground Zero on 9/11.
Mother Jonesby Sam Van Pykeren8 Sept 2026
Where was Donald Trump on 9/11? Getting pulled from Ground Zero by firefighters, he seemed to claim on Tuesday. Nup.
Gloria Steinem, a dangerous woman
Mother Jonesby David Corn8 Sept 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...
Dems ask for probe into Trump team's handling of anniversary data
Mother Jonesby Dan Friedman8 Sept 2026
This summer, the Trump administration celebrated the country’s 250th anniversary with a series of splashy events that it insisted were nonpartisan.
The woman profiting off the WNBA's trans panic
Mother Jonesby Madison Pauly8 Sept 2026
Jennifer Sey had been waiting for an athlete like Sophie Cunningham. Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear startup that openly calls transgender people’s identity a “lie,” has spent the...
Cops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have to
Mother Jonesby E.J. Graff8 Sept 2026
Since 2020, President Donald Trump and his allies have been hinting that they might send federal forces to “protect” polling places—hints that have come more frequently as Trump’s approval ratings...
John Fetterman accuses “disgruntled staffers” of spreading “lies”
Mother Jonesby Anna Merlan6 Sept 2026
Sen. John Fetterman responded angrily this weekend to a recent Wall Street Journal report, which quoted former staffers and the senator’s own alleged text messages to demonstrate his waning...
Trump wants to make sure every voter knows the midterms are a referendum on Trump
Mother Jonesby Anna Merlan6 Sept 2026
Republican politicians are heading to Texas next week—some of them, anyway. At Donald Trump’s behest, the party is holding a special midterm convention in Dallas to celebrate what the president...
Wind power has benefitted North Dakota. So why have residents soured on it?
Mother Jonesby Daniel Cusick6 Sept 2026
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. George Wolff offered a cautious greeting through the window of my rented F-150.