Emily St. John Mandel still has hope.
Mother Jonesby Ruth Murai23d ago
Emily St. John Mandel is perhaps best known for her 2014 novel Station Eleven, which presciently depicted a devastating global pandemic.
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top 89%Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail ballot scheme
Mother Jonesby Pema Levy and Ari Berman23d ago
President Donald Trump’s latest effort to steal the midterms has played out in plain view. His plan was to force states to conform to last minute, untested, and too-late-to-implement vote-by-mail...
Stop trying to sell us Chris Brown's redemption arc
Mother Jonesby Arianna Coghill24d ago
“Your courage is contagious.” In May 2026, while staring directly into the eyes of three of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein—during a congressional hearing on the late financier’s sprawling web of...
A new DHS report proves Alligator Alcatraz detainees were right all along
Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel24d ago
Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigrant detention camp erected in the Florida Everglades last year, routinely held detainees in “small metal enclosures” with just 18 square feet of floor space...
States and cities sue to stop Trump’s immigrant “wealth test” rule before it takes effect
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz24d ago
New York is leading a 22-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully expanding the “public charge” rules that restrict entry to the United States for immigrants deemed likely to...
The Proud Boys next door
Mother Jonesby Lisa Armstrong24d ago
Michael Premo was gasping for air. It was January 6, 2021, and Premo and his partner, fellow filmmaker Rachel Falcone, were crushed against a wall in the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the US...
States already have a good way to ensure election integrity—and MAGA hates it
Mother Jonesby Michael Mechanic24d ago
In January 2022, at an event hosted by one of the scores of local “election integrity” groups inspired by Donald Trump’s fraudulent assertion that voter fraud had cost him the 2020 election...
Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make you sick
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz25d ago
While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate...
Trump keeps using “national security” to do what he wants
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz25d ago
President Donald Trump has a favorite justification for everything he does: “It’s a national security matter.” After 9/11, the United States built a vast, powerful, and generally unchecked national...
Ted Cruz pushed his college sports bill on ESPN—and was booed mercilessly
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen26d ago
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the heavyweight college football matchup between Texas and Ohio State, during an...
Fear "the Blob": Relentless marine heat waves threaten to scramble ocean life
Mother Jonesby Jim Robbins26d ago
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
ICE at the polls? Ain't never gonna happen, says this voting expert
Mother Jonesby Michael Mechanic27d ago
At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a “fiercly nonpartisan” nonprofit...
What Does FBI Director Kash Patel Actually Do?
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen27d ago
FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be very bad at his job. This was confirmed yet again on Thursday, when national security journalist Seth Hettena found documents showing Patel instructing his team...
I’ve covered Islamophobia for years. Trump's GOP has taken it to a new level.
Mother Jonesby Tim Murphy27d ago
What do Republican officials think of the nation’s roughly 4.5 million Muslims? No need to ask—they’ll just tell you. “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” says Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee.
"We’ve been told there’s another plane in the air and it’s heading here"
Mother Jonesby David Corn27d ago
It’s been 25 years since the horrific attacks of 9/11. In the immediate aftermath, there was a hope that this nightmare would compel the nation to adopt a more serious approach to politics and...
The religion of national security
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz27d ago
Anyone who’s camped out at a folk music festival and has been woken up at 2 a.m. by a blaringly rendered version of “Bella Ciao” knows that trumpet players are terrorists.
Utah's voters would like their national monuments back, thank you
Mother Jonesby Wyatt Myskow27d ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Don't be fooled—Congress isn't cracking down on OpenAI
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen28d ago
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked Hugging Face, another AI startup, during internal testing.
Anthropic staffers sound the alarm—again—on AI catatrophe
Mother Jonesby Satchel Walton28d ago
On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the AI firm Anthropic—saying that both that company and OpenAI, his previous employer, were “gambling with our lives” by developing...
Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000
Mother Jonesby Inae Oh28d ago
The year is 2026, and by now, you know, with clarity, that Donald Trump is a brazen liar with an unusually impressive record of promising free cash—only to rarely ever fulfill those lofty pledges.