ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz15d ago
On September 17, immigration attorney Rachel Marandett went looking for a man held by ICE in the agency’s detainee locator.
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top 86%JD Vance is coming for your Obamacare
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz15d ago
The Trump administration is removing about 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act coverage, Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz announced...
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
Mother Jonesby Ari Berman and Pema Levy15d ago
On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,” descended on Baton Rouge to oppose a plan by Louisiana’s Republican-controlled...
Decades of harm: New York schools named in nearly 2,000 child sex abuse claims
Mother Jonesby Amanda Geduld15d ago
This article was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit news outlet covering education in the US. Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse.
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
Mother Jonesby Nina Martin15d ago
When Louisiana authorities tried to extradite a California doctor last winter for sending abortion pills to women in their state, Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back—hard.
Trump-appointed judge smacks down EPA's termination of clean energy grants
Mother Jonesby Amy Green15d ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Trump threatens to "annihilate" Iran and its people in UN address
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen16d ago
President Trump’s rambling, combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most serious quagmire yet—the war in Iran—telling world leaders that he was...
The party’s over. But Trump’s America 250 anniversary may never end.
Mother Jonesby Dan Friedman16d ago
The Trump administration says it plans to shut down Freedom 250, the quasi-private organization it used to take over the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
The Trump administration’s hard-on for AI, explained
Mother Jonesby Anna Merlan16d ago
In recent weeks, a fresh crop of people connected to the artificial intelligence industry have emerged to warn that AI is possibly going to kill us all, spreading the word with various degrees of...
Time to revisit Trump-Russia collusion
Mother Jonesby David Corn16d ago
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...
The bizarre backstory of the Trump-endorsed sticker mogul who could be headed to Congress
Mother Jonesby Noah Lanard16d ago
Anthony Constantino, the Republican nominee in upstate New York’s 21st congressional district, is not subtle in his fealty to Donald Trump.
One Miami district is testing how far Trump has fallen with Latino voters
Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel16d ago
Since 2021, US Rep. María Elvira Salazar has represented the 27th congressional district in Miami-Dade County, where more than 70 percent of residents are Hispanic.
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Mother Jonesby Monika Bauerlein16d ago
The world is freaking out about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and no wonder: Every day brings news of AI agents breaking out of containment, hacking their way through the internet, and...
Midterm power shifts could reshape state climate and energy policies
Mother Jonesby Dan Gearino17d ago
This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The California lawmaker forcing Big Food to clean up its act
Mother Jonesby Jane Black17d ago
Editor’s Note: When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed, vaccine-rejecting, food label-reading Make America Healthy Again...
Trump wants to make his massive triumphal arch a killing machine
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen18d ago
President Donald Trump said that he plans to make his proposed 250-foot arch in Washington, DC, a “top grade military complex” that holds large stores of weaponry, citing national security reasons...
Which side Is Ed Sheeran on?
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen18d ago
Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping for.
An Idaho county banned wind and solar projects. Some locals are having regrets.
Mother Jonesby Julia Tilton18d ago
This story was originally co-published by Canary Media and the Daily Yonder, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jeff Hough did not pull any punches.
What to know about Trump’s new “infinite” Greenland deal
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz19d ago
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to give the US “permanent control over security, and all other needs,” in...
In rare move, Democrats try to block a sale of bombs to Israel
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz19d ago
The top Democrats on the House and Senate foreign affairs committees this week announced their intent to block a $2.8 billion sale of 60,000 one-ton bombs to Israel.