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Trump Administration Makes a New Push to Speed Up Deportations
Enforcement Operation in New York City.Handout/Ice/Planet Pix/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Trump White House is taking extra steps to try to deliver on the president’s signature campaign promise to conduct the largest mass deportation operation in US history. In an internal…
Read MoreCelebrating Reveal’s 10th Anniversary
Reveal host Al LetsonIllustration by Molly Mendoza Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. More than a decade ago, the Center for Investigative Reporting had a big investigation into how the Department of Veterans Affairs was worsening the opioid overdose crisis, and a big idea:…
Read MoreFirings at the Forest Service Are Decimating an Already Understaffed Agency
On a recent Friday afternoon, Marie Richards sat in her living room in northern Michigan. She was having a hard time talking about her job at the U.S. Forest Service in the past tense. “I absolutely loved my job,” she said. “I didn’t want to go.” Richards, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe…
Read MoreMike Johnson Lives in a Home Owned by Secretive and Influential Far-Right Pastor
In 2021, Steve Berger, an evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie” and called multinational institutions “demonic,” set off on an ambitious project. His stated goal: minister to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.” His base of operations would be…
Read MoreTrump Approves $3B in Arms to Israel as Freed Palestinians Recount Torture
The package includes nearly $2.716 billion in bombs and weapons guidance kits, as well as $295 million in bulldozers.
Read MoreTrump and Vance’s Oval Office Spat With Zelenskyy Provokes Global Reaction
A televised Oval Office screaming match between U.S. and Ukrainian leaders on Friday led to politicians worldwide reaffirming support for Ukraine, congressional Democrats decrying the Trump administration, and human rights advocates expressing alarm about what lies ahead. U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance took turns berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who reportedly…
Read MoreWhy “I’m Still Here” Should Win Best Picture at the Oscars
Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here.Sony Pictures Classics/Entertainment/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Growing up in Brazil around the turn of the millennium, I was too young to have lived through the violent years of the military dictatorship that lasted almost two decades…
Read MoreLocal Pro-Israel Policies in Miami Beach Helped Normalize Zionist Vigilantism
On November 4, 2024, the Miami Jewish Film Festival screened June Zero, an Israeli American film about the 1962 Israeli execution of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann. Miami Beach Mayor Steve Meiner opened the showing with remarks about the threat of antisemitism. In the speech, Meiner glorified Miami Beach as the best place in the entire…
Read MorePrivate Equity Firms Tighten Stranglehold on US, Angling for Boons Under Trump
Private equity has a well-deserved reputation as a ruthless industry that specializes in stripping and flipping companies to extract profits for wealthy investors and enrich its own billionaire CEOs. It’s an industry that increasingly dominates our lives. Private equity’s tentacles stretch across nearly every sector, including housing, hospitals, energy, prisons, retail and sports. With a…
Read MoreWith Clean, Stable Power, Costa Rica Shapes Up as Taiwan’s Chipmaking Rival
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