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Tesla’s Deadbeat CEO Is Coming Back
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Amid plunging stock prices and a staggering 71 percent profit drop, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pivoting back to his day job. “My time obligation to DOGE will drop significantly,” Musk told investors Tuesday after the…
Read MoreThe Parental Rights Movement Has a Big Day at the Supreme Court
Parental rights advocates protest outside the Supreme Court, where justices heard oral arguments in a major religious-freedom case.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Montgomery County, Maryland, is the most religiously diverse county in the United States. When its Board of…
Read MoreHow Trump Exploits Working Class Pain
President Donald Trump is joined by coal miners at the White House on April 8, 2025.Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Arlie Hochschild, an award-winning author and sociologist, has spent years talking with people living in rural parts of the country who…
Read MoreClimate Groups Get a Reprieve From Trump’s Rumored Earth Day Massacre
Mother Jones illustration; Anna Moneymaker/Getty; Christian Monterrosa/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As Americans celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday, the nonprofit world was left anxiously wondering, “Will they or won’t they?” For the past week, rumors have abounded that the Trump administration would…
Read More“Americans Will Be Less Safe”: An Author of the Country’s Biggest Climate Report Reflects on Its Gutting
Joe Sohm/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Trump administration is coming for the National Climate Assessment. Officials reportedly cut funding for the federal program behind the congressionally mandated report, which describes how climate change affects everything from agriculture and transportation to human…
Read MoreFlorida Is Leading Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Mother Jones illustration; Gage Skidmore/Zuma, Kremlin Pool/Zuma; Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Earlier this year, Republican lawmakers in Florida passed a slew of immigration bills that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed less than an hour after they were sent…
Read MoreOver 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks
Hundreds of colleges, universities and scholarly societies in the U.S. have pledged to resist the Trump administration’s “unprecedented” all-out attacks on higher education as the president targets universities with massive funding revocations and other retribution. Over 200 institutions have signed a statement, published Tuesday, calling for leaders in higher education to rise to the moment…
Read MoreConservative Justices May Upend School District’s LGBTQ-Inclusive Lessons
U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments today in a case regarding religious parents’ objections to their students having to participate in a school district’s LGBTQ-inclusive language arts curriculum. Conservative Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, sued the public school district, alleging that, because they weren’t allowed to opt their children out…
Read MoreEarth Day Sees Mobilized Resistance to Trump’s Planet-Destroying Policies
As green groups honor the 55th annual Earth Day on Tuesday, environmental leaders are highlighting the need to fight back against the detrimental climate policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and his “billionaire allies,” even as they brace for the possibility of further federal action that could hamper the climate movement. Since entering office, Trump…
Read MoreTrump-Linked Lobbyists Are Having a Hopping Good Time
Donald Trump with the Easter Bunny at the White House Easter Egg Roll, April 21, 2025.AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump doesn’t talk about “draining the swamp” nearly as much as he did in his first term, but his…
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