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2024 Broke the Democrats. Can They Put Themselves Back Together?

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For the first time in two decades, the Democratic Party has found itself without a clear political leader—or even an obvious frontrunner. Angry and adrift, voters are clashing with politicians over how to fight back.  Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. They’re also dealing with an uncomfortable new […]

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I’m a Farmer Who Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Are Stressing Me Out.

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Few have felt the whiplash of President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs with China more than American farmers. The US is the world’s largest exporter of agricultural products, from corn to soybeans, wheat, and cotton. And the largest importer of America’s farm products? China. The two countries have engaged in a back-and-forth series of escalating […]

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David Hogg’s Fight for the Future of the Democratic Party

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“It’s all gas, no brakes.” For David Hogg, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, there’s little time away from politics right now, especially considering his $20 million campaign to disrupt his own party.  Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and gun control advocate, is looking to oust what […]

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This Week’s Reveal Podcast: The EEOC’s Identity Crisis

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Dylan Bringuel remembers the exact moment they got hired by the Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown, New York. It was late August 2022, and Bringuel—who uses they/them pronouns—had recently moved across the country and was struggling to find work.  Bringuel is transgender and was upfront about their gender identity during the job interview. “ I was […]

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Rage and Resentment Are Killing the Great American Road Trip

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A record 45 million Americans were expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, long considered the unofficial kickoff to summer. And most of them were hitting the road. Sarah Kendzior is no stranger to the family road trip. Her family, in fact, has visited 38 states—and counting. These trips were born out of a love […]

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IDF Deliberately Targeting Children in Gaza, US Doctors Allege

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When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes—and came to a shocking conclusion. In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time […]

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She Denied Mel Gibson a Gun—Then Trump’s DOJ Fired Her

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When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. As a longtime public defender, Oyer was now in a position to advise the president on the backlog of thousands of individuals seeking presidential clemency. But earlier this year, her dream job ended abruptly. In March, […]

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This Week’s Reveal Podcast: Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother

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In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man killed six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. He didn’t suddenly “snap” one day out of the blue; he planned the attack and spiraled into crisis in the years leading up to it. The horrific incident left violence prevention experts […]

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Pet-Eating Lies to Deportation Fears: Haitians in Trump’s Crosshairs

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Lindsay Aime remembers the moment his Haitian immigrant community came under a national spotlight. It was September 2024 when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating people’s pets. To Aime, who is originally from Haiti but has lived in Springfield since 2019, the accusation was not just absurd. It felt […]

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Inside Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers

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In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama. And Marshall addressed rumors that he planned to prosecute anyone helping people get abortions out of state.   […]

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Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History

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President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs throughout the country. Few writers seem better suited to explain this unique moment in America than Nikole Hannah-Jones. A New York Times journalist and Howard University professor, Hannah-Jones has spent years studying and shaping compelling—and at times […]

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“Going to Fallujah Was the Most Horrific Experience of Our Lives”

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It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. There were no weapons of mass destruction. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with young men and women who bought the like, […]

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