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Mother Jones; Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP; Getty In November, ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Sen. Rick Scott...
Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. Michael Nagle/Pool/Getty The...
Mother Jones; Lev Radin/Sipa USA/AP, Markus Schreiber/AP Out of the four criminal cases that Donald Trump faces, the one scheduled to begin on Monday...
Mother Jones; Laura Brett/Zuma; Paul Sancya/AP, Jose Luis Magana/AP On March 23, Steve and Tracy Slepcevic hosted a fundraiser for independent...
Donald Trump speaks at a political rally at Dayton International Airport in November 2022. Michael Conroy/AP Editor’s note: The below...
Members of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group that has engaged in political violence, raise a cross on January 6, 2021, at the Michigan State Capitol...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Donald Trump’s criminal cases. Joe Biden’s age. The wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Migrants at the border. Food...
Paul Manafort, center, arrives in court in New York in July 2019. Seth Wenig/AP From the Nothing Matters News Desk comes this report: Donald Trump is...
Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gestures to students before she speaks at Amherst College on October 3, 2019. Jessica Hill/AP On...
Former special counsel Robert K. Hur watches a video of President Joe Biden during the House Judiciary Committee hearing about his report on Biden's...
Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the...
Mother Jones illustration; Shawn Thew/EFE/ZUMA For over an hour on Thursday night, during the State of the Union address, President Joe Biden...
President Biden puts on sunglasses as he makes a joke about becoming "Dark Brandon" during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April...
Donald Trump speaks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 23. Allison Bailey/AP ...
Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP In June 2020, a businessman and fixer named Alexander Smirnov, who was also...
Donald Trump appears at a Manhattan criminal court on February 15, 2024, for a hearing in his porn-star/hush-money case. Brendan McDermid/AP ...
Mother Jones; Michael Brochstein/Zuma Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The...
zz/KGC-375/STAR MAX/IPx/Associated Press On Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, told Donald Trump to get lost. That is, it...
Mother Jones illustration; Adam Davis/EFE/ZUMA In early December, John Zogby, a prominent American pollster, appeared on Sky News Australia, as he...
Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time)...
Mother Jones illustration; RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Getty; Andrew Thomas/NurPhoto/AP You probably have noticed all the recent hubbub about Taylor...
Donald Trump and casino mogul Steve Wynn on July 12, 2005 in Las Vegas. Joe Cavaretta/AP After winning the Republican primary in New Hampshire on...
Samuel Corum/Getty Images The Biden administration says that it has being trying to prevent the ongoing war in Gaza from spreading to other parts of...
Donald Trump speaks to the media at a Washington hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, after a hearing before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Susan...
Sen. John Worth Kern and Mary Harris Jones, a.k.a. Mother Jones (shown here in military custody), teamed up in 1913 to form a Democratic...
Mother Jones illustration; J. Scott Applewhite/AP; Getty A new conspiracy theory rising on the right is being deployed to help Donald Trump. It...
Mother Jones; SMG/Zuma On the evening of January 6, 2021, Brad Parscale texted Donald Trump adviser Katrina Pierson about the insurrectionist...
Norman Lear poses for a portrait during the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. ...
Charlie Neibergall/AP When the super PAC supporting Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign released its first ad touting the former Republican South...
Scott Eisen/Getty Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a...
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, seen during a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in 2006, died at the age of 100 on November 29,...
Francis Chung/AP The bizarre saga of George Santos as a member of the US House of Representatives is heading toward its finale. One way or another....
Pastor John Hagee speaking at a Christians United for Israel conference Michael Brochstein/SIPA via AP As tens of thousands of Americans were heading...
A protester in Ohio in 2022. SOPA Images/Getty Once again, American voters in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision that...
Jose Luis Magana/AP On Wednesday night, uber-liar George Santos faced the ultimate penalty for a member of Congress: expulsion. Several of his fellow...
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel. J. Scott Applewhite/AP In his...
House Speaker Mike Johnson addressing a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on October 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. David Becker/AP Editor’s...
"The government has replaced the Creator," Mike Johnson said in a 2019 seminar appearance. "Government is becoming God.” He is pictured here...
Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the House, has a very dark view of America. He believes that the United States...
J. Scott Applewhite/AP During the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with then-President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and United...
zz/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx via AP There’s nothing like war to bring out the crazy in the crazy far-right. As the Israeli military pummeled Gaza and...
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 15, 2023. Momen Faiz/AP Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David...
Jacquelyn Martin/AP On April 15, 2009, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican, brought Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the leader of the House GOP...
CJ Gunther/EFE/Zuma When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a swanky fundraiser for his presidential campaign last month in the upscale Brentwood...
Donald Trump campaigning in North Charleston, South Carolina, on September 25, 2023 Artie Walker Jr./AP Editor’s note: The below article first...
Cornel West will appear at a forum on the war in Ukraine with Lee Camp and Claudia De La Cruz. Mother Jones illustration; Nancy Kaszerman/Zuma;...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters at the Capitol on September 14, 2023, about launching an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden....
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Rational 360, a high-powered Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and digital agency, promises to use...
A representative of Project 2025, a conservative operation preparing for a possible Trump presidency, was recruiting supporters at the Iowa State Fair...