Why the Border Patrol Went MAGA
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For our September+October issue, we investigated the Border Patrol’s sharp growth, its troubling record on civil liberties, its culture of impunity, and its role in shaping the current political moment—one that echoes the anti-immigrant fever that led to the agency’s creation a…
The Future of the Border Is Even More Dystopian Than You Thought
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For our September+October issue, we investigated the Border Patrol’s sharp growth, its troubling record on civil liberties, its culture of impunity, and its role in shaping the current political moment—one that echoes the anti-immigrant fever that led to the agency’s creation a century…
“He’s an Agent. No One Will Believe Me Over Him.”
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How Trump’s “Mass Deportation” Plan Would Ruin America
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Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun
This story was produced in partnership with The Trace and CBS News and Stations. Candace Leslie was leaving church when she got the call she will never forget. “All I heard was his girlfriend yelling in the phone, and she was like, ‘Cameron! Cameron! … He won’t get up. He won’t get up!’ ” Someone…
The Far-Right Pushes a New Conspiracy Theory to Discredit Jack Smith
Mother Jones illustration; J. Scott Applewhite/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A new conspiracy theory rising on the right is being deployed to help Donald Trump. It claims that Jack Smith, the special counsel who is prosecuting Trump for his attempt to overturn…