How a Former Transcendental Meditation Devotee Ended Up Funding America’s Wildest Right-Wing Spy Op
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nate Martin always thought there was something a little off about the new couple in town. Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca had shown up in Wyoming in 2019 with thin resumes and few references and quickly…
How Private Equity Looted America
Over the past four decades, private equity has become a powerful, and malignant, force in our daily lives. In our May/June 2022 issue, Mother Jones investigates the vulture capitalists chewing up and spitting out American businesses, the politicians enabling them, and the everyday people fighting back. The Smash-and-Grab Economy Private equity billionaires are looting the…
Exclusive: Leaked Messages Reveal the Origins of the Most Vile Hunter Biden Smear
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Late in the 2020 presidential campaign, trailing in the polls, Donald Trump and his allies worked to make a campaign issue out of a trove of files on a laptop that his opponent’s son, Hunter Biden,…
Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson
Mother Jones; Tucker Carlson Tonight/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a…
“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses”
A building in Hoyo de Puerco in August. The encampment was recently demolished.Pedro Farias-Nardi Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On a November day in a remote corner of the Dominican Republic, a line of trucks rolled across a vast sugarcane plantation and…
A Disturbing Gun Case Further Reveals the Peril of January 6
Capitol Police officers detain protesters outside the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, the Justice Department unsealed the latest case involving gun charges against an alleged participant in…