Fish, Toads, and John Eastman: Inside the Conservative Project to Undo Federal Environmental Laws
Among the most consequential decisions in the hands of the Supreme Court this term is a pair of lawsuits involving herring fishermen. On the surface, the nearly identical cases are simple disputes about fishing regulations. But they also have the potential to completely rejigger how federal agencies mediate everything from food and agriculture to taxes…
America’s Top 100 Donors Heavily Favor Trump and the Republicans
Trump basks in the love of his supporters at a rally in Phoenix on June 6.Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump may have lost in the Manhattan court where a jury recently convicted him of 34 felonies, but…
Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Its GOP Donations.
Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) enters a door at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.Graeme Sloan / APFight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the House, representing a small district in West…
Conservative Groups Are Outraising Democrats on the State Level—By a Lot
Mother Jones; Glen Carrie/Unsplash; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.State legislative bodies have always played a leading role in determining outcomes for fundamental but humdrum issues like state budgets, insurance regulations, road safety laws, and civil services. But the last few years have…
Kyrsten Sinema Didn’t Fail, She Could Only Be Failed
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After switching her party affiliation from Democratic to independent in 2022, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema didn’t really act like someone who was planning on sticking around Washington for the long haul. Her fundraising stagnated and her…
It’s Time the Word “Oligarch” Lost Its Russian Veneer
Mother Jones; Getty; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Back in 2011, the New Yorker published a Charles Barsotti cartoon that I, as a scholar of wealth power in liberal democracies, found brilliant: A rotund executive in a business suit is saying to his C-suite…