Excessive Wealth Is a “Disorder” That Some 1 Percenters Want to Cure
Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Joe. Friggin. Manchin. The odds weren’t good for Congress to make the mega-wealthy pay more taxes, but the Democratic senator from West Virginia killed off any chance of it on Thursday, declaring that he wouldn’t…
Senators Just Did the Rich Another Favor
Mother Jones; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved a retirement bill called the Enhancing American Retirement Now Act (EARN). That’s the Senate version of a package nicknamed SECURE 2.0, which sailed through the…
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…
Another Billionaire Tax Bites the Dust
Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia.Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Another day, another foiled billionaire tax. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin wasted little time signaling his lack of support for Joe Biden’s new proposal to tax the richest of…
How Congress Made Sure the Rich Retire in Luxury—at Taxpayer Expense
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Diane Weiss and Kristen Svihlik live 1,700 miles and a generation apart. Weiss, 60, is twice divorced with a grown daughter, and resides by herself in a one-bedroom apartment in Mesa, Arizona. Svihlik is 38 and lives…
This May Be the Worst GOP Fundraising Letter Ever
Mother Jones illustration; Tasos Katopodis/AP; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.I’m on a lot of Republican and conservative email lists. Call it research. So every day, I receive fundraising solicitations from Republican candidates, right-wing advocacy groups, and, of course, Donald Trump.…