I just turned 26, which means I was unceremoniously booted off my parent’s health insurance and had to fend for myself in the wild west of American healthcare. For a freelancer like me, this meant I had to buy healthcare on the marketplace. First, I had to figure out what that even is. Let’s go […]
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I have been on a multimonth mission to figure out why health care costs are going up. You can read all about it here. As part of that process, I spoke to people across the United States to hear about their experiences with health insurance. And let me tell you, it’s dire. Take a listen. […]
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What Seven Americans Think of Rising Health Care Costs Read Post »
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt. The law, headed by Assemblymember Linda B. […]
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New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt Read Post »
Former Vice President Mike Pence poached over a dozen senior officials from the Heritage Foundation to join his own conservative think tank in the latest sign that all is not well in right-wing politics. The Heritage Foundation is arguably the most prominent conservative think tank in America. Pence, meanwhile, started his competing think tank, Advancing […]
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Mike Pence Poaches Heritage Foundation Staff After Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Blowup Read Post »
CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, a last-minute move that has since been condemned as political. The decision was announced just three hours before the story was expected to air on Sunday. […]
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CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical of Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans Read Post »
The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Walk around Washington, DC, and you might spot murals painted in Sean Dunn’s honor, along with […]
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Hero of 2025: Principled Grand Juries Read Post »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip from a steaming cup of hot chocolate, humming the jaunty songs you can’t seem to get out of your head the […]
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Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas Read Post »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip from a steaming cup of hot chocolate, humming the jaunty songs you can’t seem to get out of your head the […]
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Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas Read Post »
The Israeli government approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law. The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on X that this increases the total number of new settlements to 69 in the past three years—a new record. “On the ground, we are […]
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Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank Read Post »
The United States stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Sunday, just a day after the Coast Guard boarded another oil vessel, according to a report from Bloomberg. The operation, which is not approved by Congress, is part of President Trump’s “blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, […]
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Trump Has Intercepted Two Oil Tankers Off Venezuela This Weekend Read Post »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shelton Tucker is part of a novel plan to deal with the waters that are increasingly encroaching on his neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia. Situated at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and afflicted by one of the […]
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A Flood-Prone City Gets Creative in Its Effort to Tame the Water Gods Read Post »
On Friday, the Trump-controlled Justice Department was mandated by a nearly unanimous act of Congress to release all government files related to Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes. “What are they protecting?” But the government has made just a portion of its holdings publically available, and among the 13,000 documents released, some are extensively or virtually […]
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Trump’s Epstein Coverup Is Just Getting Started Read Post »
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