One industry in America pumps out toxic waste day and night, but suffers no penalty for the damage it causes. It operates at enormous public and private expense, sucking up hundreds of billions of ...

Kamar Samuels, the city schools chancellor, is now enmeshed in a personal scandal — and a far larger systemic one. Both were on display this week as his Department of Education minions tried the old ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) late Friday criticized what he called a “corrupt system” that produces extreme wealth at the top while many Americans lack access to health care. “There is something ...

Dan is a managing editor at Raw Story based in Colorado, producing and editing breaking political news. Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, and later as ...

“People tend to want to use the rules of advertising and marketing in their activism, and the truth of the matter is advertising, propaganda, misinformation is what caused this problem,” says McKay, ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate oath to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, during a ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in ceremony, Jan. 6, 2015, in the Old Senate Chamber on ...

Shortly after the 2024 election, I offered a framework for making sense of the coming chaos, dividing Trump’s transgressions among what I called the three horsemen of the Trump II apocalypse: ...

A new federal lawsuit is trying to stop next weekend's UFC Freedom 250 card on the South Lawn of the White House. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two Virginia residents by the Public Integrity Project ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With Donald Trump’s pardon of former Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer over the weekend, he ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the UFC fighters left their locker rooms Sunday night and headed out to the ...

Fidelity Investments plans to start letting workers buy pension-like income within a popular breed of its 401(k) investments. The nation’s second-largest target-date fund provider is betting that as ...

SpaceX’s years of courting the national-security establishment are paying off. The U.S. government is SpaceX’s largest single client, which the 24-year-old company identified as “Customer A” in ...