Time
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AUTHORITARIANS HISTORICALLY COME FOR THE COMICS first.
5 min |
October 27, 2025
Time
HISTORY UNENDED
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. The Cold War had ended, and it looked like liberal democracy had triumphed.
3 min |
October 27, 2025
Mother Jones
SECRET SERVICE
How unnamed federal workers are defending the work of government, one meme at a time
6 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
SOFT SECESSION
Redistricting is a start, but California must lead an economic uprising.
8 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
Minority Report
ICE is arresting more people, in more places, and with more problematic tech than ever before.
3 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
Random House
A tiny firm scored a $1.3 billion deal—and became symbolic of the feds' opaque detention push.
3 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
ROAD MAP
Texas Rep. Greg Casar has a plan for a progressive comeback. Step one: Survive the present.
10+ min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
PRISON BREAK
A Colorado town divides over a potential ICE contract.
6 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
DOGE and Taxes The IRS is the biggest employer in the MAGA town of Ogden, Utah.What happens when Elon & Co. start slashing?
If you've ever lived west of the Mississippi, you've probably mailed a tax return to the IRS service center in Ogden, Utah.
10+ min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
TIKTOK THEOLOGY
Biblical scholar Dan McClellan fights the weaponization of the Word.
3 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
Lobbying for Annexation
How Yossi Dagan is building support for Israeli extremists in Washington
6 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
God's Blank Check
How Christian Zionists became Israel's most powerful American ally and reshaped Mideast policy
10+ min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
MIXED MEDIA
Online platforms are transforming the marketplace for Native artists. But will counterfeits pose an existential threat to their work?
8 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
CULTURE WARS
Did MAGA conspiracy theories doom the lab-grown burger?
3 min |
November/December 2025
Mother Jones
ABLE-BODIED
The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
4 min |
November/December 2025
The Atlantic
THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
\"A magazine, when properly conducted, is the nursery of genius; and by constantly accumulating new matter, becomes a kind of market for wit and utility.\"
4 min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
THE MORAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It's worth preserving.
5 min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
WHOSE INDEPENDENCE?
The question of what Jefferson meant by \"all men\" has defined American law and politics for too long.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
THE MYTH OF MAD KING GEORGE
He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
THE NIGHTMARE OF DESPOTISM
Hamilton feared the mob. Jefferson warned against unchecked elites. But both thought that the republic could fall.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
THE BLACK LOYALISTS
Thousands of African Americans fought for the British-then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
NO ONE GAVE A SPEECH LIKE PATRICK HENRY
How he roused a nation to war
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
WHY CONCORD?
The geological origins of the American Revolution
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
How Do You Film the Revolution?
What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
DEAR SON
How the revolution tore apart the Franklin family
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
SECRETS OF A RADICAL DUKE
How a lost copy of the Declaration unlocked a historical mystery
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
WHAT THE FOUNDERS WOULD SAY NO W
They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
THE 27TH GRIEVANCE
How Native nations shaped the Revolution
9 min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
THE MANY LIVES OF ELIZA SCHUYLER
She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.
10+ min |
November 2025
The Atlantic
AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS NAP
How “Rip Van Winkle” became our founding folktale
10+ min |