Trump Gloats About “Making a Fortune” While Americans Suffer As his war in Iran wreaks havoc, Trump is fixated on personal glory and enrichment. Donald Trump is annoyed that he can’t celebrate the massive profits oil...
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Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of...
{'text': 'Democrats asked a court to block a reported settlement between the IRS and President Donald Trump over a leak of his tax information during his first term, saying it lacks the bare minimum required to file a...
{'text': 'For years, Missouri has been one of the country’s most aggressive testing grounds for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. It’s a Republican-controlled state where lawmakers have repeatedly introduced bills targeting...
{'text': '2 min read'} {'text': 'Because it is such an open sewer of an arrangement, this is the most soul-sucking, despicable, and scandalous transaction ever conducted by a head of state not named Borgia. It dwarfs...
{'text': 'Former vice president Kamala Harris has blasted the Supreme Court’s decision to allow states to dismantle Black-majority congressional districts, saying the move allowed Republicans to “cheat” ahead of midterm...
{'text': 'President Donald Trump declared he was hitting pause on a planned military attack against Iran on Monday, but his Truth Social post was also the first time the operation was revealed.'} {'text': 'Fresh off his...
On the morning of Monday, March 23, President Trump pulled his first “TACO” of the Iran war. After four weeks of fighting, with oil prices already up 55%, Trump had given Iran an ultimatum on Friday: make a deal within...
{'text': "Ninety-three House Democrats on Monday launched a bid to block President Donald Trump's $1.77 billion taxpayer-funded settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, through which the president could reward...
Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 billion fund to pay...
{'text': 'President Donald Trump speaks to the media aboard Air Force One on May 15, 2026 as he returns to the United States from China. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)'} {'text': 'THIS IS THE TRUMP ERA, which means...
Being rich has never done Donald Trump any harm with his base. If anything, it’s done the opposite. Trump doesn’t look elitist, snooty or out of touch to the Maga crowd. Instead, he’s aspirational: they see an...
{'text': 'When I was in high school, a kid named Matthew Shepard was murdered, beaten,and left tied to a fence in Wyoming because he was gay. I grew up in a culture that did not feel very far away from that world at...
{'text': 'Donald Trump made a flurry of trades on a tech company just as his administration announced a major agreement with the same firm, according to the president’s own financial declarations.'} {'text': 'The...
{'text': 'Trump’s right hand last September. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)'} {'text': 'PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RARELY SEEN IN PUBLIC these days without a thick layer of nude-colored makeup...
{'text': 'Kyle Rittenhouse is drawing friendly fire following his endorsement of Republican congressman Thomas Massie, a bitter foe of President Donald Trump’s.'} {'text': 'Rittenhouse was 17 when he shot three...
{'text': 'Donald Trump’s Wall Street side hustle is starting to look like a full-time job.'} {'text': 'During the first three months of 2026, the billionaire president pocketed tens of millions of dollars through 3,700...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of the Senate’s biggest Iran war hawks, is putting his full chest and his job behind the U. S.-Israeli war, saying the conflict is “worth losing my job” over. “If I had to give up my job...
The Hypocrisy of Trump’s 9-Hour Prayer Festival The claim that the founders meant America to be a Christian nation isn’t just bad history—it’s a declaration of war by the religious right. The day after President Donald...