Mother Jones

American Gulag: The brutal rollout of Trump's police state

Contributors

His Kingdom, Our Power • How media companies can stare down bullies

Soft Secession • Redistricting is a start, but California must lead an economic uprising.

Secret Service • How unnamed federal workers are defending the work of government, one meme at a time

Prison Break • A Colorado town divides over a potential ICE contract.

God’s Blank Check • How Christian Zionists became Israel’s most powerful American ally and reshaped Mideast policy

Lobbying for Annexation • How Yossi Dagan is building support for Israeli extremists in Washington

DOGE and Taxes • The IRS is the biggest employer in the MAGA town of Ogden, Utah. What happens when Elon & Co. start slashing?

American Gulag • Inside the rise of Trump’s immigration police state

Force Multiplier • How the GOP bankrolled ICE to unleash an army of masked agents on America

Minority Report • ICE is arresting more people, in more places, and with more problematic tech than ever before.

Camp Fear • Florida’s troubled tent city has inspired copycats across the country.

Random House • A tiny firm scored a $1.3 billion deal—and became symbolic of the feds’ opaque detention push.

Windfall • Donald Trump is cracking down on clean power. Eric Trump is turning it into bitcoins.

Road Map • Texas Rep. Greg Casar has a plan for a progressive comeback. Step one: Survive the present.

Identity Theft • Online platforms are transforming the marketplace for Native artists. But will counterfeits pose an existential threat to their work?

Able-Bodied • The deceptive phrase behind Trump’s Medicaid purge

Culture Wars • Did MAGA conspiracy theories doom the lab-grown burger?

TikTok Theology • Biblical scholar Dan McClellan fights the weaponization of the Word.