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Activists Have a Plan to Increase Abortion Access: Let Nurses Perform Them

Maine lawmakers are moving forward with a bill to repeal restrictions on who provides abortions.

Politics
- Elizabeth Warren Unveils Plan to End DOJ Policy Prohibiting Indictment of Sitting Presidents
  Inae Oh
- International Markets Plummet as Trump Announces Mexico Tariff Threat
  Inae Oh
Environment
- A Photographer Spent a Decade Documenting the Tobacco Industry’s Darkest Corners. The Result Is Both Stunning and Disturbing.
  Photos by Rocco Rorandelli; Text by Mark Murrmann
- Has Climate Change Made Tornadoes Worse? It’s Not So Simple.
  Chris D’Angelo
Media
- Vérité’s Back. Her New Single Is the Perfect Chance to Get Reacquainted.
  Sam Van Pykeren
- A Mail Carrier Retired After Nearly 35 Years of Service. His Neighborhood Surprised Him in the Best Way.
  David Beard
Food
- An Easy Sauce to Make Grilled Vegetables Sing
  Tom Philpott
- DowDupont Lavishes Campaign Cash On Politicians Who Voted Against a Ban on its Blockbuster Pesticide
  Tom Philpott
Crime & Justice
- New Hampshire Lawmakers Just Overrode the Republican Governor’s Veto and Abolished the Death Penalty
  Nathalie Baptiste
- A Troubled Ex-Soldier Gunned Down His Own Caregivers. Their Town Remains Devoted to Helping Vets.
  Olivia Exstrum
Immigration
- Crowdsourced Border Wall Hits a New Obstacle
  Daniel Costa-Roberts
- Trump Gets Rid of His Most Effective Immigration Enforcer
  Noah Lanard

The Russian Connection

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Trump Admits Russia Helped Him “Get Elected”

Inae Oh
Carolyn Kaster/AP

Mueller Reminds the Nation That Trump Betrayed the USA

David Corn

Featured Investigations

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The Trump Official Who Failed to Reunify Dozens of Separated Children Is Getting a New Role

Hannah Levintova
Bryan Anselm/Redux for Mother Jones

Inside a Disturbing New Phase of the Opioid Epidemic

Julia Lurie

Podcasts

What Trump Could Learn From the Only State Legislator Who Actually Lives on the Mexico Border
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Bill Barr Is Appalled
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Friday Cat Blogging – 1 June 2019
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Photography

Rocco Rorandelli

A Photographer Spent a Decade Documenting the Tobacco Industry’s Darkest Corners. The Result Is Both Stunning and Disturbing.

“I want to provide a way for people to…realize how smoking is not just detrimental to the final user.”

Photos by Rocco Rorandelli; Text by Mark Murrmann