Skip to main content

Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Trump’s Lies Have Grown Far More Frequent—and More Dangerous

The president is accelerating a dark phenomenon called “truth decay.”

Endangered Republican Falsely Claims He Hasn’t Taken NRA Money Recently
Kara Voght
Trump Says He “Feels So Terribly” for Kavanaugh
Inae Oh
New Documents Undercut Commerce Secretary’s Claims About Origins of Census Citizenship Question
Ari Berman
Kavanaugh Backer Says Sexual Assault Allegation Could Have Been Just “Rough Horseplay”
Inae Oh

More Top Stories

Featured

Education Images/Getty

The Senate Just Passed a Sweeping Opioid Bill. It’s Still Not Nearly Enough.

Critics consider it a Band-Aid for a crisis that killed some 72,000 Americans last year.

The Russian Connection

Dana Verkouteren/AP
Paul Manafort Will Give Robert Mueller “Complete Cooperation,” His Attorney Says

Dan Friedman
Alex Brandon/AP
Manafort Pleads Guilty

David Corn

Featured Investigations

Brian Stauffer
The Militant Wing of the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Back—And It’s Never Been Closer to Victory

Nina Liss-Schultz
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Getty
Trump’s “Enemy of the People” Rhetoric Is Endangering Journalists’ Lives

Mark Follman

Podcasts

Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
September/October 2018 Issue

The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
September 7, 2018

Kevin Drum

For the Middle Class, Wages Are Pretty Much the Whole Story
11 hours ago
Rich People Can No Longer Hide Their Political Contributions
11 hours ago
California Kindergarteners Need to Pick Up the Pace
12 hours ago
Lunchtime Photo
16 hours ago
Republicans Have a Big Dilemma This Year
18 hours ago

Photography

Bruce Jackson

Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm

“Just about everyone carrying a gun was a convict.”

Photographs by Bruce Jackson