Politics Features

The man who essentially ended the federal right to abortion thinks that he can now run for president in 2024 as a “moderate” on the issue. In recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, Donald Trump has privately remarked that several anti-abortion leaders — people who spent …

WASHINGTON — As Apple and WhatsApp have built themselves into multibillion-dollar behemoths, they’ve done it while preaching the importance of privacy, especially when it comes to secure messaging. But in a previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone, the bureau claims that it’s particularly easy to harvest data from …

When a notorious militia group’s private records suddenly spill into public view, the flood of information can be challenging to interpret. The Oath Keepers are an anti-government organization, steeped in conspiracy theories, that recruits from the military and law enforcement. Its members were a prominent part of the Jan. 6 …

To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert. She is one of the pioneers in climate journalism, known for her intrepid, in-the-field research (“We strapped on our snowshoes, put on helmets and headlamps, and filed down into the mine,” she writes of a trip …

Welcome to “The Next Wave,” a new Rolling Stone video series in which we interview the politicians and activists shaping the future of America. Our first guest is Jaime Harrison, the 44-year-old former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party now vying to end Lindsey Graham‘s career in the Senate. …

The workers at General Electric Aviation’s facility in Lynn, Massachusetts make jet engines and helicopter parts, most notably the massive T408 engine that powers the U.S. Marine Corps “King Stallion” heavy-lift helicopter. They are good at what they do, but in the past few decades the company has steadily moved …

On March 18th, as the reality of the coronavirus crisis was becoming painfully apparent to Americans, the Idaho Legislature was turning its attention to health care concerns of another kind: making sure that women were denied access to abortion at some nebulous future date. Across the country, state legislatures had …

“I’m a private person,” Hillary Clinton says in Hillary, the new four-part documentary series about her life that premieres Friday on Hulu. Director Nanette Burstein wanted to see if she could get her to open up. In January of 2018, Clinton’s camp came to Burnstein with 2,000 hours of a …

Frank O. Bowman wrote the book on impeaching the 45th president. Published in July, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump seeks to ground the talk about removing the president from office in centuries of history and practice. A law professor who teaches at …

This story was originally published by ProPublica. and was co-published with Texas Monthly. On the evening of May 30th, Brad Parscale, the campaign manager of Donald J. Trump for President Inc., gave a speech to a gathering of the faithful. Parscale is a striking figure: 6-foot-8, with a trademark Viking …