Anna Merlan

Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In much of the world, Grok and its parent company both appear to be in serious trouble. After Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used to generate sexualized and violent images of women and children, the social media co... See more

A Gift Shop to Remember by Anna Merlan 1. A ticket, which will cost you $39.99 per adult. Upon payment, you will be handed an admissions card designed to look like a boarding pass for the real Titanic. On the reverse of this pass you will be assigned the ... See more

Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sometime this week in an undisclosed location, two powerful figures sat down for tense negotiations, hoping to end a cold war that had, in recent days, turned very hot. The talks were not a success, with one partic... See more

Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Not long ago, plagiarist-turned-MAGA-influencer Benny Johnson stood in a parking garage underneath Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem emerged; the two embraced, t... See more

LAST MARCH, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a woman they accused of drug trafficking and entering the country illegally. As she stood in a parking lot, they photographed her, weeping, eyes half-closed in anguish, her arms cuffed behind... See more