Tim Murphy

New York

National Politics Reporter at Mother Jones

national correspondent @motherjones. [email protected]

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State Department cables reveal the harrowing consequences of Elon Musk’s USAID demolition

3 days ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were stymied by a terminally broken bureaucracy.
Ask the Expert: 'Make Sure Your Customers Come First ...'

1 week ago | kates-boylston.com | Tim Murphy

Lori Eanes, president of C&L Containers Inc. of Portsmouth, Virginia, was elected 2025-26 Casket & Funeral Supply Association of America president during the association’s recent annual conference and tradeshow in Cleveland.
10 ways to enrich the Trumps and the MAGA movement

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Russ Choma |Dan Friedman |Tim Murphy

Eight years ago, if you wanted to line the first family’s pockets, your choices—while ethically unprecedented—were limited. There was only so much you could spend on hotel rooms or Mar-a-Lago fundraisers. Fortunately for foreign governments, megacorporations, and anyone else with an agenda, the Trumps have diversified.
Why Maxwell Frost Wants Democrats to “Get Caught Fighting”

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

On a sunny afternoon in early February, two dozen Democratic representatives, clutching smartphones and talking points, converged on the Treasury Department’s public entrance in downtown Washington, DC. For weeks, a strike force from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, loosely vetted and barely old enough to vote, had swarmed federal buildings with a mandate to dismantle the government’s core institutions and bend what was left to their whims.
What Donald Trump has destroyed in his first 100 days won’t be easy to rebuild

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

What will you remember about Donald Trump’s second first 100 days? Probably the cruelty and arrogance of the people in charge, and the fecklessness of so many institutions that were supposed to fight back. Maybe the image of the world’s richest men, and some of their wives, sitting obediently in front of the president’s cabinet on Inauguration Day.
How a small African nation scrambled to appease Trump on tariffs

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development hit the nation of about 2.3 million people hard, by cutting millions of dollars of funding for public health and other programs.
You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere.

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street in Manhattan on Saturday seemed to capture the mood of this weekend’s “Hands Off” protests against President Donald Trump: “Where do I start?”You could meet a dozen people and hear at least a dozen different existential threats. Hands off Social Security. Hands off public health grants. Hands off student visas. Hands off women. Hands off trans people.
Elon Musk can’t take the heat

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy. In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous tweets, and possibly even in his sleep, Musk has argued that “empathy” is a “suicidal” trait that is a driving force behind civilizational extinction.
Where is the data to justify DOGE cuts?

2 months ago | thegazette.com | Tim Murphy

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. What methodology did the DOGE “boys” use to cut personnel out of the various Federal agencies? Please pass that “methodology” on to the public. If they can’t tell you what methodology they used, that answer is unacceptable. Our elected officials should demand the method and data for each layoff.
Bernie Sanders has been warning about oligarchy for years. People are finally listening.

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Tim Murphy

As he waited in the shadow of a parking garage in Tempe, Arizona, to hear Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak last Thursday evening, John Ward, a longtime Democrat from the deep-red retirement community of Sun City West, told me he “probably” hadn’t voted for the Vermont senator in the past, but that it felt like Sanders had become a party leader by default. “I mean, Kamala’s not talking. Barack’s not talking. Biden’s not talking,” he said.

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19 Apr 24

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