Jordan Zakarin
Jordan Zakarin is a writer and reporter based in New York City. He works as a producer for the media nonprofit More Perfect Union and publishes the Progress Report newsletter.
Rural Texas could lose dozens of hospitals under Republican budget bill
| June 25, 2025
Already struggling rural hospitals in Texas could be forced to close due to healthcare spending cuts under a Republican-backed bill in Congress.
Trump and the MAGA movement have spent years preparing to contest the 2024 election results
| November 4, 2024
Donald Trump’s plan to challenge a 2024 election loss involves relying on the far-right justices on the Supreme Court all the way down to MAGA sheriffs and local election officials, with a helping hand from Republicans in Congress, state lawmakers, and a firehose of lies and conspiracies being spread on social media.
Op-Ed: How Trump exploited a willing media to convince Americans that nothing matters
| October 25, 2024
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.
How Project 2025 would poison millions of Americans
| September 11, 2024
In the far-right plan for a second Trump term, Americans’ right to eat healthy food, drink clean water, and breathe clean air would come under attack.
Opinion: Republicans want to repeal the modern family
| August 14, 2024
From Project 2025 and JD Vance all the way down to state lawmakers, a growing number of far-right Republicans are waging war on modern families. Whether it’s attacking child care programs, encouraging women to stay in abusive marriages, or making it harder for same-sex couples to adopt, the modern right is fighting to repeal the modern family.