Mother Jones

Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education, climate change, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website, social-media presence, videos, podcasts, email newsletters, and print and digital magazine.

Contributions

Apocalypse News • Just like democracy, journalism is facing an end—and a beginning.

Gun for Hire • The operative who invented Swift Boating could put Trump on course for reelection.

Age Against the Machine • Young voters are powering Rep. Andy Kim’s challenge to Trenton’s powers that be.

Sludge Report • Can Maine lead the way to a future without forever chemicals?

The Democracy Bomb • The Founding Fathers lit the fuse on the crisis tearing American democracy apart.

Spoiler Alert • Third-party candidates never win national elections, but they can still have serious consequences.

Party Crashers • A high-stakes history of righteous outrage and electoral opportunism

Nader by the Numbers

Thumbs-Down • Can Americans upgrade the way we pick politicians?

Multiple Choices • Readers sound off on the perils and promise of third parties.

Become Ungovernable • The spectacular implosion of the Libertarian Party

Blood Money • How dialysis clinics are making a killing off deathly ill patients

Fighting Chance • Ruben Gallego’s battle aginst Kari Lake could decide the fate of the Senate—and democracy itself. No pressure.

Well Played • One man’s mission to make gaming a little less white

Abortionist • The label that turns health care workers into criminals

Chatbot Quacks • AI was supposed to fix online health misinformation. Instead, it’s making it worse.

Crime of the Crop • Will GMOs harm my kids? Your pediatrician’s response might not be grounded in science.