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.

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Where Are the Heroes? • All around us, actually.

From Our Readers

The Plot Against Birthright Citizenship • It’s time to take the rhetoric about “anchor babies” seriously.

Power of the Purse • There’s never been an administration this rich. History says it won’t end well.

Will Congress Ever “Liberate” Methadone? • Drug user activists are teaming up with doctors and legislators to upend a degrading clinic system.

The Hit List • Trump wants to remake America. These are the people who will suffer.

Removing Immigrants • “If I get deported, it will be the end of me.”

Raiding Communities • “ICE officers were just trying to pick them off”

Attacking LGBTQ People • “She just needed to get out of Texas”

Quashing the Press • “A lot of the guardrails are down”

Crushing Student Protests • “I didn’t think it was this insane”

Silencing Whistleblowers • “We are back in the days of the Red Scare”

A Very Limited List of Trump’s Promises of Retribution

Undermining Science • “The collapsed ethics were profound”

Ending Reproductive Rights • “The worst can happen”

The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle • The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

Civil War • The legal industry’s monopoly on advice ensures only the rich can afford a lawyer. Now, an unlikely coalition is fighting to change that—and it might just succeed.

Prison Break • There are many programs trying to reduce recidivism. This one works.

My Unexpected Healing • I first came to San Quentin as a journalist. After my son’s suicide, I returned.

Poet of the People • aja monet is reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z to her shows.

Entitlements • Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE reboots austerity for the era of Big Tech.

Virtuous Cycle • The big money push to tell women to bring back “natural” birth control

Losing the Farm • How RFK Jr.’s healthy-foods movement swallowed up some of the Democratic base