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

The Long Fight of Barbara Ehrenreich • Remembering the champion of the working class, and my friend of 50 years

Trigger Man • How Republican leaders have embraced Donald Trump’s incitement to violence

The Next Big Steal • National elections in the US are administered by local and state officials. Here are a handful of candidates sympathetic to Donald Trump’s election fraud claims, who, if they win in November could help him or another Republican steal the 2024 race.

Capitol Express • Gov. Greg Abbott bused thousands of migrants from Texas to DC. Here’s what became of them.

The Longest War • Will Black WWII veterans finally get their due?

No Safety Nets Here • Red states forcing women to give birth are terrible at supporting those who do.

Power Ball • How oligarchs, private-equity, and petrostates took over soccer.

Influence Game • Following the money on Qatar’s soccer power play

Live. Laugh. Lay Waste. • Moms for Liberty is upending schools, radicalizing parents, and could decide the midterms.

Moms Against Libraries • The crusade to ban books has reached a fever pitch.

Florida’s War on Woke • Gov. Ron DeSants harnesses the power of the conservative parents.

Surveillance State • From abortion to schools, the GOP is turning everyday citizens into culture war snitches.

How to Save a Life • Harm reduction is demonized by conservative media and attacked by lawmakers. This is what it actually looks like.

Slim Pickings • Netflix’s reality show “Love is Blind” promised to ignore looks — but then platformed thin white people anyway.

Reality Bites • These docusoaps made attempts to diversify — but the efforts didn’t always pan out as planned.

Democratize • A concept rooted in politics and the public sphere has been squeezed into a new container: the individual consumer.

Free the Pill • The FDA is poised to approve the first over-the-counter birth control. What took so long?

Something New Under the Sun • The case for combining farming and solar energy