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Each episode will go deep on a big story you’ll definitely want to hear more about. We’ll share with you our best investigations (think private prisons, electoral skullduggery, Dark Money, a...

Things have been a bit quiet around these parts lately, huh? After a few months bringing you some of our best feature investigations read al...

We bet you’ve heard one phrase more and more this year than ever before: Critical Race Theory. It’s an obsession on Fox News, and it’s the t...

With everything going on these days—we’ll spare you the list of existential crises we’re currently living through—now seems like the perfect...

A week ago, thousands of people turned out for Women's March rallies across the country, galvanized by Texas' recent six-week abortion ban a...

Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has been following Ammon Bundy for years. He's the guy you'll remember who became a kind of folk he...

As the Delta variant upended hope of returning to normal this summer, Mother Jones reporter Edwin Rios published a deeply reported story on...

Towards the end of 2020, Mother Jones’s editorial director Ian Gordon wrote a deeply reported story about how then-President Donald Trump to...

Every time you read the news lately, there she is: in conversations about bipartisanship, the infrastructure deal, the filibuster, even the...

Jake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politi...

Sergey Grishin is a well-connected, billionaire mogul. Last August, he made headlines when he sold his lavish estate to Prince Harry and Meg...

Everywhere you turned in the aftermath of the 2020 election, someone was arguing a hard line on cultural issues as an explanation for the ou...

For five decades, Garry Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important—and entertaining—comic strips in American history: Doones...

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who has spent the last two decades pounding out bestselling accounts of American presiden...

After three years of weekly episodes—that’s 181 shows, if you’re counting—the Mother Jones Podcast team has decided to switch things up for...

The deadly insurrection at the US Capitol wasn’t the start of something, nor was it the end. What happened on January 6 had been planned for...

As we approach the five-month anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party has made one thing clear: They want to forget...

The right-wing dark money group Heritage Action for America claims to be the mastermind behind the recent fire hose of state-level voter sup...

A Mother Jones investigation has found that hundreds of visa workers are stuck in India with no way to get back to their families in the Uni...

Natalie Baszile knew she was onto something when she got the call from Oprah’s people. A novelist and food justice activist, Baszile had bee...

Agriculture was once a major source of wealth among the Black middle class in America. But over the course of a century, Black-owned farmlan...

Judas and the Black Messiah , a ground-breaking film about the life of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, has been hailed as one of the best...

Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin delivered its verdict: guilty on all three counts in the killing of George Fl...

Money. You’re probably thinking a lot about it these days. From a global pandemic that’s tanked the global economy, to President Joe Biden’s...

Lady Bird Johnson always fit the mold of a certain old-fashioned, stereotypical presidential wife: self-effacing, devoted to her generally u...

Earlier this week, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky went off-script during a news conference to issue an emotional warning : a fourth coro...

For many people who contract the coronavirus, shame is an underreported side-effect. Its symptoms are intense bewilderment about the cause o...

Cass Sunstein is a public intellectual and provocateur—and he has been pondering a timely issue: public lying. A longtime Harvard law profes...

Boiling water to drink and bathe. Collecting rainwater to flush toilets. Using bottled water distributed by the National Guard to take care...

Anything for Selena is more than a podcast about the iconic 1990s superstar Selena Quintanilla. It’s a nine-part series about belonging itse...

Stacey Abrams has a name for the series of bills that just passed the Georgia state legislature: “Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” Abrams joins...

Roxane Gay is one of the most prolific and versatile writers of our generation. She’s written a best-selling collection of essays ( Bad Femi...

A new coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has been approved. A new coronavirus variant in New York City has been identified—and is sp...

Overflowing ICE detention centers. Families separated at the border. A multi-billion-dollar border wall. Over the course of his four-year pr...

House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin delivered a speech during Trump’s impeachment trial last week in which he made a direct appeal to rea...

Tears on the Senate floor. Shocking footage of the insurrection. A bumbling and widely panned performance by Donald Trump’s legal team. The...

Stopping climate change is back on the White House agenda. President Biden came into with the most ambitious climate change plans of any adm...

Trump is gone. But assessing the wreckage wrought by his lies has only just begun. Emerging, battered, from a year advising the former presi...

Today, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. Two weeks after an armed mob stormed the Capitol, the new presi...

Today, President Donald Trump became the first president in US history to be impeached twice. A majority of the US House of Representatives—...

The January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of extremist Trump supporters was shocking and scary—but not surprising. Incendiary rhetoric...

On Wednesday, a mob of Trump supporters surged towards the US Capitol as the Senate was debating certification of Joe Biden’s election win....

NOTE: This episode was recorded just before violence erupted on Capitol Hill when pro-Trump extremists, inflamed by the president, rampaged...

Wow. What a start to the year. For those of you hoping high-stakes political drama might be confined to the 2020 presidential election, thin...

A disease, global in reach but intimate in its cruelty. A nation plunged into economic ruin. A president raging and incompetent. Society's u...

Joe Biden’s biographer joins the Mother Jones Podcast to tell us about the man behind the public figure. Over his decades in public life, we...

On this week's Mother Jones Podcast , we take you along for the ride as Democrats barnstorm Georgia in the last few weeks before the pivotal...

You might be breathing a deep sigh of relief that the 2020 elections are finally over. But spare a thought for our friends in Georgia. Voter...

Young people turned out in record numbers for the 2020 presidential election, and they overwhelmingly backed Joe Biden . Now, the hashtag #C...

How are your Thanksgiving plans different this year? You may have heeded the urgent advice to put travel plans on ice, but you’re still tryi...

The United States is confronting its worst surge in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. Governors are rushing new lockdowns i...