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Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
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...
Are These Black Leaders on the Cusp of a New National Movement?
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...
The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South
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...
Ammon Bundy Is Running to Be Idaho’s Next Governor
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...
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID
As the Delta variant upended hope of returning to normal this summer, Mother Jones reporter Edwin Rios published a deeply reported story on...
The Afghan Refugee Crisis Has Only Just Begun
Towards the end of 2020, Mother Jones’s editorial director Ian Gordon wrote a deeply reported story about how then-President Donald Trump to...
The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema
Every time you read the news lately, there she is: in conversations about bipartisanship, the infrastructure deal, the filibuster, even the...
CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big Lie
Jake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politi...
Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul
Sergey Grishin is a well-connected, billionaire mogul. Last August, he made headlines when he sold his lavish estate to Prince Harry and Meg...
Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Culture Wars
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...
Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of Doonesbury
For five decades, Garry Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important—and entertaining—comic strips in American history: Doones...
Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who has spent the last two decades pounding out bestselling accounts of American presiden...
A Special Summer Announcement from the Podcast Team
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 Insurrection Was a Giant Recruitment Exercise for Extremists
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...
Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold
As we approach the five-month anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party has made one thing clear: They want to forget...
Leaked Video: How a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections
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...
“We’re Torn Apart”: Inside India’s Worsening COVID Nightmare
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...
“Queen Sugar” Author Natalie Baszile: Black Farmers Can Help Save the Planet
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...
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land
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...