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 and agriculture. We reach millions of people each month via our website, social media presence, videos, podcasts, email newsletters, and print and digital magazine.

Contributions

Death of a Whistleblower • Will the Supreme Court make journalism a crime?

A Pennsylvania Prophet • Meet the Christian nationalists who want to assert dominion—starting with the Keystone State.

Medical Restraints • How healthcare companies use debt to trap nurses on the job

Vapor Trail • After a cannabis product turned up at my kid’s school, I rode into the Wild West of unregulated pot.

“Absolutely Do Not Send Them There” • Foster kids have few advocates and little agency. That made them the perfect cash cow for the country’s biggest psychiatric hospital chain.

“They Would Throw Me Into a Cage and Treat Me Like an Animal” • What Alaska foster kids were up against inside UHS facilities

To Tell the Truth • A movement to change the child welfare system asks caseworkers to speak up.

“I’m Not Turning the Other Cheek Anymore” • Radicals took over the Michigan GOP. Now they can't stop losing.

To Match a Predator • Dating apps promise to hook you up with romance. But they can delivery con men, rapists, and murderers.

Wake-up Call • Connecticut ended fees for prison phone calls. Will the rest of the country follow suit?

Freedom Readers • Authors of banned books—like me—are battling right-wing censorship daily. But we can’t do it alone.

Anarcho-Tyranny • How the right dresses up white grievance as political theory

Rich Doc, Poor Doc • Why do the most important kinds of doctors earn the least money?

Let Them Eat Kelp • Is seaweed farming the wave of the future?