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 Gift of Time • In print, in radio, in film—we go deep to bring you the truth.

The Fast and the Spurious • Ohio GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno built an empire selling cars—and stiffing workers.

White Man’s Burden • Who is behind the right’s assault on a Biden policy welcoming Native knowledge?

Church and Statehood • A new Puerto Rican political party puts faith before status.

40 Acres and a Lie • We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.

Paradise Stolen • Black families were cheated out of their land on Skidaway Island. Now it’s a wealthy white enclave.

What We Are Owed • Technology and genealogy have made the case for reparations specific—and undeniable.

The Conversion Therapist Will See You Now • The counselors once discredited for their “ex-gay” theories have rebranded. And now they’re coming after trans kids.

Saved • Finding self-love after Christian conversion therapy

“I Hope My Hindsight Will Be Others’ Foresight” • A decade after Elliot Rodger’s horrific massacre, his mother is on a quest to help threat assessment experts—and other parents—prevent the next tragedy.

Raging Bull • Donald Trump’s Pugilistic Spokesman Has Taken Campaigning to a Whole New Level of Low

Hall of Blame • More Greatest Hits From Trump’s “Enforcer”

The Good Wife • Trad wife influencers may seem harmless—until you consider them amid the erosion of women’s rights.

No Quarter • A queer Black journalist reflects on life and love and coming of age in a cruel world.

Genocide • The intertwined histories of Israel’s founding and the term “genocide” have lessons for today.

Data Blockers • Overturning Roe didn’t just bludgeon abortion access. It sabotaged science, too.

Growing Pains • Why are governors rejecting funds for kids’ summer meals?