Mother Jones

Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization with a bimonthly magazine that delivers bold and original reporting on the urgent issues of our day, from politics and climate change to education and the food we eat. We investigate stories that are in the public’s interest. From revelatory scoops to deep-dive investigations, Mother Jones journalism is award-winning storytelling that informs and inspires 8 million monthly readers.

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The Shame of Journalism • Twenty years ago, mainstream media failed us. Where is the reckoning?

Mainstreaming Militias • In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.

Who You Gonna Call? • After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.

Purdue’s Payouts • How drug money went to politicians and pill-pushers

Up Rooted • Forest have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.

Run, Forest, Run • Scientists have outlined three distinct ways they could move a population of trees—each riskier than the next.

Suck It Up • Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation—or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

“Healing Requires Truth” • A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.

Distant Learning • New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.

Sweet and Lowdown • The human suffering behind America’s sugar habit

Geography Class • Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”

Male Chauvinist Pig • What does it mean to call someone a “male chauvinist pig”?

The Right Medicine • When COVID treatments are politicized, science loses.

Field of Trees • The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt