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

A "Brutal, Fearful Time" for Journalism • Ad dollars are drying up—and so are newsrooms.

Outgunned • Kevin McCarthy holds the gavel. Insurrectionists will run the House.

The Prison Professor • Leo Hylton is on a mission to teach away incarceration, one Zoom at a time.

The Closer • Can red-state voters be persuaded to protect abortion? This organizer has done it twice.

Stream of Noxiousness • How Nick Fuentes’ white nationalist broadcasts summoned a new generation of GOP hate

Never Been Kissed • Meet the incel Fuentes fans who love him for hating women.

The Website from Hell • The trolls who hounded people to kill themselves created the online culture we have today.

Forever Home • A Native woman fought for years to gain custody of her granddaughter. Now the case is before the Supreme Court and could have consequences far beyond child welfare.

Case Workers • A group of think tanks and foundations are angling to topple the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Soul Searching

The Abortion Pill's Secret Money Men • The untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex—and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs

Lights, Camera, Propaganda • How right-wing provocateurs like Candace Owens are weaponizing documentary filmmaking

Austerity • How a conservative rationale for brutal budget cuts became an explanation of its consequences

Doctor's Orders • Would patients be safer if we let medical residents rest?

A Whale of a Problem • Should sustainable seafood assessments care about human livelihoods?