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.

Contributors

Our Ballots, Our Choice • What happened to the right to choose our government?

Debtors’ Vision • How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief

Bananas Republican • How Alfie Oakes made himself a MAGA magnate

Sins of Admission • Meet the Muslim journalist who has mobilized Asian American parents in the war on public schools.

The Right’s Way • Roe is just the beginning

The Anti-Abortion Architect • The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.

Miscarriage of Justice • If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?

God’s Plan • Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.

Torn Apart • I’ve studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.

The Mother Trap • Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?

Zen and the Art of Political Espionage • How did a Gore-Tex heir and onetime Transcendental Meditation devotee end up bankrolling America’s strangest right-wing spy op?

Girlhood, Interrupted • Teenage novelist Leila Mottley contemplates a police sex trafficking scandal and its young survivor.

New Fiction to Help us Reenvision Reality • Several of 2022’s most anticipated novels offer unique perspectives on society's thorniest issues, from racism to workplace harassment.

Echo Chamber • Complaining about bubbles isn’t about information—it’s about politics.

Grin and Bear It • Why haven’t we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?

With the Grain • A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger