In this issue

"The Russian Connection" is Mother Jones' definitive guide to the hack-and-leak scandal that threatens the integrity of US democracy. Read David Corn on how Trump aided and abetted Putin, plus dossiers on the power players, curious timelines, and expert perspectives on the ongoing controversy.
The issue also includes, "State of Resistance" with left-coast legislators, media mavericks, and Democratic developers driving the insurrection.

Moscow On The Potomac

It’s about much, much more than Russia.

4 mins

Arrested Development

Under Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department is backing away from investigating crooked police— and not just in big cities.

4 mins

It Happens Here

I underwent genital mutilation as a child in the United States. Will exposure stop the practice—or drive it further underground?

6 mins

Blue Republic

Kevin de León’s California dream

4 mins

Banned Together

THERE WERE SIGNS OF LIFE earlier, fits of obstruction, but the moment when the Democratic Party officially awoke from its stupor and caught up to the reality of President Donald Trump came in the last weekend of January, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and a half-dozen places like it.

6 mins

Guerrilla Gopros

Unicorn Riot’s underground video insurrection.

6 mins

Fables Of The Reconstruction

America’s post-Civil War experiment in racial equity didn’t simply end on its own—it was violently overthrown.

8 mins

School Of Rock

Newbery medalist Kwame Alexander on music, race, and the power of poetry.

4 mins

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