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Mother Jones
Rule the School: Boards of Control
Our long history of letting white Americans veto racial progress in education
7 min |
March/April 2022
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The Long Shot
"What if we could make a vaccine for pandemic viruses—before they exist?"
3 min |
January/February 2022
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The Legal War Against Mother Jones
"Journalists shouldn’t hide behind a veil of false objectivity."
4 min |
January/February 2022
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Mixed Media Vanishing Point
More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?
9 min |
January/February 2022
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Had Badge, Will Travel
An ex-sheriff slings bogus constitutional lessons at cops—with your state’s seal of approval.
8 min |
January/February 2022
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Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot
The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks
3 min |
January/February 2022
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Double Standard Bearers - Supremacy and Sedition
There’s a reason the Capitol rioters have dodged the charge: race.
8 min |
January/February 2022
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The Purity Trap
These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted— and blamed for it.
10+ min |
January/February 2022
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The Big Quit
How workers got fed up and bosses got scared
7 min |
January/February 2022
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Drinking Problem: Well Wishes
How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians
6 min |
January/February 2022
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Better Call Ken
The Texas Attorney General provided a radical legal pretext to overturn the election. Now he’s using the same tactics to gut Roe v. Wade.
10+ min |
January/February 2022
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Sweet And Lowdown
The hidden suffering behind America’s sugar habit
10+ min |
November/December 2021
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Suck It Up
Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?
10+ min |
November/December 2021
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Mainstreaming Militias
In Virginia, right-wingers who face down anti-racist demonstrators with AR-15s have earned an official stamp of approval.
5 min |
November/December 2021
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The Right Medicine
When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.
4 min |
November/December 2021
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Up Rooted
Forests have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.
10+ min |
November/December 2021
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Healing Requires Truth
A modern civil rights project seeks to reexamine hundreds of Jim Crow–era murders, and help families move forward.
10+ min |
November/December 2021
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Geography Class
Photographer Matt Black’s epic work of “critical cartography”
5 min |
November/December 2021
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Distant Learning
New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.
10+ min |
November/December 2021
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Field of Trees
The case for bringing foliage back to the Corn Belt
3 min |
November/December 2021
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Who You Gonna Call?
After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.
8 min |
November/December 2021
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Two Years and Six Months in Border Purgatory
The Perlas did everything to play by the United States’ rules. Was that a huge mistake?
10+ min |
September/October 2021
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Mad As Hell
What’s fueling America’s political rage?
10+ min |
September/October 2021
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Econundrums: Tear Down This Paywall
The pandemic made science more accessible than ever. Let’s keep it that way.
4 min |
September/October 2021
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Food For Thought: Impossible Dream
Want people to eat less meat? Tasty soy patties probably won’t cut it.
3 min |
September/October 2021
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Ammon's Army
He built a platform that can summon 60,000 people for uprisings on demand. He’s running to become governor of Idaho. Inside Ammon Bundy’s crusade to liberate the West.
10+ min |
September/October 2021
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Double Dose: Gain Of Dysfunction
How an alliance of crunchies and conservatives could help bring on the next pandemic
7 min |
September/October 2021
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Still Fronting
How the George Floyd uprising was framed
6 min |
July/August 2021
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How money talks
MOTHER TONGUE
3 min |
September/October 2021
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NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN
With a 150-year-old law under threat, public lands mining faces a reckoning.
10+ min |