Behind the Lines
A two-part series on America’s role in the Syrian civil war.
Mother Jones
Secrets of the Tax-Prep Business
How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.
“Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs”
How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.
How to Hand out Free Money
Alaska can show us the way.
Generation Underwater
How Washington left students to drown in debt.
Did Drinking Give Me Breast Cancer?
The science on the link is clear, but the alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.
The Secret to Understanding Kamala Harris
And why it’s making her a flash point in the Democratic Party.
Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
On the people who tried to vote and couldn’t.
"This Is a War and We Intend To Win"
The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.
The Deliciously Fishy Case of The "Codfather"
He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.
The Professor Who Came To Stay—and Wouldn't Leave
When Elizabeth Abel returned to the Bay Area home she had rented to a fellow professor on SabbaticalHomes.com, he refused to leave or pay the back rent he owed. She moved in across the street and enlisted her famous academic colleagues to help her get back the house she had raised her children in.
“I Didn’t Come Here to Lose”
The movement at Standing Rock.
Undercover With a Border Militia
Inside America’s resurgent paramilitary movement.
Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined
Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard
“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”
The NRA's Murder Mystery
Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.
Fully Loaded
How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business.
Playing Chicken
The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.
Car Trouble
Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.
Sheldon Adelson Bets It All
The inside story of the megadoner and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.
My Right to Die
A personal and legal history of assisted suicide.
When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—And Went to Jail for Life
Years after the era of the “superpredator,” Taurus Buchanan is still paying for a crime of his youth.
When a Kid Kills His Longtime Abuser, Who's the Victim?
Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.
The Fall of King Coal
The dangerous corporate ethos of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who is on trial after an explosion at one of his mines killed 29.
The War on Women Is Over -- And Women Lost
Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.
