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Mother Jones

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.

Ian Gordon Mother Jones Dec 2016 10min Permalink

Politics

“I Didn’t Come Here to Lose”

The movement at Standing Rock.

Wes Enzinna Mother Jones Dec 2016 10min Permalink

Undercover With a Border Militia

Inside America’s resurgent paramilitary movement.

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Shane Bauer on the Longform Podcast

Shane Bauer Mother Jones Oct 2016 55min Permalink

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?

Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime

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.”

Shane Bauer Mother Jones Jun 2016 2h20min Permalink

Crime

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.

Dave Gilson Mother Jones Jul 2014 30min Permalink

Business

Fully Loaded

How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business.

Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Science Food

Playing Chicken

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

Tom Philpott Mother Jones May 2016 20min Permalink

Business

Car Trouble

Inside the lucrative, predatory, booming world of subprime car loans.

Gary Rivlin Mother Jones Apr 2016 20min Permalink

Health

My Right to Die

A personal and legal history of assisted suicide.

Kevin Drum Mother Jones Jan 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

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.

Corey G. Johnson, Ken Armstrong Mother Jones Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Crime Politics

When a Kid Kills His Longtime Abuser, Who's the Victim?

Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.

Marc Bookman Mother Jones Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Business Crime 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.

Tim Murphy Mother Jones Nov 2015 35min Permalink

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.

Molly Redden Mother Jones Sep 2015 20min Permalink

Business Science

Heart of Agave

A small organic agave farmer stands firm against the collision of Big Agriculture and tequila.

Ted Genoways Mother Jones Aug 2015 10min Permalink

Science

The Rehab Racket

The death of one Nevada man in a chaotic, unregulated, and expensive industry.

John Hill Mother Jones May 2015 15min Permalink

Politics

Robby Mook Just Took the Hardest Job in Politics

Meet a man who could be called the “Hillaryland Whisperer.”

Patrick Caldwell, Andy Kroll Mother Jones Apr 2015 15min Permalink

Crime

The Wrong Way

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.

Jennifer Gonnerman Mother Jones Mar 2015 20min Permalink

Room for Improvement

Ending homelessness is really quite simple: give people somewhere to live. Why’s Utah the only place willing to try it?

Scott Carrier Mother Jones Feb 2015 25min Permalink

Mad Men

Inside the men’s rights movement—and the army of misogynists it spawned.

Mariah Blake Mother Jones Jan 2015 25min Permalink

Business

California Goes Nuts

It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.

Tom Philpott Mother Jones Jan 2015 15min Permalink

Business Science

Money ≠ Happiness. QED.

The old axiom that more is better is no longer true.

Bill McKibben Mother Jones Mar 2007 30min Permalink

Arts Business Food

"Hurt That Bitch"

What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.

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Excerpted from The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.

Ted Genoways Mother Jones Oct 2014 35min Permalink

Politics

Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core

How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.

Tim Murphy Mother Jones Sep 2014 25min Permalink

Crime

How a Squad of Ex-Cops Fights Police Abuses

An experiment in public defense.

Jason Fagone Mother Jones Aug 2014 25min Permalink

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