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Writers

Mac McClelland

Crime

When ‘Not Guilty’ is a Life Sentence

What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.

Mac McClelland New York Times Magazine Sep 2017 30min Permalink

Science

The Psychedelic Miracle

On the underground doctors unleashing the healing powers of hallucinogens.

Mac McClelland Rolling Stone Mar 2017 35min Permalink

Is Prostitution Just Another Job?

What sex workers think about legalizing sex work.

Mac McClelland New York Mar 2016 25min Permalink

"We Learned Together"

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

Mac McClelland Buzzfeed May 2015 30min Permalink

Science

Slip Sliding Away

Locals on the Outer Banks are arguing about whether climate change is real. Meanwhile, their islands are disappearing.

Mac McClelland Audubon Mar 2015 10min Permalink

How I Learned To Be OK With Feeling Sad

It wasn’t easy, or cheap.

Mac McClelland Buzzfeed Feb 2015 10min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

What It Takes to Be the French Jennifer Lawrence

The art of the voiceover.

Mac McClelland Medium Nov 2014 20min Permalink

World

How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp

Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?

Mac McClelland New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink

Politics Science

Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Apr 2013 35min Permalink

Arts Food

This Is What Humane Slaughter Looks Like. Is It Good Enough?

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

Mac McClelland Modern Farmer Apr 2013 10min Permalink

Politics World

I Can Find an Indicted Warlord. So Why Isn't He in The Hague?

Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Sep 2011 25min Permalink

Best Article

Hearts and Minds

How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Jan 2013 35min Permalink

World

The Love That Dares

Confronting homophobia in Uganda.

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Jan 2012 Permalink

I'm Gonna Need You to Fight Me on This

A reporter on how violent sex helped ease her PTSD.

Mac McClelland Good Jun 2011 10min Permalink

A Fistful of Dollars

On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Nov 2010 Permalink

Best Article Politics World

For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Apr 2011 40min Permalink

Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell

On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.

Mac McClelland Mother Jones Jan 2011 25min Permalink