When 772 Pitches Isn't Enough
The fate of a star 16-year-old pitcher in Japan.
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The fate of a star 16-year-old pitcher in Japan.
Chris Jones ESPN the Magazine Jul 2013 25min Permalink
A harrowing journey through Alaskan waters in an ancient tugboat.
Brendan Jones Smithsonian Sep 2016 15min Permalink
A profile of GOP hopeful Jon Huntsman.
Chris Jones Esquire Aug 2011 25min Permalink
Inside the men’s rights movement—and the army of misogynists it spawned.
Mariah Blake Mother Jones Jan 2015 25min Permalink
One woman’s ordeal with Texas’ new sonogram law.
Carolyn Jones The Texas Observer Mar 2012 10min Permalink
Alaska can show us the way.
Katia Savchuk Mother Jones Dec 2018 30min Permalink
A two-part series on America’s role in the Syrian civil war.
Shane Bauer Mother Jones Jun 2019 2h Permalink
Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery are the co-editors of Mother Jones.
"We probably pay more attention to our fact-checking and our research than almost everybody in our industry. By the time we publish stuff, we make sure it's unimpeachable because people would like to impeach it."
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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
The first in-depth piece on Michele Bachmann.
G.R. Anderson Jr. Minneapolis City Pages Oct 2006 20min
A profile of Romney from his last presidential campaign, with a focus on how he evolved from professional consultant to professional candidate.
Ryan Lizza New Yorker Oct 2007 20min
On the calculated political career of Rick Perry, and what it means for his presidential bid.
Paul Burka Texas Monthly Feb 2010 30min
Notes from the Nevada stretch of the Ron Paul campaign trail last time around.
Tucker Carlson New Republic Dec 2007 10min
A look at Jon Hunstman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to China now running well behind in the polls, as he prepared to announce his candidacy.
Chris Jones Esquire Jun 2010 25min
An exhaustive profile of Gingrich, then a 41-year-old congressman balancing a new role on the national stage with the spotlight on his personal life that came with it.
David Osborne Mother Jones Nov 1984 25min
A profile of Rick Santorum published as he began a reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate, a race widely considered a stepping stone to a run for the White House. Santorum went on to lose.
Mike Newall Philadelphia City Paper Sep 2005 25min
A primer on long-shot candidate Herman Cain, former pizza chain CEO and current Tea Party star.
Dave Weigel Slate Jan 2011
On the rapid rise of the New Jersey governor, who doubles as pundits’ favorite noncandidate.
Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Feb 2011
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Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.
Marc Bookman Mother Jones Nov 2015 15min Permalink
Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Sep 2011 25min Permalink
The cops thought they had captured a fugitive. They had not. Elias Fishburne was a hairdresser from Maryland and was going to jail.
Tamara Jones Washington Post Jun 2006 20min Permalink
Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?
Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Aug 2016 20min Permalink
Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.
David Dobbs Pacific Standard Oct 2017 45min Permalink
A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”
Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 20min Permalink
They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.
Seth Freed Wessler Mother Jones Oct 2019 40min Permalink
Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.
Lindsay Jones The Walrus Jun 2020 20min Permalink
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
Leland Nally Mother Jones Oct 2020 40min Permalink
An interview with Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice.
Saeed Jones GQ May 2021 20min Permalink
Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.
Lauren Markham Mother Jones Nov 2021 Permalink
An investigation into the big and often troubling business of caring for aging Americans.
A.C. Thompson, Jonathan Jones ProPublica Jul–Aug 2013 55min Permalink
On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.
Dana Liebelson Mother Jones Nov 2013 15min Permalink
On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Jan 2011 25min Permalink
“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