The Murder That Has Obsessed Italy
“‘It’s like a novel,’ a newspaper editor once told me, shaking his head. When I recently asked Ruggeri, the chief investigator, to sum up the case, she stared at her desk and just said ‘incredible’ four times.”
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“‘It’s like a novel,’ a newspaper editor once told me, shaking his head. When I recently asked Ruggeri, the chief investigator, to sum up the case, she stared at her desk and just said ‘incredible’ four times.”
Tobias Jones The Guardian Jan 2014 20min Permalink
What did $3M paid to a US consulting firm get Qaddafi? A glowing profile in The New Republic, written by a Harvard professor, who travelled to Tripoli to interview him. On the consulting company’s dime. Which he failed to disclose.
David Corn, Siddhartha Mahanta Mother Jones Mar 2011 10min Permalink
Inside America’s resurgent paramilitary movement.
Shane Bauer Mother Jones Oct 2016 55min Permalink
The intricate dance between highly organized ultras fan organizations, the teams they support, and the mafia for control of the center of curva and the lucrative ticket-touting opportunities that come with it.
Tobias Jones The Guardian Dec 2016 20min Permalink
The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has led to enormous food insecurity across America—even in its richest cities.
Samantha Michaels Mother Jones Dec 2020 15min Permalink
A radical housing program in the San Francisco Bay is recognizing how women who killed their abusers deserve dignity—and a second chance.
Marisa Endicott Mother Jones Oct 2021 25min Permalink
Thousands of Korean children were sent abroad beginning in the 1950s. Now, many of them are returning to their country of origin.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 25min Permalink
How a card-counting former meteorologist from Las Vegas made the first perfect Showcase bid in the 38-year history of The Price Is Right.
Chris Jones Esquire Jul 2010 20min Permalink
An oral history with former employees Sasha Frere-Jones, Alysia Abbott, Piotr Orlov, and Chris Wilcha.
Annie Zaleski AV Club Jun 2015 35min Permalink
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
"I'm gonna come after you with everything I have." —Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham ESPN the Magazine Nov 2017 20min Permalink
In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 10min Permalink
Inside the split of the Hoefler/Frere-Jones typography team.
Jason Fagone New York Jun 2014 20min Permalink
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
A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.
Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink
In 1963, William Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Hattie Carroll and then immortalized – and somewhat defamed – by Bob Dylan. What’s he been up to since then?
Ian Frazier Mother Jones Nov 2004 15min Permalink
Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery.
Lindsay Jones The Atavist Magazine Apr 2021 40min Permalink
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
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.
Ben Goldfarb Mother Jones Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Barry Jones has spent the last 22 years on death row for the murder of a 4-year-old girl. Prosecutors have fought against reopening his case even as the basis for his conviction has fallen apart.
Liliana Segura The Intercept Oct 2017 50min Permalink
When Japanese men in their teens and twenties shut themselves in their rooms, sometimes for a period of years, one way to lure them out is a hired “big sister.”
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jan 2006 Permalink
At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.
Becca Andrews Mother Jones Sep 2021 35min Permalink
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
Energy problems are long problems that often receive short solutions. In 2000, when Mother Jones ran this history about what happened to the energy research boom of the late 70s and early 80s, I was buying $0.99 a gallon gas for my Escort. I chose this story because I think longform journalism can keep people interested in these issues that require decadal attention but are subject to year-to-year fluctuations in public interest. And it’s a great story.
Arthur Allen Mother Jones Mar 2003 15min Permalink
“For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows. When, after five weeks, my knees buckled and I fell to the ground utterly broken, sobbing and rocking to the beat of my heart, it was the patch of sunlight that brought me back.”
Shane Bauer Mother Jones Oct 2012 10min Permalink