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Mother Jones November + December 2024 Issue
We know you give a damn about this country’s future. So while the corporate media goes all in on horse-race journalism, we've spent this election season digging for the stories that matter.
As the Voting Rights Act Nears 60, Conservative Judges Are …
Aug 6, 2024 · “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared 59 years ago today, as he signed the Voting Rights Act into ...
A Fake Jail Cell, a Real January 6 Defendant, Tears, Prayers, and ...
Aug 6, 2022 · On Friday, a real-life January 6 defendant cosplaying as a January 6 defendant sat sobbing in a fake jail cell at CPAC while wearing an orange jumpsuit and praying with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ...
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would …
On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor ...
It Came From the Basement – Mother Jones
For more articles read aloud: download the Audm iPhone app. Eight months before the white nationalist figure Nicholas J. Fuentes ignited a political firestorm by dining with Kanye West and Donald ...
To Understand Kari Lake, You Have to Understand Local TV News
Nov 8, 2022 · Perhaps nowhere is the local-news politics more pronounced than in New York, where Rep. Lee Zeldin, another election-denying Republican, has mounted a surprisingly strong challenge to Democratic ...
Caught on Film: The Dark World of Truck Stop Sex Workers
Jul 13, 2013 · Life on the road, they say, is lonely. To quote one trucker in Lot Lizard: “These walls close in on you.Being in this truck can actually make you crazy.” As Perlman discovered, however, the ...
A New Documentary Goes Behind the Scenes of Christian …
May 29, 2024 · The new documentary Bad Faith, directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones, begins with footage familiar to many Americans: an army of insurrectionists adorned in stars, stripes, and ...
A federal judge has gone to great lengths to make clear Trump …
Jan 18, 2024 · District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he ...