The Mother Jones Podcast
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The Mother Jones Podcast
Each episode will go deep on a big story you’ll definitely want to hear more about. We’ll share with you our best investigations (think private prisons, electoral skullduggery, Dark Money, and Trump's Russia connections), and informative interviews with our reporters and newsmakers. We're hoping to...
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A Special Announcement
Things have been a bit quiet around these parts lately, huh? After a few months bringing you some of our best feature investigations read aloud, in pa...
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
We bet you’ve heard one phrase more and more this year than ever before: Critical Race Theory. It’s an obsession on Fox News, and it’s the topic, alon...
Are These Black Leaders on the Cusp of a New National Movement?
With everything going on these days—we’ll spare you the list of existential crises we’re currently living through—now seems like the perfect time to h...
The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South
A week ago, thousands of people turned out for Women's March rallies across the country, galvanized by Texas' recent six-week abortion ban and the ver...
Ammon Bundy Is Running to Be Idaho’s Next Governor
Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has been following Ammon Bundy for years. He's the guy you'll remember who became a kind of folk hero on the...
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID
As the Delta variant upended hope of returning to normal this summer, Mother Jones reporter Edwin Rios published a deeply reported story on Flint, Mic...
The Afghan Refugee Crisis Has Only Just Begun
Towards the end of 2020, Mother Jones’s editorial director Ian Gordon wrote a deeply reported story about how then-President Donald Trump took a broke...
The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema
Every time you read the news lately, there she is: in conversations about bipartisanship, the infrastructure deal, the filibuster, even the fate of Jo...
CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big Lie
Jake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politicians tout...
Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul
Sergey Grishin is a well-connected, billionaire mogul. Last August, he made headlines when he sold his lavish estate to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle...
Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Culture Wars
Everywhere you turned in the aftermath of the 2020 election, someone was arguing a hard line on cultural issues as an explanation for the outcome. The...
Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of Doonesbury
For five decades, Garry Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important—and entertaining—comic strips in American history: Doonesbury. He s...
Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who has spent the last two decades pounding out bestselling accounts of American presidents such as...
A Special Summer Announcement from the Podcast Team
After three years of weekly episodes—that’s 181 shows, if you’re counting—the Mother Jones Podcast team has decided to switch things up for the next c...
The Insurrection Was a Giant Recruitment Exercise for Extremists
The deadly insurrection at the US Capitol wasn’t the start of something, nor was it the end. What happened on January 6 had been planned for weeks, an...
Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold
As we approach the five-month anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party has made one thing clear: They want to forget all about...
Leaked Video: How a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections
The right-wing dark money group Heritage Action for America claims to be the mastermind behind the recent fire hose of state-level voter suppression l...
“We’re Torn Apart”: Inside India’s Worsening COVID Nightmare
A Mother Jones investigation has found that hundreds of visa workers are stuck in India with no way to get back to their families in the United States...
“Queen Sugar” Author Natalie Baszile: Black Farmers Can Help Save the Planet
Natalie Baszile knew she was onto something when she got the call from Oprah’s people. A novelist and food justice activist, Baszile had been working...
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land
Agriculture was once a major source of wealth among the Black middle class in America. But over the course of a century, Black-owned farmland, and the...
The Oscar-Nominated Writers of Judas and the Black Messiah Make History
Judas and the Black Messiah, a ground-breaking film about the life of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, has been hailed as one of the best films of t...
Derek Chauvin Is Guilty. The Fight for Real Justice Is Far From Over.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin delivered its verdict: guilty on all three counts in the killing of George Floyd. The 1...
How America's Super-Rich Tax Evaders Are Hurting Everyone
Money. You’re probably thinking a lot about it these days. From a global pandemic that’s tanked the global economy, to President Joe Biden’s $2 trilli...
The Hidden Influence of Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson always fit the mold of a certain old-fashioned, stereotypical presidential wife: self-effacing, devoted to her generally unfaithful...
Hope and Fear: The Dangerous New COVID Phase, Explained
Earlier this week, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky went off-script during a news conference to issue an emotional warning: a fourth coronavirus sur...
Stop the COVID Shaming!
For many people who contract the coronavirus, shame is an underreported side-effect. Its symptoms are intense bewilderment about the cause of infectio...
A Post-Trump Guide to Stopping the Lies and Healing Our Politics
Cass Sunstein is a public intellectual and provocateur—and he has been pondering a timely issue: public lying. A longtime Harvard law professor and an...
What Happened in Jackson, Mississippi, Was a Catastrophe—and a Warning Sign
Boiling water to drink and bathe. Collecting rainwater to flush toilets. Using bottled water distributed by the National Guard to take care of basic h...
All Hail Pop Queen Selena, Who Showed Us How to Belong
Anything for Selena is more than a podcast about the iconic 1990s superstar Selena Quintanilla. It’s a nine-part series about belonging itself. Journa...
Stacey Abrams Is Hellbent on Stopping the GOP's "Jim Crow 2.0"
Stacey Abrams has a name for the series of bills that just passed the Georgia state legislature: “Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” Abrams joins the Mother...
Roxane Gay Says Cancel Culture Does Not Exist
Roxane Gay is one of the most prolific and versatile writers of our generation. She’s written a best-selling collection of essays (Bad Feminist), a bl...
The Vaccine Rollout Is Racist. We Can Do Something About That.
A new coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has been approved. A new coronavirus variant in New York City has been identified—and is spreading. N...
Biden Can't Make Trump's Immigration Cruelty Vanish Overnight
Overflowing ICE detention centers. Families separated at the border. A multi-billion-dollar border wall. Over the course of his four-year presidency,...
What the Hell Is “Truth and Reconciliation”, Anyway?
House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin delivered a speech during Trump’s impeachment trial last week in which he made a direct appeal to reality: “Dem...
Impeachment Trial Day One: The Damning Case Against Donald Trump
Tears on the Senate floor. Shocking footage of the insurrection. A bumbling and widely panned performance by Donald Trump’s legal team. The former pre...
Biden Confronts Our Climate Crisis Head On
Stopping climate change is back on the White House agenda. President Biden came into with the most ambitious climate change plans of any administratio...
Dr. Seema Yasmin Grew Up Believing Conspiracies. Now She Fights Them.
Trump is gone. But assessing the wreckage wrought by his lies has only just begun. Emerging, battered, from a year advising the former president, Dr....
The Post-Trump Era Is Here: Inside Joe Biden's Historic Inauguration
Today, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. Two weeks after an armed mob stormed the Capitol, the new president paint...
Twice Impeached: Trump’s Name Will Live Forever in Shame and Infamy
Today, President Donald Trump became the first president in US history to be impeached twice. A majority of the US House of Representatives—including...
Trump's Terror Tactics and America's History of Racist Violence
The January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of extremist Trump supporters was shocking and scary—but not surprising. Incendiary rhetoric and racis...