This Kafkaesque Nightmare Shows Just How Absurd the Travel Ban Is
Editor’s Note: On the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s travel ban in January, Mother Jones asked readers to share their stories about how the ban has affected them. That’s how we found...
View Article“He Grabbed My Butt. I Dumped an Entire Tray With 10 Glasses of Red Wine on...
In recent months, accusations of sexual harassment have cropped up at major restaurants across the country. Even at eateries where high-profile chefs haven’t come under scrutiny, tipped workers often...
View Article“I Will Never Drink Again”
Mary Roth was diagnosed with breast cancer at 52. She always wondered why she developed the disease but her three sisters did not. “I drank and drink more alcohol than my sisters ever did,” Roth wrote...
View ArticleDan Pfeiffer Doesn’t Believe That the Pope Endorsed Trump
Dan Pfeiffer, one of the most influential political voices from the Obama White House, has a plan to fight back in the Trump era. In his debut book, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama,...
View ArticleA Former Klansman Talks About How He Left a Life of Hate
Shane Johnson was born into the Ku Klux Klan—now he works to convince others not to join hate groups. How did he get out? And what can we learn from his story? On the Mother Jones Podcast, senior...
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Parkland Teens: Instead of Calling Us Saviors and Superheroes, Go Vote
Six months ago, the debate around gun safety took a sharp turn. A group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, mourning the recent deaths of 17 people who had been...
View ArticleYou Can Do Everything Right and Still Get Screwed: Student Debt Forgiveness...
On this week’s episode of the Mother Jones Podcast, the rage-inducing inside story of America’s student debt machine: how the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program is failing the very people it’s...
View ArticleEverything You Wanted to Know About Polling But Were Afraid to Ask
In this week’s episode of The Mother Jones Podcast, host Jamilah King talks with some of today’s best interpreters of polling about the shortcomings of the dark art and what it can actually tell us...
View ArticleIt’s Been a Tough Few Weeks for Transgender Folks. We Want to Hear Your Voice.
Recently, bad news for the transgender community has increased. Just last week, the New York Times reported on a draft memo from the Department of Health and Human Services and noted, “The department...
View ArticleHow to Fight With a Trump Target on Your Back. Stories of Hope and Survival...
“We’ve gone from a presidency of progress to a presidency of prejudice,” Sarah McBride, the first transgender person to speak at a major party’s political convention, explains on the Mother Jones...
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