Mother Jones

Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education, climate change, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website, social-media presence, videos, podcasts, email newsletters, and print and digital magazine.

Contributions

An Internet Without News • Tech moguls are over journalism.

Exit to the Right • A startup with ties to Peter Thiel, the alt-right, and New York’s anti-woke scene dreams of a Mediterranean “cryptocity.”

What in the REC?! • The feds say they’re beating their renewable energy goals. Really?

Love Me As I Am • More young disabled people are taking sex ed— and getting a new chance at healthy relationships

Dry Run • The only way to save the Colorado River and the 40 million people who depend on it is to take on some sacred cows.

Where the Water Goes • 1.9 trillion gallons of water are taken from the Colorado River system. But most of that water goes to cows, not cities.

Pipe Dreams • Can a Colorado cowboy rustle Utah’s water?

Lake Effect • The peril facing Great Salt Lake is so catastrophic, Utah state officials are finally trying to save it.

Oil and Water • The Uinta Basin is home to rare birds, endangered fish, meandering rivers, gorgeous views—and a fossil fuel drilling boom.

Sucking Up • Wells running dry in your homeland? Come to America.

The Untouchables • Donald Trump freed a nursing home mogul who committed one of the biggest Medicare frauds in history. But the Justice Department may get the last laugh.

Are you there, God? It’s me, Shannon Hale. • The next Judy Blume could be this Mormon children’s book author who writes about princes who wear pink.

Strike That • Photographer Michael Friberg captured actors and screenwriters protesting diminishing residuals and AI replacement.

Middle Class • How politicians misunderstand the middle class

Science Fiction • Why are so many studies being retracted—and how can we fix it?

Milking It • Dairy alternatives are better for the planet. So why are we subsidizing cow juice?