Mother Jones

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TEAM OF VIRALS • A new breed of Democrats is giving fans an all-access backstage pass to the political sausage-making. Is this transparency, or TMI?

GRIN AND BARE IT • A revealing history of public servants deciding to make the personal political

WEAPON OF CHOICE • What happened when one woman tried to make safe and cheap abortion pills available through the mail

VERY PRIVATE PRISONS • Want to know how your local jail operates? Sorry, that may be a trade secret.

DRAINING THE SWAMP

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE… • Facebook talks a good game about connecting us, but it’s really tearing us—and our democracy—apart.

YOUR TIMELINE

HOOKED • How a loosely regulated rehab industry baits recovering drug users into a deadly cycle

7 Ways to Find a Good Rehab Facility

BOY MEETS HATE • A high school rumor. An underground Nazi cell. A rendezvous in the dark. What happens when self-loathing meets the new age of extremism.

Life After Life • Thousand were locked up for crimes they committed as teens. The Supreme Court has given them a chance at freedom. Now comes the hardpart.

WE WILL BOT YOU • Artificial intelligence could put a bunch of composers out of work—and transform the way we make music.

GET IN LINE. FOLLOW THE RULES. GO TO JAIL. • A Haitian asylum-seeker’s nightmare journey shows the extreme human toll of Trump’s immigration regime.

VISIBLE MAN • With the success of Very Smart Brothas, blogger Damon Young is ready for his close-up.

BACH, DON’T KILL MY VIBE • Behind the hit podcast that applies classical music theory to hip-hop

THE CADENCE OF CONFLICT • How a fateful encounter led an American poet into a civil war

MY MAMMOGRAM WAITING GAME • I delayed getting one until I was supposed to. Would it have caught my cancer?

HELL’S KITCHEN • Crappy prison food is taking a toll on inmates’ health—and costing us all.