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Mother Jones

May/June 2022
Magazine

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.

Contributors

Their Fight is Our Fight • The truth is kryptomite for authoritarians and oligarchs—in Russia, and here at home.

The Copper Rush • Will the green economy wreck Native lands?

Lessons Not Learned • How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

Tiny's House • An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness

The Smash-and-Grab-Economy • Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess and fight for the scraps.

Flipped Off • Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.

Happy Birthday to Me • Private equity tycoons sure know how to throw a party…for themselves.

Pipe Dreams • How to cash in on federal climate tax credits…by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.

No Quick Fix • Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.

Mobilizing Homes • How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm

Wild Goose Chase • Elizabeth Warren's yearslong battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

Welcome to Private Equity City • With more than $4.5 trillion in investments in dozens of industries, private equity has something for everyone. So what are you waiting for? Explore what PE City can do for you.

Capitol Gains • Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

Hey Mr. DJ, Play That PE Song • Investment firms are snatching up classics by some of the biggest names in music.

Congress' Biggest Private Equity Investors • DC's wealthiest politicians have poured tons of cash into PE funds.

Sold Out • How a newspaper got gutted, and other tales from the front lines of corporate takeovers

Leon's No Good, Very Bad Year • The Apollo co-founder was on top of the world. Then 2020 hit.

A Few Good Men • Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.

Dance Dance Revolution • Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."

Endemic • How the scientific label has masked political choices

Once Upon a Planet • Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?

Door Dashed • Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?


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News & Politics

Languages

English

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.

Contributors

Their Fight is Our Fight • The truth is kryptomite for authoritarians and oligarchs—in Russia, and here at home.

The Copper Rush • Will the green economy wreck Native lands?

Lessons Not Learned • How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

Tiny's House • An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness

The Smash-and-Grab-Economy • Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess and fight for the scraps.

Flipped Off • Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.

Happy Birthday to Me • Private equity tycoons sure know how to throw a party…for themselves.

Pipe Dreams • How to cash in on federal climate tax credits…by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.

No Quick Fix • Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.

Mobilizing Homes • How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm

Wild Goose Chase • Elizabeth Warren's yearslong battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

Welcome to Private Equity City • With more than $4.5 trillion in investments in dozens of industries, private equity has something for everyone. So what are you waiting for? Explore what PE City can do for you.

Capitol Gains • Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

Hey Mr. DJ, Play That PE Song • Investment firms are snatching up classics by some of the biggest names in music.

Congress' Biggest Private Equity Investors • DC's wealthiest politicians have poured tons of cash into PE funds.

Sold Out • How a newspaper got gutted, and other tales from the front lines of corporate takeovers

Leon's No Good, Very Bad Year • The Apollo co-founder was on top of the world. Then 2020 hit.

A Few Good Men • Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.

Dance Dance Revolution • Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."

Endemic • How the scientific label has masked political choices

Once Upon a Planet • Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?

Door Dashed • Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?


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