The Mother Jones Podcast
The Mother Jones Podcast
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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 make your week more informed with the stories that really matter, told by us, the folks you trust for smart, fearless reporting.
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A Special AnnouncementThings 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 partnership with Audm, we’re going through some behind-the-sce… -
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, along with anti-mask protests, raging at school board hearings a…
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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 hear from two leaders who have a revolutionary vision of what…
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The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the SouthA 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 very real fear that Roe v. Wade could soon be overturned, as ch…
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Ammon Bundy Is Running to Be Idaho’s Next GovernorMother 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 far-right after he joined his father, rancher Cliven Bundy,…
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How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVIDAs the Delta variant upended hope of returning to normal this summer, Mother Jones reporter Edwin Rios published a deeply reported story on Flint, Michigan, recounting how residents of this predominantly Black…
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The Afghan Refugee Crisis Has Only Just BegunTowards the end of 2020, Mother Jones’s editorial director Ian Gordon wrote a deeply reported story about how then-President Donald Trump took a broken asylum system and turned it into a machine of unchecked cr…
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The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten SinemaEvery time you read the news lately, there she is: in conversations about bipartisanship, the infrastructure deal, the filibuster, even the fate of Joe Biden's presidency itself. But who is Kyrsten Sinema of A…
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CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big LieJake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politicians touting the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential electio…
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Escape From the Billionaire Meme MogulSergey Grishin is a well-connected, billionaire mogul. Last August, he made headlines when he sold his lavish estate to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Grishin’s multiple US-based businesses include a social me…
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Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Culture WarsEverywhere 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 point was made by different commentators of at least outwar…
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Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of DoonesburyFor five decades, Garry Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important—and entertaining—comic strips in American history: Doonesbury. He started the strip in October, 1970 as a student at Yale. With…
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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 Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and George H.W. Bush. In…
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A Special Summer Announcement from the Podcast TeamAfter 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 couple of months, as we, like you, emerge from a year that ha…
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The Insurrection Was a Giant Recruitment Exercise for ExtremistsThe 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, and the ideology behind it, brewing for years. That day’s chao…
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Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone GoldAs 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 it—holding Trump and his big lie closer than ever.In the Hou…
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Leaked Video: How a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our ElectionsThe right-wing dark money group Heritage Action for America claims to be the mastermind behind the recent fire hose of state-level voter suppression laws, a new Mother Jones scoop reveals. Mother Jones voting r…
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“We’re Torn Apart”: Inside India’s Worsening COVID NightmareA 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. India is the in the midst of a shocking COVID-19 crisis. H…
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“Queen Sugar” Author Natalie Baszile: Black Farmers Can Help Save the PlanetNatalie 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 for years on a semi-autobiographical novel about a Los Angel…
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The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the LandAgriculture 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 corresponding wealth, has diminished almost to the point of…
