I’m Co-Chair of the Mother Jones Union. Facebook Hurt Our Members to Play Politics.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.As a news editor here at Mother Jones, I don’t usually write about our internal business operations. After four years as a reporter for the magazine, I now spend my days working with our staggeringly talented writers to…
8 Days Until the Election. Here Are 8 Ways to Brace for Impact.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Just eight days out. Incumbent Donald Trump wants reelection. He’s the one who a quarter-century ago reportedly posed as his own publicist (a fictional person) to brag about himself on a call with a magazine interviewer, masquerading like…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: October 25 Update
Smart, Fearless Journalism Politics Environment Crime and Justice Food Media Investigations Photos Magazine Podcasts Mother Jones’ union co-chair Patrick Caldwell connects the dots: Facebook’s decision to throttle our content cost Mother Jones at least $400,000—the same amount we had to cut from our payroll this year. Please read his post, and if you can, chip…
Payday Lenders Gave Trump Millions. Then He Helped Them Cash in on the Working Poor.
Mother Jones illustration; Bayne Stanley/ZUMA, Romeo Guzman/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This story was reported in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Puffin Foundation. Mike Hodges was still a small fry among payday lenders when Donald Trump visited Hodges’s hometown…
Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With it.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.You need a story. That’s what they say, anyway. You need sympathetic characters, a villain, some violence, maybe a dramatic escape. That’s what it takes to gain asylum in the United States. You need lots of other things,…
How About Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Jan. 1, 1930 – Civilian Conservation Corps Workers Reforesting Waste Land, Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Circa 1934.Glasshouse/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In 1933, with the…