Research Has Found A Vaccine For BS
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The other day I was talking to someone I love when suddenly, a gulf opened up between my reality and hers. She was, I realized, a vaccine skeptic. Not an active denier, really—just, as she put it, someone who “doesn’t know where the…
Nunes Played The Press Like A Fiddle. Why Do Journalists Keep Falling For This Trick?
Mother Jones; Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a weird feeling when your organization’s reporting ends up at the center of a scandal bordering on constitutional crisis. But things have been weird, and here we are: MoJo‘s October 2016 story about the Steele dossier is a key data point…
Klan Trump, Lioness DiFi, and Other Favorite Illustrations From 2017
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2017, we covered everything from the rise of the alt-right and Trump’s Russian connections to what doctors don’t tell you about pregnancy. Along the way, some very brainy and bold artists lent us their creativity and sweat: For instance, Pushart’s Megan Berkheiser and Mike Caldwell cut…
A Quick Guide to Legal Pot in California
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Californians, legal cannabis is right around the corner. But we have questions. And as it turns out, many of you do, too. A couple weeks ago we wanted to know what questions you had about pot, and the responses were overwhelming.…
“We Need The Whistles Blown”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a while now, we’ve been writing to our community of readers about the unprecedented threats that investigative journalism faces. Between political assaults and economic erosion, it’s been a pretty grim year for the news business. But there’s also been something deeply inspiring about 2017.…
“Don’t Forget About Me, Okay?”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia Lurie didn’t tell her parents that she was looking for drug dealers until afterward. She had been reporting on the opioid epidemic for nearly a year by this point, and she’d just spent a chunk of time in Baltimore and surrounding suburban and rural…