Remarkable Photos Show What Harm Reduction Actually Looks Like
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The numbers are now frighteningly familiar: Last year more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses, bringing the total death toll to more than 1 million since the invention of OxyContin in 1996. By 2030 another million people are…
How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In August 1944, just two months after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (a.k.a. the GI Bill of Rights), Harry McAlpin, Washington correspondent for the National Negro Publishers Association, warned that the new law, though race-neutral…
The Gruesome Attraction of Prison Tourism Is Being Challenged at Last
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Can One Bay Area Housing Complex Radically Change Affordable Housing?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The walls of Royce McLemore’s small office are covered with fresh and yellowing news clippings, group photos, and thank-you cards—testaments to her commitment to…
An Inside View of Wartime Ukraine
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.I’m standing on a dusty path flanked by a medic, a volunteer fighter, and another journalist. It’s early May and we are traversing through a recently liberated town on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest…
An Exodus From Ukraine: a Visual Diary
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Photographer Peter Turnley has recently traveled in and out of western Ukraine, documenting both the heartbreak and the inspiring moments of people in flight. The French American photographer has documented violent conflicts across the world for more…