Mother Jones’ New Podcast Series Explores the Hidden War in Syria
Introducing “Behind the Lines,” a Mother Jones Podcast series featuring senior reporter Shane Bauer’s exclusive, on-the-ground reporting in Syria. A year in the making, these episodes follow Bauer as he explores an abandoned prison in the former capital of the Islamic State, hunts for clues about the devastating US-led bombing of Raqqa, and travels to…
“Libraries have become de facto homeless shelters”: Emilio Estevez on His New Movie “The Public”
The last time audiences saw actor Emilio Estevez in a library was in 1985 for a dance sequence in the brat pack classic, The Breakfast Club. Thirty-four years later in his new movie, The Public, Estevez is playing the librarian, caught in the middle of a police standoff with library patrons, most of whom are…
Vigilantes Not Welcome: A Border Town Pushes Back on Anti-Immigrant Extremists
In late August last year, 39-year-old Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer exited La Gitana bar in Arivaca, Arizona, took out his phone, and started recording a video for his Facebook page: “So down here in Arivaca, if you like to traffic in children, if you like to make sure women and children have contraceptives before handing…
David Wallace Wells: It’s Time to Panic About Climate Change
Craig Barritt /Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today’s guest on the Mother Jones Podcast is David Wallace Wells, a deputy editor at New York magazine, and author of a vividly distressing new book about the all-encompassing perils of climate change titled The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. With every full-throated warning,…
Tijuana Is Overwhelmed by a Rush of Asylum-Seekers—Many of Them Women With Children
Sister Salome Limas at the Madre Asunta shelter for women and children in Tijuana Mexico. Fernanda Echavarri Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sister Salome Limas says she recently added a new category to the intake ledger at the women’s shelter in Tijuana. She pulls out a large book, opens it…
No One Likes the State of the Union Address. So Why Bother?
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The annual State of the Union address: What exactly is the point? On the one hand, Nancy Pelosi’s Shutdown Smackdown put President Donald Trump in a corner by threatening to deny all that attention and adulation during a prime-time slot. On the…