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LIGHTS, CAMERA, PROPAGANDA
Mother Jones

LIGHTS, CAMERA, PROPAGANDA

How right-wing provocateurs like Candace Owens weaponizing documentary filmmaking

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March/April 2023
The Abortion Pill's Secret Money Men
Mother Jones

The Abortion Pill's Secret Money Men

The untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex-and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs

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March/April 2023
Forever Home
Mother Jones

Forever Home

A Native woman fought for years to gain custody of her granddaughter. Now the case is before the Supreme Court and could have consequences far beyond child welfare.

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March/April 2023
THE WEBSITE FROM HELL
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THE WEBSITE FROM HELL

> THE TROLLS > WHO HOUNDED PEOPLE TO KILL > > THEMSELVES > CREATED THE > ONLINE CULTURE > WE HAVE TODAY.

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March/April 2023
STREAM OF NOXIOUSNESS
Mother Jones

STREAM OF NOXIOUSNESS

How Nick Fuentes' white nationalist broadcasts summoned a new generation of GOP hate

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March/April 2023
THE CLOSER
Mother Jones

THE CLOSER

Can red-state voters be persuaded to protect abortion? This organizer has done it twice.

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March/April 2023
THE PRISON PROFESSOR
Mother Jones

THE PRISON PROFESSOR

Leo Hylton is on a mission to teach away incarceration, one Zoom at a time.

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March/April 2023
OUTGUNNED
Mother Jones

OUTGUNNED

Kevin McCarthy holds the gavel. Insurrectionists will run the House.

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March/April 2023
Jervis Middleton – Black and Blue
Mother Jones

Jervis Middleton – Black and Blue

Torn between community and badge, Officer Jervis Middleton had to make a choice. It didn’t go well.

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January/February 2023
A Watershed Moment
Mother Jones

A Watershed Moment

Rain gardens can help cities adjust to a changing climate.

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January/February 2023
Stranger Dangers
Mother Jones

Stranger Dangers

How one website has become a magnet for kids and sexual predators, and what it might mean for the future of tech.

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January/February 2023
The Dirty Secrets of Elite College Admissions
Mother Jones

The Dirty Secrets of Elite College Admissions

The Supreme Court is set to kill affirmative action. Just not for rich white kids.

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January/February 2023
Номе Front
Mother Jones

Номе Front

Months after they fled, ukrainians return home, seeking normalcy-or at least closure. Instead they find rubble and dust.

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January/February 2023
POWER LUNCH
Mother Jones

POWER LUNCH

Why universal free school meals matter

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January/February 2023
The charged language of policing
Mother Jones

The charged language of policing

AMERICAN POLICE speak in a peculiar lexicon. When an officer guns somebody down, it is an \"officer-involved shooting.\" When a department spokesperson speaks of \"the use of force,\" police violence is reduced to basic physics.

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January/February 2023
THE ROE EFFECT
Mother Jones

THE ROE EFFECT

Abortion played a decisive role in November. Now the battle moves to the courts.

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January/February 2023
FALSE FLAGS: WHAT LIES BENEATH
Mother Jones

FALSE FLAGS: WHAT LIES BENEATH

Let us not lose sight of the January 6 insurrectionists’ real motivation.

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January/February 2023
REVENGE OF THE NORMS - THE GREAT REPRIEVE
Mother Jones

REVENGE OF THE NORMS - THE GREAT REPRIEVE

Democracy was on the ballot. It won the chance to stay there.

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January/February 2023
RULES FOR RADICALS MAGA MAYHEM
Mother Jones

RULES FOR RADICALS MAGA MAYHEM

The ongoing threat to American democracy will come from an unrepentant House.

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January/February 2023
ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PUNDITS IN THE BACK
Mother Jones

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PUNDITS IN THE BACK

Are media commentators really so clueless about the media?

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January/February 2023
FREE THE PILL
Mother Jones

FREE THE PILL

The FDA is poised to approve the first over-the-counter birth control. What took so long?

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November/December 2022
SLIM PICKINGS
Mother Jones

SLIM PICKINGS

Netflix's reality show Love Is Blind promised to ignore looks, but then platformed thin white people anyway.

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November/December 2022
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
Mother Jones

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

Harm reduction is demonized by conservative media and attacked by lawmakers. This is what it actually looks like.

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November/December 2022
Surveillance State
Mother Jones

Surveillance State

From abortion to schools, the GOP is turning Ben SPIK everyday citizens into culture war snitches.

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November/December 2022
Live Laugh Lay Waste
Mother Jones

Live Laugh Lay Waste

Moms for Liberty is upending schools and radicalizing parents and it could decide the midterms.

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November/December 2022
POWER BALL
Mother Jones

POWER BALL

How oligarchs, private equity, and petrostates took over soccer

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November/December 2022
THE LONGEST WAR
Mother Jones

THE LONGEST WAR

Will Black World War II veterans finally get their due?

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November/December 2022
CAPITOL EXPRESS
Mother Jones

CAPITOL EXPRESS

Gov. Greg Abbott bused thousands of migrants from Texas to DC. Here's what became of them.

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November/December 2022
TRIGGER MAN
Mother Jones

TRIGGER MAN

Republican politicians have embraced Donald Trump's incitement to violence

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November/December 2022
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
Mother Jones

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

The case for combining farming and solar energy

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November/December 2022