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Mother Jones

July/August 2020
Magazine

Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization with a bimonthly magazine that delivers bold and original reporting on the urgent issues of our day, from politics and climate change to education and the food we eat. We investigate stories that are in the public’s interest. From revelatory scoops to deep-dive investigations, Mother Jones journalism is award-winning storytelling that informs and inspires 8 million monthly readers.

CORRUPTION KILLS

COVID PRO QUO • Donald Trump's Killer Corruption

THE PRINCE OF PPE • Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America’s supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.

FAILED STATE • How the president’s denial of reality made a dangerous virus even more deadly

SOCIALLY DISTANT • Not even a pandemic can bridge the partisan divide.

BLACK DEATHS MATTER • White people are demanding their lives back as Black people lose theirs.

COVIDIOCRACY • Some of the dumbest official responses to the coronavirus crisis

FALSE POSITIVES • Empty talk can’t hide how far behind we are on testing.

DEATH AND TAXES • The Trump tax cut failed to deliver for all but the very rich. And the GOP thinks this is the perfect time for more.

DEBT COLLECTOR • Donald Trump has nearly $500 million in loans coming due. They may be his biggest conflict of interest yet.

CRUISE CONTROL • Worker exploitation, illegal dumping. Cover-ups. Tax dodging. How the Trumpiest industry on Earth stays afloat.

ESCAPE ARTIST • Trump’s racist blameshifting has poisoned the well for a real debate about high-security facilities.

BITTER PILL • We need COVID-19 treatments ASAP—but a perverse incentive could slow pharma breakthroughs.

GOING POSTAL • The pandemic gives the GOP a whole new way to squash the vote.

“WORKERS ARE BEING SACRIFICED” • As coronavirus cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept works on crowded factory floors.

THE END OF EMPIRE • What do decline and fall feel like?

ET TU, USA? • Doing as the Romans did

LEARNING CURVES • How to chart our way out of a pandemic.

CARRIED INTEREST • The plastic industry has a band new bag, thanks to the coronavirus.

PLOT FOR AMERICA • Bring back victory gardens—for good.


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English

Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization with a bimonthly magazine that delivers bold and original reporting on the urgent issues of our day, from politics and climate change to education and the food we eat. We investigate stories that are in the public’s interest. From revelatory scoops to deep-dive investigations, Mother Jones journalism is award-winning storytelling that informs and inspires 8 million monthly readers.

CORRUPTION KILLS

COVID PRO QUO • Donald Trump's Killer Corruption

THE PRINCE OF PPE • Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America’s supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.

FAILED STATE • How the president’s denial of reality made a dangerous virus even more deadly

SOCIALLY DISTANT • Not even a pandemic can bridge the partisan divide.

BLACK DEATHS MATTER • White people are demanding their lives back as Black people lose theirs.

COVIDIOCRACY • Some of the dumbest official responses to the coronavirus crisis

FALSE POSITIVES • Empty talk can’t hide how far behind we are on testing.

DEATH AND TAXES • The Trump tax cut failed to deliver for all but the very rich. And the GOP thinks this is the perfect time for more.

DEBT COLLECTOR • Donald Trump has nearly $500 million in loans coming due. They may be his biggest conflict of interest yet.

CRUISE CONTROL • Worker exploitation, illegal dumping. Cover-ups. Tax dodging. How the Trumpiest industry on Earth stays afloat.

ESCAPE ARTIST • Trump’s racist blameshifting has poisoned the well for a real debate about high-security facilities.

BITTER PILL • We need COVID-19 treatments ASAP—but a perverse incentive could slow pharma breakthroughs.

GOING POSTAL • The pandemic gives the GOP a whole new way to squash the vote.

“WORKERS ARE BEING SACRIFICED” • As coronavirus cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept works on crowded factory floors.

THE END OF EMPIRE • What do decline and fall feel like?

ET TU, USA? • Doing as the Romans did

LEARNING CURVES • How to chart our way out of a pandemic.

CARRIED INTEREST • The plastic industry has a band new bag, thanks to the coronavirus.

PLOT FOR AMERICA • Bring back victory gardens—for good.


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