The Mother Jones Podcast
Each episode will go deep on a big story you’ll definitely want to hear more about. We’ll share with you our best investigations (think private prisons, electoral skullduggery, Dark Money, and Trump's Russia connections), and informative interviews with our reporters and newsmakers. We're hoping to make your week more informed with the stories that really matter, told by us, the folks you trust for smart, fearless reporting.
A Special Announcement
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
Are These Black Leaders on the Cusp of a New National Movement?
The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South
Ammon Bundy Is Running to Be Idaho’s Next Governor
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID
The Afghan Refugee Crisis Has Only Just Begun
The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema
CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big Lie
Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul
Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Culture Wars
Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of Doonesbury
Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?
A Special Summer Announcement from the Podcast Team
The Insurrection Was a Giant Recruitment Exercise for Extremists
Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold
Leaked Video: How a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections
“We’re Torn Apart”: Inside India’s Worsening COVID Nightmare
“Queen Sugar” Author Natalie Baszile: Black Farmers Can Help Save the Planet
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land
The Oscar-Nominated Writers of Judas and the Black Messiah Make History
Derek Chauvin Is Guilty. The Fight for Real Justice Is Far From Over.
How America's Super-Rich Tax Evaders Are Hurting Everyone
The Hidden Influence of Lady Bird Johnson
Hope and Fear: The Dangerous New COVID Phase, Explained
Stop the COVID Shaming!
A Post-Trump Guide to Stopping the Lies and Healing Our Politics
What Happened in Jackson, Mississippi, Was a Catastrophe—and a Warning Sign
All Hail Pop Queen Selena, Who Showed Us How to Belong
Stacey Abrams Is Hellbent on Stopping the GOP's "Jim Crow 2.0"
Roxane Gay Says Cancel Culture Does Not Exist
The Vaccine Rollout Is Racist. We Can Do Something About That.
Biden Can't Make Trump's Immigration Cruelty Vanish Overnight
What the Hell Is “Truth and Reconciliation”, Anyway?
Impeachment Trial Day One: The Damning Case Against Donald Trump
Biden Confronts Our Climate Crisis Head On
Dr. Seema Yasmin Grew Up Believing Conspiracies. Now She Fights Them.
The Post-Trump Era Is Here: Inside Joe Biden's Historic Inauguration
Twice Impeached: Trump’s Name Will Live Forever in Shame and Infamy
Trump's Terror Tactics and America's History of Racist Violence
I Watched the Capitol Siege Begin. I Was Threatened For Being a Reporter.
BREAKING: Goodbye, Mitch. Democrats Win the Senate.
Trump Won't Stop Lying, Extorting, and Cheating, Even If It Kills the GOP
2020 Needs Its Own History Book. Here’s Our First Draft.
“He Won’t Get Played:” Biden’s Biographer on Lessons from the Obama White House
Prayer and Politics: On the Campaign Trail in Georgia with Raphael Warnock
Georgia’s Runoff Races Are Usually Disasters for Dems. This Time Is Different.
Will Biden Finally Fix America's Crippling Student Debt Crisis?
The Safest Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving, According to Science
Surge Shock: Top Coronavirus Experts Share Fixes for Our Broken System
Biden Won. Now He Needs to Save the Planet.
Live Podcast Special: How Biden Banished Trump
No Clear Outcome. No Clear Rejection of Trump. Now We Wait.
Staying Sane During America's Coming Constitutional Firestorm
Live Special: How to Survive Election Night (and Beyond)
How Biden Can Pull Off the Once-Unthinkable: Win Arizona
Trump, Guns, and 2020: One Hunting Family Tackles America's Biggest Debates
Trump’s Biggest Florida Influencer: A Cuban YouTuber with a Pet Monkey
Trump's Trashy Debate Performance Proved Biden's Point: This Choice Is Stark
After RBG: Our Fight for Democracy Just Got More Desperate
CNN's Brian Stelter: Inside the Toxic Trump-Fox Feedback Loop
Young. Black. Gay. Heading to Congress. Meet the Ascendant Mondaire Jones.
QAnon Is Infecting Congress. How the Wild Conspiracy Theory Went Mainstream.
Progressive Prosecutors Are Frontline Fighters in the New Culture War
The Biggest Night of Kamala Harris's Life
"We Know How to Lead." Rep. Barbara Lee on Kamala Harris and the Unifying Power of Black Women
I'm a New Dad Freaking Out About Pandemic Day Care. So I Called the Expert.
An Unhinged President Declares War on Protesters. (No, Not Trump.)
Samantha Bee: What Using the C-Word Taught Me About Trump-Era Comedy
Debbie Harry on Blondie, Bowie, and Bees
John Leguizamo on Trump, Dirty Jokes, and Whitewashing Latinx History
Screaming and Christmas Trees: A Beloved Rehab's Dark Side
"Our Job Is to Unlearn All That Shit": Actor Diane Guerrero Reckons With Whiteness in Hollywood and Beyond
Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. How Much More Can America Take, Mr. President?
Defunding the Police Is Only the Beginning
"Bigotry Is a Lethal Weapon": Ibram X. Kendi's Guide to Fighting Racism
This Summer Will Be Long, Violent, and Necessary
The Unprecedented Challenge of Grieving 100,000 Americans
Celebrate Pandemic Workers. Then Fight Like Hell for Their Rights.
Exclusive: Stacey Abrams on Trump's Existential Threat to Voting
Fight Trump with Science. Fight Trump with Data. Fight Trump with Facts.
Trump's 100 Days of Deadly Coronavirus Denial
ICE Detainees Got Pepper-Sprayed After Demanding Coronavirus Help
Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiffs' Urgent Plans to Investigate Trump’s Coronavirus Disaster
Online Learning During the Pandemic Is Extra Tough Where Wifi Is Illegal
I Beat COVID-19. But I Can’t Donate My Blood for Research Because I’m Gay.
Doctors on the Pandemic Frontlines Speak Out
Many Restaurants May Never Re-Open After Coronavirus
Surviving Trump’s Border Crossing is Just the Beginning. Here’s What Happens Next.
I’m Self-Quarantined for Coronavirus After Attending Trump's Big GOP Love-in
Sci-Fi Genius William Gibson's Trump-Free Alternate Reality
Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Big Night. Bernie's Long Fight.
Pramila Jayapal on Bernie's Historic Candidacy and Trump's Toxic Presidency
How the QAnon Conspiracy is Adapting to Help Trump in 2020
She Killed Her 3 Kids. Does She Belong in Prison?
How Bernie Sanders Won New Hampshire
What the Iowa Caucus Data Debacle Means
Trump Is Going to Get Off Scot-free. Or Is He?
Van Jones: Liberals Can Work With Trump to Make America Better
Trump Is an "Existential" Threat: Ilana Glazer, Eric Holder, and 2020
My Brother Fled Australia's Climate-Fueled Inferno: "It Was a War Zone"
The Political Fight that Will Shape 2020—and Beyond
How to Burst Your Reality Bubble and Embrace Lasting Solutions
Trump's Name Will Be Stained By Impeachment Forever
They Made a Killing on the Mortgage Crisis. Now They Run Trump's America.
We've Never Seen a Primary Season Quite Like This
Trump's Stealth Attack on Skilled Migration
Trump Is Winning the Border Wars. For Now.
The Republican Conspiracy Frenzy Can Only Protect Trump for So Long
A Fearless Pop Superstar Navigates Hong Kong’s Violent Stand-Off
We Got 8 Presidential Candidates to Confront the World's Biggest Threat
Ronan Farrow on How NBC Almost Derailed #MeToo Before It Began
Inside the US Marshals' Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
Trump's Reckless Gift to ISIS
Naomi Klein’s Blistering Warning: Fight for Your Lives.
Trump's Unexplained $50 Million Loan. Is It Tax Fraud?
History Comes Knocking for Donald Trump
I'm Racist. You're Racist. The System Is Racist. Now What?
Searing 9/11 Stories from the Day that Changed Everything
“Our President Is Unstable”: A Senator Tears into Trump's Reckless Racism
Rapsody’s Newest Album Is a Rapturous Celebration of Black Womanhood
A Radical Idea for Reclaiming Our Toxic Reality
Epstein, QAnon, and the Conspiracist in Chief
El Paso’s Nightmare Is America’s New Normal
Trump Killed the Era of Great American Diplomacy
Gun-Safety Activist Shannon Watts on How to Fight Like a Mom and Beat the NRA
Critic Emily Nussbaum Says You Should Never Feel Shame for Loving that TV Show
An Unaccompanied Minor's Online Detective Work Is Giving Hope to Others
"Intentional Cruelty": AOC Tells Us What She Saw Inside a Migrant Detention Center
Tennessee Is Accelerating Executions. I Went to See Why.
Betrayal. Torture. Escape. An American ISIS Wife’s Exclusive Tell-All.
Inside an ISIS Prison
My Secret Journey to the War America Can't Escape
Happy Pride. Here’s What We’re Fighting For.
The Only State Lawmaker Who Lives on the Border
Women Are Under Attack and Fighting Back
Julián Castro's Anti-Trump Border Battle
Trump Is Rigging the Census
Want Access? Pay Your Way to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
Doug Jones Explains How to Win in the South
The Mueller Report Is the Opposite of an Exoneration
Columbine Changed Everything
How One Border Town Beat Extremist Vigilantes
Mayor Pete’s Plan to Beat Trump
Donald Trump Should Probably Stop Dancing in the Street
Mueller Is Done. Trump Is About To Go Nuclear.
How Tech Giants Gave the NZ Shooter More Firepower
Now Is the Time to Freak Out
The Real Border Crisis Trump’s Not Talking About
Rehabs Are Targeting and Trapping Opioid Users
How to Finally Reboot the Oscars
So Many Candidates. Who Can Beat Trump?
The Maddening Fight for 6-Year-Old Moira Ermentrout
Everyone Hates the State of the Union Address
Breaking News Edition: Why Roger Stone's Arrest Should Scare Don Jr.
The Painful Reality of Surviving Trump’s Shutdown
Mr. President, Have You Ever Worked for Russia?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Biggest Fight
He Was Dying. Then Doctors Tried Some Forgotten Viruses.
Be a Better You: How to Break Political Tribalism
DeRay Mckesson on How to Turn Outrage into Hope
"Broad City" Star Ilana Glazer Takes Over the Podcast
David Byrne Rode His Bike to Our Office and Talked About Everything
Trump Put a Target on Our Backs: Trans Americans Fight Back
How the Trump-Addicted Media Blew Another Election
Lie, Block, Betray: Trump After the Blue Wave
Breaking News Edition: Trump Goes Full Mob Boss
Trump Wakes Up Shaking
Trump Ate the GOP. Now He’s Digesting It.
It’s Finally Time to Talk About the Polls
Road Trip Through the Battleground States
The Argument for Rage
The Conservative Case for Destroying the GOP
Breaking News Edition: Ford’s Bravery, Kavanaugh's Fury
A Constitutional Crisis Is Just a Tweet Away
Voting Has Never Been Harder—or More Important
The Viruses That Could Save Us All
The Mind-Boggling Private Prison Comeback
America's Rage-Inducing Student Debt Machine
Cohen, Guilty. Manafort, Guilty. Now What?
Parkland Teens Are Throwing Everything at the Midterms
Putin Is Hacking America on Trump's Watch
Ben Carson’s War on Fair Housing
#MeToo Heads to Church
Rev. William Barber Is Fighting Like Hell for Democracy
Can Violent Racists Kick Their Addiction to Hate?
Who Gets to Make America
Nightmare at the Border
Dan Pfeiffer Tries to Save America
Strippers, Guns, and Cash: Selling Painkillers in America
Torn Apart by Trump's Travel Ban
Make America Toxic Again
Primary Season in America