2022: MOTHER JONES (283)

JANUARY

Desperate Patients Are Shelling Out Thousands for a Long Covid Cure. Is It for Real?

The Year Our Climate Crisis Got Even More Real

The January 6 Committee Just Revealed Alarming Text Messages From Sean Hannity

The Lesson of January 6: Tragedy Does Not Yield National Unity

Mike Pence. Stephen Miller. The Supreme Court. Vaccine Mandates. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Hospitalizations of Kids Under Five Increase as Omicron Rages

More Than 160 People Dead After Brutal Week of Protests in Kazakhstan

The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Begging for Pardons Sound an Awful Lot Like Confederate Soldiers

The Conspiracy Theory About January 6 and the FBI Doesn’t Make Any Sense

The Coming Coup: How Republicans Are Laying the Groundwork to Steal Future Elections

Workers Got Fed Up. Bosses Got Scared. This How the Big Quit Happened. 

An Undersea Volcano Erupted Near Tonga, and the World Is Still Feeling the Aftereffects

Portland Releases Police Training Material That Encouraged Beating Protesters

I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness – Only to Face Your White Savior Complex

GOP States Are Shredding Voting Rights and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema Are Now Complicit

Oath Keepers Anticipated “a Bloody and Desperate Fight” to Overturn the Election for Trump

This Retired UK Salesman Built Homes for 60,000 Beloved Swifts

Some Optimistic News: Omicron Appears to Have Peaked Nationally

The Oil Industry Is Terrified of College Kids

Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire

The Whole World Is Hating on Joe Manchin

We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.

School Boards Have Long Been a Tool of White Supremacy

FEBRUARY

Public Funding Is Pouring Into Texas’ Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers While Abortion Access Hangs in the Balance

The Plan Was Simple: Infiltrate MAGA World and Tell Everyone What She Saw. Then She Was Found Out.

Why Big Chains Thrived While Small Restaurants Died

What Pundits Don’t Understand About the San Francisco Recall

The Trumps Must Comply With Subpoenas in NY Investigation, Judge Rules

APRIL

Amazon Labor Union Wins Historic Election at New York City Warehouse

Madison Cawthorn’s Response to Orgy Scandal: Attack the Liberals

Algerian Man Detained at Gitmo for 20 Years Finally Goes Home

Biden’s Ambitious Climate Agenda Is in Peril

I Have Studied Child Protective Services for Decades. It Needs to Be Abolished.

Big Apps Made a Meal Out of Local Restaurants. Food Delivery Co-Ops Are Fighting Back.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History and Becomes the First Black Woman on Supreme Court

I Work With Refugees. After Fleeing Irpin, I’m Now Displaced Myself.

A Texas Woman Has Been Charged With Murder for an Alleged Self-Induced Abortion

The 1/6 Committee Has Concluded Trump Broke the Law. But It May Not Urge DOJ to Charge Him.

Their Fight Is Our Fight

The White House Just Launched a Huge Conservation Initiative

Here’s How We Can Prevent the Next School Massacre

Russia’s New Motto: “We Are Not Ashamed”

New Data Shows Who, Exactly, Got Evicted the Most During the Pandemic

Exclusive Audio: Far-Right Paramilitary Member Warned 1/6 Committee Witness Against Speaking Out

The Pope Calls for Peace in Ukraine

The Agonizing Life of a College Student in Ukraine

Climate Change Is Making Jobs Deadlier – and OSHA Can’t Take the Heat

The Big Joke Behind Sarah Palin’s Congressional Bid

How an Army of Volunteers Has Welcomed Immigrants in Poland – After the Government Wouldn’t

Obama Is the Latest Celebrity Disinformation Expert

“Good Fire” Can Help Restore Lands in the Eastern US

Don’t Share the DC Shooter’s Video of Him Opening Fire on a School

I’m a Nurse at a Stanford Hospital. I’m Burned Out, Fed Up, And Ready to Strike.

European Union Plans “Largest Ever Ban” on Toxic Chemicals

The Folly of Ramping Up American Gas Exports to Europe

Hazing, Fighting, Sexual Assaults: How Valley Forge Military Academy Devolved Into “Lord of the Flies”

She Accused Her Ex-Husband of Abuse. She’s Still Stuck With His Student Loans.

Climate Change May Fuel “Devastating” Disease Outbreaks

MAY

Pelosi Vows Unwavering Support for Ukraine in Unannounced Meeting With Zelensky

An Oil Train Is Set To Destroy Pristine Utah Mountains. Why Won’t Biden Stop It?

Susan Collins Is Surprised That Conservative Justices Are Doing What Everyone Knew They Would

Outraged Protesters Descend on Lower Manhattan to Rally for Abortion Rights

Abortion’s Last Chance in the South

Abortion Has Always Been a Part of America – Even if Alito Won’t Admit It

Texas’ Electoral College Lawsuit Was So Bad the State Bar Just Filed a Lawsuit About It

Congress “Certainly Could” Ban Abortion Nationwide, McConnell Says

Private Equity’s Smash-and-Grab Economy

Real Estate Predators Tried to Cash In on the Pandemic. Then Tenants Fought Back

Biden and Trump Both Trashed Private Equity’s Favorite Tax Dodge. Surprise! It’s Still Here.

Lauren Boebert’s American Dream

Why Do Social Media Platforms Keep Removing Posts About Save and Legal Abortion Pills?

10 People Killed in “Racially Motivated” Buffalo Shooting

QAnon’s Chief Enabler Ran a Website Where He Brushed Off Concerns About Pedophilic Content

The January 6 Committee Gets Ready for Prime Time

“We Have to Break Ballet Out of the 18th Century”

The FDA Is Coming for Your Almond Milk

Meet the Muslim Mom Who Has Mobilized Asian American Parents in the War on Public Schools

Australian Election Results: Revenge of the Barbecued Koalas

How John Lennon’s Murder Led to Prevention Mass Shootings

Meet the Southern Doctor Fighting to Help Trans Kids

Can One Bay Area Housing Complex Radically Change Affordable Housing?

“Why Are We Willing to Live With This Carnage?”

Blaming Chesa Boudin for Crime Is Empirically Wrong

The Epidemic of Mass Shootings Is Neither Inevitable Nor Unsolvable

The Worst Part of Trump’s Performance at NRA’s Convention Wasn’t When He Read Uvalde Victims’ Names

At the NRA Convention, People Blame Mass Shootings on Everything but Guns

The Epidemic of Mass Shooting Is Neither Inevitable Nor Unsolvable

JUNE

Russia’s War Created a Global Hunger Disaster. Climate Change Is Ramping It Up.

How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation

What to Say if a Kid Asks, “What Does It Feel Like to Die?” and Other Questions About Mass Shootings

Draft Order Would Have Given Armed Trump Supporters Power to Seize Voting Data

Kevin McCarthy Sided With Trump After January 6. Trump Just Rewarded Him.

A 17-Year-Old Processes Police Sexual Violence in One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Novels

The Alternative to Police That Is Proven to Reduce Violence

The January 6 Committee Doesn’t Need New “Bombshells.” We Already Know What Happened.

The Texas Abortion Ban Has Turned clinics Into Travel Agencies

“I Was Slipping in People’s Blood”

I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Thin Blue Line Flags in the January 6 Video

Gun Violence Protests Draw thousands Across the Country

Feds Expand Investigation Into Funding for Trump’s Media Empire

Scientists Race to Create Wheat That Can Withstand Global Warming

First Roe, Then Plyler? The GOP’s 40-Year Fight to Keep Undocumented Kids Out of Public School

Why Haven’t We Figured Out How to Make IUDs Less Excruciating?

Trump Sycophants Advanced a Coup Plot They Knew Was Illegal

80 Percent of Florida, the Only State to Not Order Vaccines for Young Kids, Is At “High” Covid Risk

New Poll Finds 6 in 10 US Adults Support for Prosecuting Trump For January 6 Capitol Attack

US Climate Action Could Save Millions of Lives

How a Former Transcendental Meditation Devotee Ended Up Funding America’s Wildest Right-Wing Spy Op

State Republicans Resisted Trump’s Subversion in 2020. We Got Lucky.

A Plane of Monkeys, a Pandemic, and a Botched Deal: Inside the Science Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of

Roe Is Dead

Abortion Providers Are Asking for Protection as They Prepare for Post-Roe Realities

States With Aborton Bans to Mothers: Drop Dead

Supreme Court Just Ruled in Favor of the Praying High School Football Coach

Thomas and Alito Are Appropriating Racial Justice to Push a Radical Agenda

The Lessons From the Right’s 50-Year-Long Crusade to Limit the Freedom of Women

The Supreme Court Limits the EPA’s Ability to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

JULY

IVF Worked, and 2 Embryos Remain. Soon She May Not Be Allowed To Decide What Happens to Them.

Liz Cheney Hints She Might Run Against Donald Trump in 2024

Horror in Highland Park: the Sixth US Mass Shooting in Seven Weeks

My Daughter Ran. My Father Was Shot. I’ll Never Forget the Strangers Who Helped Us.

Inside an Illinois Abortion Clinic Bracing for Impact

Putin “Rubbing Hands With Glee” After EU Classifies Gas as Green Energy

Why Is Donald Trump Trying to Clear the Way for Steve Bannon to Testify Before Congress?

Trump Will Say Literally Anything – Except “Vaccines”

With Roe Gone, Where Do We Go From Here?

Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory

Brett Rosenau Is the Latest Child Killed in a Botched SWAT Raid

How Close to Death Does a Person Have to Be to Qualify for an Abortion Ban Exemption?

Jim Bopp Wants to Force Pregnant 10-Year-Olds to Give Birth. He’s Also Marjory Taylor Greene’s Lawyer.

Biden Drops Judicial Nomination of Anti-Abortion Lawyer, The Reason Will Make Dems’ Blood Boil

While All Eyes Were on Covid, HIV Researchers Were Making Progress on “The Holy Grail of Vaccines”

Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate – and a Total Nightmare for Democracy

Relatives of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake Went to Ohio to Protest. Then the Cops Came After Them.

Inside the Powerful Anti-Abortion Campaign to Convince You That Everything Is Just Fine

The Jan. 6 Committee Confirmed the Worst Truth About Trump. Now What Will We Do With It?

Jackie Robinson Made the Hall of Fame 60 Years Ago. His First Year in the Major Leagues Was Hell.

Here are the Dumbest Moments of Turning point USA’s Confab in Florida

Where On Earth Is the GOP on Climate Policy?

More Leaked Audio: Bannon Bragged That He Used Porn to Help Smear Hunter Biden

“Alito Was Using Phrases We Had Invented as Bumper-Sticker Slogans in a Supreme Court Decision”

In the GOP’s New Surveillance State, Everyone’s a Snitch

Even More Key January 6 Text Messages Are Missing

Why Can’t Congressional Democrats Imagine a World In Which Fewer People Drive Cars?

AUGUST

“The DCCC Is Not God”

Trump Endorsed an Election Denier Named Eric. He Didn’t Specify Which One.

Inside a Kansas Clinic Where the Battle Over Abortion Is Still Raging

Trump Merch, Rabid Fans, Disgraced Ex-Officials: Inside the Right-Wing Conference Circuit

A Crypto Giant Froze Their Accounts. Now Customers Are Begging a Judge for Their Money Back.

No, You’re Not Dreaming. Congress Really Is on the Verge of Doing Something for the Planet.

What Happened to Royce White?

Trump Says Mar-a-Lago Resort Searched by Feds

She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?

Medical Boards That Can Strip Abortion Providers of Licenses Are Stacked With Republican Donors

Republicans Have No Idea How to Respond to the Latest Reporting on the Mar-a-Lago Raid

The Mar-a-Lago Warrant Shows the FBI Recovered Highly Classified Documents

Defending Trump on Live TV Is Getting Really Awkward for Republicans

Now the Far Right Is Going After School Counselors

Did Democrats Really Just Make a “Devil’s Bargain”?

Liz Cheney Was Defeated By the Extremist Movement She Helped to Empower

Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump’s Longtime CFO, Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud

Greg Abbott Bused Thousands of Migrants from Texas to DC. What Happened Once They Arrived?

Ron DeSantis Scapegoats Former Felons With Voter Fraud Allegations

These Cuties Could Help Save Oregon’s Kelp Forests

The Most Powerful Moms in America Are the New Face of the Republican Party

The Writers of Reality Need to Chill: Republicans Keep Posting KKK Hoods

The Biden Administration Just Announced Sweeping Student Loan Debt Cancellation

Pre-K Went Virtual During the Pandemic. For Some, It May Stay That Way.

J.D. Vance Appeared With Podcaster Who Once Said “Feminists Need Rape”

Trump’s Lawyers Don’t Seem to Have Much of a Defense

Trump’s Truth Social Is in Trouble

Forced Parenthood and Failing Safety Nets: This Is Life in Post-Roe America

How Do Mother Jones Readers Feel About Biden’s Student Loan Relief? Their Answers Might Surprise You.

Inside the Kafkaesque Process for Determining Who Gets Federal Disability Benefits

SEPTEMBER

Trump’s Social Media Business Is a Mess

Hospitalized, Bullied, and Denied Care: Texas’ War on Trans Kids

Sydney “Sea of Roofs” Plan Will Wipe Out Critical Koala Habitat, Critics Say

VA Will Provide Abortions to Eligible Vets – Even in States That Forbid It

“The Bachelorette” Can’t Even Deliver On Its Own Version of Feminism

Newly Uncovered Emails Show Blake Masters’ Long History of Hating Democracy

Rubio Blasted Clinton for Her Emails. Now He Says Trump’s Theft of Top-Secret Records Is No Biggie

It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy

Black or Bot? The Long, Sordid History of Co-opting Blackness Online

Abortion Is Galvanizing Voters. Michigan’s Ballot Measure Will Show Us How Much.

State and Local Taxes Make Inequality Much Worse

Trigger Man: How Trump Spread Incitement of Violence Throughout the GOP

Far North on the BC Coast, Indigenous Guardians Patrol Their Ancestral Wilds

DeSantis Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Is Part of a 60-Year-Old Segregationist Playbook

Why Do We Hate Women’s Voices?

The Super-Rich Are Already Plotting Their Escape From Trumpism

In America, Clean Water Is Becoming a Luxury

Trump Continues to Escalate His Dangerous Incitement

California Just Struck a Major Blow to Car Culture

Utah Youth Climate Activists Hold Wake for the Great Salt Lake

There’s No Reason Puerto Rico Had to Go Through This Again

Inside Massachusetts’ Family Separation Disaster

“Grossly Inflated, Objectively False, and Therefore Fraudulent and Illegal”

California Leaders Want to Compensate Descendants of Slavery. How Much Are They Willing to Pay?

Inside Anti-Abortion Groups’ Campaign to Sell Women on Unreliable Birth Control “Alternatives”

OCTOBER

Two Texas Men Are Accused of Killing a Migrant. Their Governor Blames Joe Biden.

Bitcoin’s Climate Impact Is Worse Than We Thought

5 Ways the Trumps Allegedly Tried to Conceal Financial Fraud

Ron DeSantis’ Relentless War on Trans Kids Hits a New Low

Joe Kent’s Forever War

Pathos and Panic: Russians Are Mobilized for an Undeclared War

A North Carolina Farmer Was Accused of Abusing His Workers. Then Big Tobacco Backed His Election.

Trump’s Big Social Media Deal Could Soon Collapse. So What Went Wrong?

Will the Next Farm Bill Be Climate Friendly? Depends on the Midterms.

Republicans Are Going All In to Convince You Crime Is Out of Control. They Don’t Have Any Proof.

Matt DePerno Sought to Foreclose on His Clients’ Property. Now He Wants to Be Michigan’s Top Lawyer.

7 Ways Roger Stone Was Connected to the January 6 Attack

How the Left Lost Faith in SCOTUS and Learned to Love Packing the Court

Washington Post Report Alleges Further Mayhem at Trump Media

“Love Is Blind” Promised to Ignore Looks – But Then Platformed Thin White People Anyway

JD Vance, Blake Masters, Peter Thiel, and Their Anti-Big Tech Hypocrisy

Is Ron Johnson Already Preparing for a Recount?

The Right-Wing Attack on Public Education Began in One Elite Illinois High School

Steve Bannon Is Getting Locked Up

Gas Drilling Is Wreaking Havoc on Animal Migration

“There Should Be Consequences for People Who Undermine Our Democracy and Peddle the Big Lie”

This Supreme Court Term Is All About White Grievance

How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy

MAGA Candidate Jim Marchant Says He Was a Highly Successful CEO. His Divorce Records Say Otherwise.

The GOP’s Plan for Attracting Young Voters Is the Same As Its Plan for Attracting Old Voters

How a Big Lie Activist Could Win a Deep Blue Seat in 2022’s Biggest Battleground

Democracy Is Hanging By a Thread in Wisconsin. Blame Extreme Voting Maps.

Watch Barack Obama Attack a GOP Senator for Eyeing Social Security Cuts

NOVEMBER

Yes, Trump and the Republican Party Own the Attack on Paul and Nancy Pelosi

Nevada’s MAGA Secretary of State Candidate Appears to Be Blatantly Ignoring Campaign Finance Laws

Brian Kemp Is a Different Kind of Threat to Democracy

The Internet Is Full of Predators. Omegle Lets You Meet Them.

On Crime, Fetterman and Oz Aren’t as Polar Opposite as You Might Think

Liz Cheney Just Endorsed Another Democrat

We Need to Talk About Herschel Walker’s Controversial Mental Health Diagnosis

To Understand Kari Lake, You Have to Understand Local TV News

Utah Sen. Mike Lee Betrayed the Constitution and Won Reelection

The GOP Latina Triple Threat That Wasn’t

The Sex Life of the Internet

Blake Masters and Peter Thiel Thought They Could Buy an Arizona Senate Seat. They Were Wrong.

It’s Official: The Democrats Held the Senate

How the Story of Soccer Became the Story of Everything

Katie Hobbs Defeats MAGA Star Kari Lake in Arizona

Democracy Was on the Ballot. It Won the Chance To Stay There.

Republicans Will End the January 6 Committee. They May Also Investigate It.

Georgia Is Limiting Early Voting – Partly Because of a Holiday Honoring Robert E. Lee

“Today, I Feel Gay. Today, I Feel Disabled,” Says FIFA’s President, Who Is Neither

Qatar Has Already Won the World Cup

America, It’s Time to Free the Pill

A White Father and Son Allegedly Tried to Kill a Black FedEx Driver. Did Cops Go Easy on Them?

“They Can’t Kill Us All”: These Scholars Lost Their Countries and Found Each Other

Let’s Give Thanks for Nature, Which Is Totally Inspirational

Herschel Walker Has a History of Standing Up For Violent Men

They Weren’t Rich But They Wanted to Invest. Then They Lost Everything on FTX.

How Did a State Known for Its War on Immigrants Approve In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students?

Herschel Walker Once Said He Was the Target of Racism. Now He Claims It Doesn’t Exist.

DECEMBER

This MAGA PAC Raised Nearly $2 Million Off the Trucker Protests. Where Did All the Money Go?

Donald Trump’s Lawyers Might Have Made a Huge Mistake

Walker, Warnock, and the Epic Battle for Georgia’s Soul

Dem Dysfunction, Tabloid Hellscapes, Crime: How New York Almost Went Red

Raphael Warnock Beats Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate Runoff

“An Abyss of Fear and Wild Lawlessness”

Kyrsten Sinema Is Leaving the Democratic Party

We Found the Guys Behind the Hunter Biden Porn That Elon Musk Won’t Shut Up About

US Diplomat Describes Moments With Brittney Griner on Homebound Flight

Home Front

A Black Cop Sided With Racial Justice Protesters. It Cost Him His Job.

Before Roe, a Baptist Preacher Performed Abortions in Secret. Now He’s Helping Texans.

Newly Revealed Texts Show Mark Meadows Is a Liar

Donald Trump’s NFT Sale Is the Weirdest Thing on Social Media Today

Cop15 Negotiators Are Barely Even Mentioning the Ocean

Mark Your Calendars: Monday Is “Trump Criminal Referral Day” for the Jan. 6 Panel

In Final Hearing, Jan. 6 Committee Is Set to Recommend Criminal Charges Against Trump

January 6 Report Presents a Devastating Case Against Trump

Four Big Takeaways from the Release of Trump’s Tax Information

Hate Leader Nick Fuentes Is Recruiting Incels

Read the Entire Final Report from the January 6 Committee Here

Witness to Paradise Lost: My Year in the Dying Amazon

Which Swamps Can Be Drained? That’s up to the Supreme Court.

Heroes and Monsters of 2022

The George Santos Apology Tour for Lying Doesn’t Explain the Biggest Mystery of All

The Problem With Cop Storylines in Children’s Media

What the January 6 Committee Missed

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