))
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.
On MoJo: 5 Questions, listen in as Mother Jones reporters gab with authors, artists, scientists, and more. Each week we feature interesting thinkers answering smart, fearless questions. Look for the MoJo: 5 Questions podcast in the iTunes Music Store.
A
A Movie & an Argument | Mother Jones
1
A Movie & an Argument | Mother Jones
Mother Jones and Think Progress
Critics Alyssa Rosenberg (ThinkProgress) and Asawin "Swin" Suebsaeng (Mother Jones) host a weekly chat on the latest movies, TV shows, and cultural nonsense. (Politics also usually finds it way into the conversation.) Alyssa is equally devoted to the Star Wars expanded universe and Barbara Stanwyck, to Better Off Ted and Deadwood. Swin is a lover of childish dark humor, Yuengling, and movies with high body counts. We'll be regularly featuring guests on this program, and taking listeners' que ...
T
The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris Jones
1
The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris Jones
Loyal Books
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America.
Things have been a bit quiet around these parts lately, huh? After a few months bringing you some of our best feature investigations read aloud, in partnership with Audm, we’re going through some behind-the-scenes newsroom changes that will impact how we best serve you, our listener. We’re going to be taking some more time, off-air, to re-tool and …
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
14:02
14:02
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
14:02
We bet you’ve heard one phrase more and more this year than ever before: Critical Race Theory. It’s an obsession on Fox News, and it’s the topic, along with anti-mask protests, raging at school board hearings across the country—a new frontier in a roiling culture war. But what is Critical Race Theory? And how did it come to be used to whip up a new…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Are These Black Leaders on the Cusp of a New National Movement?
55:07
55:07
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
55:07
With everything going on these days—we’ll spare you the list of existential crises we’re currently living through—now seems like the perfect time to hear from two leaders who have a revolutionary vision of what this country could be. Last week, in a special livestream event, Mother Jones reporter and columnist Nathalie Baptiste spoke to two fascina…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South
23:27
23:27
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
23:27
A week ago, thousands of people turned out for Women's March rallies across the country, galvanized by Texas' recent six-week abortion ban and the very real fear that Roe v. Wade could soon be overturned, as challenges to the Texas law and another law in Mississippi wend their way to the Supreme Court and its 6-3 conservative majority. But while th…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Ammon Bundy Is Running to Be Idaho’s Next Governor
1:00:16
1:00:16
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
1:00:16
Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has been following Ammon Bundy for years. He's the guy you'll remember who became a kind of folk hero on the far-right after he joined his father, rancher Cliven Bundy, in leading an armed standoff against the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada in 2014. Two years later, Ammon led the armed takeover of the M…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID
39:47
39:47
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
39:47
As the Delta variant upended hope of returning to normal this summer, Mother Jones reporter Edwin Rios published a deeply reported story on Flint, Michigan, recounting how residents of this predominantly Black city have battled COVID-19 in spite of government distrust, neglect, and environmental catastrophe. But the pandemic isn’t Flint’s first cri…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Afghan Refugee Crisis Has Only Just Begun
52:09
52:09
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
52:09
Towards the end of 2020, Mother Jones’s editorial director Ian Gordon wrote a deeply reported story about how then-President Donald Trump took a broken asylum system and turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty. America’s system for processing refugees and asylum seekers was effectively dead, he discovered, and the myth of national decency die…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema
50:33
50:33
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
50:33
Every time you read the news lately, there she is: in conversations about bipartisanship, the infrastructure deal, the filibuster, even the fate of Joe Biden's presidency itself. But who is Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona? And what does she want to accomplish with her outsized influence on the passage of basically any law through the Senate, with its raz…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big Lie
41:50
41:50
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
41:50
Jake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politicians touting the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. But when he’s not in front of the camera, Tapper enjoys blurring the lines between fact and…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul
56:58
56:58
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
56:58
Sergey Grishin is a well-connected, billionaire mogul. Last August, he made headlines when he sold his lavish estate to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Grishin’s multiple US-based businesses include a social media company in California with more than 300 million Instagram followers, called 421 Media. But what those followers probably don’t know is …
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Culture Wars
31:09
31:09
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
31:09
Everywhere you turned in the aftermath of the 2020 election, someone was arguing a hard line on cultural issues as an explanation for the outcome. The point was made by different commentators of at least outwardly different political persuasions, with different code words and different bogeys—feminists, socialists, wokeness. However they might have…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of Doonesbury
28:16
28:16
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
28:16
For five decades, Garry Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important—and entertaining—comic strips in American history: Doonesbury. He started the strip in October, 1970 as a student at Yale. With its sharp-witted look at American politics and American life, it quickly became a phenomenon, eventually appearing in over 1,000 newspapers…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?
26:16
26:16
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
26:16
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who has spent the last two decades pounding out bestselling accounts of American presidents such as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and George H.W. Bush. In June 2019, Joe Biden invited Meacham to Newark, Delaware, for a conversation about the biographer’s recent volume, The Soul of America: The …
After three years of weekly episodes—that’s 181 shows, if you’re counting—the Mother Jones Podcast team has decided to switch things up for the next couple of months, as we, like you, emerge from a year that has thrown up enormous challenges, journalistically, politically, and personally. It’s time for Summer! We’ve always strived to bring you the …
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Insurrection Was a Giant Recruitment Exercise for Extremists
28:28
28:28
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
28:28
The deadly insurrection at the US Capitol wasn’t the start of something, nor was it the end. What happened on January 6 had been planned for weeks, and the ideology behind it, brewing for years. That day’s chaos was the moment in which a dangerous mix of far-right factions came together in a way that won’t be disentangled anytime soon. Even now, ne…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold
32:23
32:23
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
32:23
As we approach the five-month anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party has made one thing clear: They want to forget all about it—holding Trump and his big lie closer than ever. In the House, the party just kicked out a top leader, Rep. Liz Cheney, for calling out Trump’s lies and authoritarianism. Over in the Senate, Republi…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Leaked Video: How a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections
19:33
19:33
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
19:33
The right-wing dark money group Heritage Action for America claims to be the mastermind behind the recent fire hose of state-level voter suppression laws, a new Mother Jones scoop reveals. Mother Jones voting rights reporter Ari Berman joins Jamilah King to walk through the explosive video he obtained of Jessica Anderson, the head of Heritage Actio…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
“We’re Torn Apart”: Inside India’s Worsening COVID Nightmare
24:57
24:57
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
24:57
A Mother Jones investigation has found that hundreds of visa workers are stuck in India with no way to get back to their families in the United States. India is the in the midst of a shocking COVID-19 crisis. Health officials are reporting approximately 400,000 new cases a day. Hospitals are experiencing shortages of beds, oxygen, and medical suppl…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
“Queen Sugar” Author Natalie Baszile: Black Farmers Can Help Save the Planet
26:26
26:26
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
26:26
Natalie Baszile knew she was onto something when she got the call from Oprah’s people. A novelist and food justice activist, Baszile had been working for years on a semi-autobiographical novel about a Los Angeles-based Black woman who is unexpectedly faced with reviving an inherited family farm in Louisiana. The book became “Queen Sugar,” was publi…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land
26:01
26:01
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
26:01
Agriculture was once a major source of wealth among the Black middle class in America. But over the course of a century, Black-owned farmland, and the corresponding wealth, has diminished almost to the point of near extinction; only 1.7 percent of farms were owned by Black farmers in 2017. The story of how that happened–from sharecropping, to anti-…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Oscar-Nominated Writers of Judas and the Black Messiah Make History
16:27
16:27
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
16:27
Judas and the Black Messiah, a ground-breaking film about the life of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, has been hailed as one of the best films of the year. The film is up for five Oscars, including Best Picture. It’s a historic haul for a movie made by an all-Black team of producers. It’s also a notable and somewhat unexpected achievement for Ke…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Derek Chauvin Is Guilty. The Fight for Real Justice Is Far From Over.
13:36
13:36
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
13:36
Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin delivered its verdict: guilty on all three counts in the killing of George Floyd. The 12 jurors—six of whom are white, four Black, and two multiracial—heard three weeks of testimony and deliberated for about 10 hours. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was charged with second…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
How America's Super-Rich Tax Evaders Are Hurting Everyone
27:14
27:14
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
27:14
Money. You’re probably thinking a lot about it these days. From a global pandemic that’s tanked the global economy, to President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill, to workers once again trying (and failing) to unionize at Amazon, who gets what and how is the recurring theme of so many important social and political debates right now. Mich…
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
The Hidden Influence of Lady Bird Johnson
34:38
34:38
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
34:38
Lady Bird Johnson always fit the mold of a certain old-fashioned, stereotypical presidential wife: self-effacing, devoted to her generally unfaithful domineering husband, not particularly chic, and, being a traditional first lady one who needed a public cause, and found hers it in planting lots of flowers near highways. They called it at the time, …
T
The Mother Jones Podcast
1
Hope and Fear: The Dangerous New COVID Phase, Explained
22:24
22:24
Daha Sonra Çal
Daha Sonra Çal
Listeler
Beğen
Beğenildi
22:24
Earlier this week, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky went off-script during a news conference to issue an emotional warning: a fourth coronavirus surge could be on its way. She described a “recurring feeling I have of impending doom,” saying that while there was “so much to look forward to,” the country was entering a dangerous new phase. “I’m sca…
