Blog Profile / Mother Jones
| URL : | http://www.motherjones.com | |
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| Filed Under: | News / Independent News | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4621 | |
| Posts / Week: | 17 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Occupy Sandy, Once Welcomed, Now Questioned
An incomplete section of the destroyed Rockaway Beach boardwalk, May 31, 2013. squirrel83/Flickr Nearly eight months after Hurricane Sandy destroyed almost three miles of historic boardwalk along the Rockaway peninsula at the southern...Show More Summary
Drone Pilots: "Overpaid, Underworked, and Bored"
Mike, an MQ-9 Reaper pilot, sips coffee on his 20-minute morning commute to Holloman Air Force Base outside Alamogordo, New Mexico. Drones: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Always Afraid to Ask Holder: Obama Can Use Lethal...Show More Summary
Charts: Here's How Often Google and Facebook Say Yes to Government Snoops
Edward Snowden's leaks have prompted many questions about government surveillance activity in the US, including this one: How often do tech firms turn over user data to the feds? In recent years, companies including Google, Microsoft,...Show More Summary
The 5 Uncontrollable Urges of the US Security State
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. As happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying and just how far we've come in the building of a surveillance state...Show More Summary
Pardon Our Humblebragging
Ah, editor's notes. They generally fall into three categories. There's the sort that we usually pen, where the editors feel moved to mock or inveigh about some current buffoonery or outrage. Then there's the "here's what's in the issue"...Show More Summary
Which Trader Joe's Foods Are Healthiest?
I've fessed up before about my takeout addiction, and now I'm ready to come clean about another dinner habit: Trader Joe's frozen meals. Even when I have plenty of time to cook a real dinner, I sometimes opt for a bowl of veggie gyozas or a chicken burrito instead. Show More Summary
New Film Puts Backup Singers in the Spotlight—for Once
You hear their "oohs" and "aahs" on tons of popular songs, but for most of their careers they are back from the spotlight, their voices secondary to the famous ones captivating the crowd. In the new documentary 20 Feet From Stardom,Show More Summary
Gagged by Big Ag
Shawn Lyons was dead to rights —and he knew it. More than a month had passed since People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had released a video of savage mistreatment at the MowMar Farms hog confinement facility where he worked as an entry-level herdsman in the breeding room. Show More Summary
Timeline: Big Ag's Campaign to Shut Up Its Critics
Mar. 1990 Kansas adopts the country's first ag gag law, making it illegal for a person to enter a private animal facility to take pictures or video if they have "intent to damage the enterprise conducted at the facility." Nov. 1990 Washington...Show More Summary
You Won't Believe What Pork Producers Do to Pregnant Pigs
Illustration: Rick Sealock Like a lot of food-obsessed people, I love pork. The chef David Chang, whose Manhattan restaurant Momofuku is practically a porcine temple, once declared the pig a "mystical, magical animal." In addition to...Show More Summary
Your Hormones Tell You How To Vote
Today we're witnessing an explosion of research on the biological factors that may underlie our political views. This new body of science is, slowly but surely, upending the old "I vote Democrat because Mom and Dad did" view of where...Show More Summary
WATCH: Snuggly the DOJ Security Bear Explains Why PRISM Isn't a Problem
Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and has a website featuring his work.
Summer in the Far North
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. One summer some years ago, on a peninsula jutting off another peninsula off the west coast of Iceland, I lived among strangers and birds. The birds were mostly new species I got to...Show More Summary
FEMA Report: Climate Change Could Increase Areas At Risk of Flood by 45%
Clean-up in Breezy Point following Hurricane Sandy, November 5, 2012. Bryan Smith/ZUMAPRESS.com Rising seas and increasingly severe weather are expected to increase the areas of the US at risk of floods by up to 45 percent by 2100, according to a first-of-its-kind report released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday. Show More Summary
How Climate Change Makes Wildfires Worse
Last year, Colorado suffered from a record-breaking wildfire season: More than 4000 fires resulted in six deaths, the destruction of 648 buildings, and a half a billion dollars in property damage. Still reeling, Coloradans are once again fleeing in their thousands from a string of drought-fueled fires. Show More Summary
Secret Money Is Now Swaying State Judicial Elections
The "banjo ad" supporting North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby. Sam Ervin IV must have been feeling pretty good about his chances of winning a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court last fall. He had name recognition—his...Show More Summary
What Really Drives a Whistleblower Like Edward Snowden?
After Edward Snowden went public as the man who leaked the NSA's secret surveillance system to the country via a 12 minute video interview with the Guardian, questions immediately sprang up around his motivation for whistleblowing, his...Show More Summary
Reworking New York's Flood Map Post-Hurricane Sandy
This story first appeared on the ProPublica website. With warmer weather arriving, long-shuttered train lines reopening and a revamped boardwalk, people are flocking back to the beachfront on the Rockaways in Queens. And they're not just coming to lie on the sand. Show More Summary
Spot What's Wrong With Rand Paul's NSA Fundraising Email
That didn't take long. Rand Paul is exploiting the NSA controversy for fundraising. On Sunday, the Republican senator from Kentucky, a libertarian firebrand, declared he planned to file a class action lawsuit against the Obama administration,...Show More Summary
TV Weathermen and Climate Scientists Kiss and Make Up
Weather forecasters and climate scientists aren't exactly known for being the best of buds. Several surveys have shown that among members of the American Meteorological Society — and especially among professional TV forecasters — there’s a substantial degree of global warming skepticism. Show More Summary