Blog Profile / Mother Jones
| URL : | http://www.motherjones.com | |
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| Filed Under: | News / Independent News | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4544 | |
| Posts / Week: | 17 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl)
Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum about important plot points, Twitter is abuzz with spoilers. Fortunately, there's Twivo, a new program that allows Twitter users to censor their feeds from mentioning a certain TV show (and its characters) for a set time period. Show More Summary
America's 10 Worst Prisons: Pelican Bay
Lush surroundings, which those in solitary may never see California Department of Corrections Part 6 in an 11-part series. #1: ADX (federal supermax) #2: Polunsky Unit (TX Death Row) #3: Tent City Jail (Phoenix) #4: Orleans Parish Prison #5:...Show More Summary
Our Arms Race of One
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under arms. Show More Summary
Tamerlan Tsarnaev Isn't the First Killer to Be Refused a Grave
On Monday, Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy announced he would not grant a permit for the burial of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, citing his authority as "chief conservator of the peace within the city." Instead, Healy...Show More Summary
America's 10 Worst Prisons: [5] LA County
The much-feared Twin Towers. Wikipedia Commons Part 5 in an 11-part series. #1: ADX (federal supermax) #2: Polunsky Unit (TX Death Row) #3: Tent City Jail (Phoenix) #4: Orleans Parish Prison Read the complete introduction to our 10 Worst Prisons project. Serving time in prison is not supposed to be pleasant. Show More Summary
Congress Helps Air Travelers, Ignores Victims of Rape and Domestic Violence
In March, shortly after President Barack Obama signed an extension of the Violence Against Women Act into law, the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women sent an email to the hundreds of non-profits and government agencies around the country that rely on its annual grants. Show More Summary
The Remarkable Renaissance of John Kasich
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, had hit rock bottom. It was March 2011, and Kasich was about to sign Senate Bill 5, the controversial anti-union legislation that curbed bargaining rights for cops, firefighters, teachers, and other public employees. Show More Summary
Which 20 Lipsticks Contain the Most Lead?
Many women say lipstick makes them feel beautiful and confident. But could it also be making them sick? In a small study out last week, researchers asked a group of teenage girls to hand over their lipsticks and glosses and tested them for toxic metals, including lead and cadmium. Show More Summary
The 10 Worst Prisons in America: OPP
Video still of an an OPP resident handling a loaded gun NOLA.com Part 4 of an 11-part series. #1: ADX (federal supermax) #2: Polunsky Unit (TX Death Row) #3: Tent City Jail (Phoenix) #4: Orleans Parish Prison Read the complete introduction to our 10 Worst Prisons project. Serving time in prison is not supposed to be pleasant. Show More Summary
Charts: Why You're in Deep Trouble If You Can't Afford a Lawyer
In January 1962, a man sitting in a Florida prison cell scrawled a note to the United States Supreme Court. He'd been charged with breaking into a pool hall, stealing some Cokes, beer, and change, and was handed a five-year sentence after he represented himself because he couldn't pay for a lawyer. Show More Summary
Photos: Stark Scenes From the Guantanamo Hunger Strike
For more than two weeks, 100 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have been on hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison and their indefinite confinement. First denied and downplayed by the military, the strike has now become a full-blown emergency, as the Huffington Post's Ryan J. Show More Summary
Scientists Use DNA From Poop to Track Rare Tigers
Update: Kathmandu-based reporter Kashish Das Shrestha was also along on this reporting venture, and has published his story on the Tiger Genome Project on his website, Sustainable Nepal. Bengal tigers can be elusive. They're classified...Show More Summary
The 10 Worst Prisons in America: Tent City
Tent City is Joe Arapaio's baby Jack Kurtz/ZumaPress.com Part 3 in an 11-part series. #1: ADX (federal supermax) #2: Polunsky Unit (TX Death Row) #3: Tent City Jail (Phoenix) Read the complete introduction to our 10 Worst Prisons project. Serving time in prison is not supposed to be pleasant. Show More Summary
What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
This story first appeared in The Atlantic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill's world. Show More Summary
How Shutterfly and Other Social Sites Leave Your Kids Vulnerable to Hackers
This spring, with millions of kids across the United States participating in sports leagues and other activities, coaches and harried parents are turning to social sharing websites to keep everything running smoothly. The most popular option is Shutterfly, which boasted around 5 million visitors per month as of March 2012. Show More Summary
Lethal Battlefield Robots: Sci-Fi or The Future of War?
"We are not talking about things that will look like an army of Terminators," Steve Goose, a spokesman for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, tells me. "Stealth bombers and armored vehicles—not Terminators." Goose, the director of Human...Show More Summary
This Is Why Michael Bay Gets To Keep On Making Movies
Michael Bay is one of the most intensely reviled filmmakers of the past 30 years. "The crassest hack in the business," Rolling Stone's Peter Travers—perhaps Bay's least generous critic—said of the director after watching 2003's Bad Boys II. Show More Summary
WATCH: How to Get Your Sequester Funds Back by Holding Up Airline Passengers [Fiore Cartoon]
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.
Fracking Pennsylvania to Death
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. Show More Summary
America's Fertilizer Keeps Blowing Up. It Doesn't Have To
It didn't take long in the aftermath of April's explosion in West, Texas, for the problems with the fertilizer industry to come into focus. Inspections are virtually non-existent; regulatory agencies don't talk to each other; and there's...Show More Summary