The Mother Jones Podcast
Summary: 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.
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Podcasts:
The key to covering the 2020 election? More women.
Democratic presidential hopeful Julián Castro spoke with Mother Jones for an exclusive interview at one of his favorite restaurants in San Antonio. He told our own immigration reporter Fernanda Echavarri that he’s still preaching patience—even though he’s recently been polling at around 1 percent in a crowded field.
The Trump administration wants to add a question to the US census that asks about a respondent’s citizenship. On this week’s show, host Jamilah King talks about this with the ACLU’s Dale Ho, who recently argued against the government—and this citizenship question—in front of the Supreme Court, and Mother Jones’s voting rights guru Ari Berman.
This week, we unravel the mystery around the strange, swampy saga of President Donald Trump and a Florida spa entrepreneur.
Alabama Senator Doug Jones talks about what he’s learned since taking office and how the Dems can turn the tide in the South.
On today's special edition of the show, host Jamilah King talks to Washington D.C. bureau chief David Corn about the ways in which Mueller has demonstrated the Trump-Russia scandal is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory, and how, even if Trump has not committed crimes, the president is guilty of many serious misdeeds and transgressions.
For this week’s 20th anniversary of the Columbine attack, we ask: What's changed in the last two decades in the way the media covers mass shootings? And what has changed in our resolve to finally do something about this crisis?
Today, we look at how one border town banded together to fight hate—and won. Host Jamilah King sits down with journalist Eric Reidy to talk about what went down in Arivaca, Arizona, and how the rest of America can learn from the struggle.
Can an openly gay war-veteran millennial become president in 2020? Pete Buttigieg, aka Mayor Pete, says he knows how to beat Trump.
We all craved a clear resolution after special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr over the weekend—no such luck. Jamilah King hosts David Corn, Washington, DC, Bureau Chief, and national security and foreign influence reporter, Dan Friedman this week, to help sort things out in the post-Mueller investigation world.
A special breaking news edition of the Mother Jones Podcast: Mueller is done. Cue Trump's rage.
In a horrific attack crafted by the internet and for the internet, the Christchurch shooter exploited giant tech companies—who have proven themselves unable or unwilling to stop the spread of hate speech on their platforms. Host Jamilah King chats with Mother Jones reporters Ali Breland and Pema Levy about social media platforms and how they operate. And National Affairs Editor, Mark Follman, explains how this kind of extreme violence is fueled.
Host Jamilah King chats with David Wallace Wells, the author of a vividly distressing new book about the all-encompassing perils of climate change.
This week, we take a deeper look at the real crisis at the border. Host Jamilah King talks to Mother Jones immigration reporter Fernanda Echavarri about her most recent dispatches.
On today's show, we hear the results of a nine-month Mother Jones investigation into how rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid users into a deadly cycle.
