Mother Jones - May/June 2024

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Three-Ring Circus: In this issue, Mother Jones gives you everything you need to know about the history—and the stakes—of candidates who challenge our two-party system. In “Spoiler Alert,” Washington Bureau Chief David Corn writes that third-party candidates never win national elections but can decide the future. A visual timeline lays out the history of righteous outrage and electoral opportunism. Readers sound off on the perils and promise of third parties. And national correspondent Tim Murphy tracks how Trump’s rise gave the Libertarian Party unprecedented success—before the fallout. Lest you fear that all is hopeless, our package notes how America can dare to upgrade how we choose our leaders. Voting rights correspondent Ari Berman reports on how the Founding Fathers lit the fuse on the crisis tearing the nation apart. Reporter Abby Vesoulis details how Ruben Gallego’s battle against Kari Lake in Arizona could decide the fate of the Senate—and democracy itself. And writer Carrie Arnold reveals how dialysis clinics are making a killing off deathly ill patients.

TASK FORCE - GUN FOR HIRE

The operative who invented Swift Boating could put Trump on course for reelection.

7 mins

JERSEY BOYS - AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Young voters are powering Rep. Andy Kim's challenge to Trenton's powers that be.

5 mins

OH CRAP - SLUDGE REPORT

Can Maine lead the way to a future without forever chemicals?

5 mins

THE DEMOCRACY BOMB

A day ahead of the third anniversary of January 6, President Joe Biden traveled to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania-where George Washington encamped during the Revolutionary War-before delivering what he described as a \"deadly serious\" speech framing the stakes of the 2024 election.

10+ mins

Spoiler Alert

Third-party candidates never win national elections, but they can still have serious consequences.

10 mins

Become Ungovernable

The spectacular implosion of the Libertarian Party

10+ mins

Blood Money

How dialysis clinics are making a killing off deathly ill patients.

10+ mins

FIGHTING CHANCE

RUBEN GALLEGO'S BATTLE AGAINST KARI LAKE COULD DECIDE THE FATE OF THE SENATE-AND DEMOCRACY ITSELF. NO PRESSURE.

10+ mins

WELL PLAYED

One man’s mission to make gaming a little less white

9 mins

ECONUNDRUMS - CHATBOT QUACKS

AI was supposed to fix online health misinformation. Instead, it's making it worse.

4 mins

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