Mother Jones - May/June 2022

In this issue

Welcome to Private Equity City, where billionaires have gutted businesses and whole industries for profit. Reporters Hannah Levintova and Ian Gordon assemble an array of stories that reveal all in “Smash-and-Grab Economy,” and a local delivery co-op takes on Big Tech in “Door Dashed.” Can hopeful books tame climate anxiety? Jason Plautz answers it in “Once Upon a Planet” by exploring mental health research aimed at helping kids. In “Lessons Not Learned,” Mark Follman takes a page from his new book, “Trigger Points,” to explain how behavioral threat assessment can stop the next school massacre. The photography by Devin Yalkin heightens Jasper Craven’s investigation into the lives and traumas of cadets at Valley Forge Military Academy in “A Few Good Men,” discovering that the school gets its promise—to break down cadets and build them back better only half right. Kiera Butler takes the word “endemic” for a spin in “Mother Tongue,” explaining how the scientific label has been used to mask political choices. Read these stories and more in the latest issue and find more at MotherJones.com.

Their Fight Is Our Fight

The truth is kryptonite for authoritarians and oligarchs-in Russia, and here at home.

4 mins

THE COPPER RUSH

Will the green economy wreck sacred Native lands?

7 mins

Lessons Not Learned

How the Oxford school massacre could have been stopped

7 mins

TINY'S HOUSE

An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness

6 mins

The Smash-and-Grab Economy

Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.

10+ mins

Flipped Off

Real estate investors had a great plan to cash in on pandemic-era Brooklyn. But tenants are fighting back.

10+ mins

Pipe Dreams

How to cash in on federal climate tax credits...by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.

8 mins

No Quick Fix

Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.

4 mins

Mobilizing Homes

How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm

4 mins

Wild Goose Chase

Elizabeth Warren's years-long battle to rein in private equity has been a lonely one.

1 min

Capitol Gains

Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

10 mins

A Few Good Men

Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.

10+ mins

Dance Dance Revolution

Calvin Royal III wants to help "break ballet out of the 18th century."

10+ mins

MOTHER TONGUE

How the scientific label has masked political choices

3 mins

ONCE UPON A PLANET

Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?

4 mins

Door Dashed

Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?

3 mins

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