Stephanie Mencimer is a reporter in Mother Jones‘ Washington bureau. Her first book, Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue, was published in 2006. She has worked as an investigative reporter at the Washington Post, a senior writer at the Washington City Paper, and a staff writer for Legal Times. She has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, Legal Affairs, The American Prospect, Mother Jones and other national publications. In 2004, she was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the public service category for her Washington Monthly article on medical malpractice politics. In 2000 Mencimer won the Harry Chapin media award for reporting on hunger and poverty. She was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 2000 to 2002.
Democrats Need More Than Demographic Change to Win
Why the GOP’s inevitable demographic demise may not be so inevitable.
John Roberts: Boy In The Bubble
The chief justice has made a career of undoing progress on civil rights and ignoring the consequences.
It’s Time for Some Blunt Talk on Weed
As the marijuana movement races ahead, are we ignoring the drug’s real risks?
Republicans vs. Democracy
Why the war on minority voting rights is about to get even worse.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Babysitters
Gender discrimination in the workplace begins earlier than you think.
