Stephanie Mencimer is a senior reporter at Mother Jones, an advisory board member at the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the author of Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue. She was a Washington Monthly editor from 2000 to 2002.
What’s Killing the White Working Class?
The GOP continues to supply more of the policies that are destroying its base.
Was I Too Hard on the Mormons? Nope.
In 2001, I argued they were a regressive force in American life. Despite their opposition to Donald Trump, they still are.
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?