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Editorial director for teams and coverage, @MotherJones. Immigration, Latin America, sports, and serial commas. Dadfluencer. igordon@motherjones.com

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70,000 kids will show up alone at our border this year. What happens to them?

70,000 kids will show up alone at our border this year. What happens to them?

Officials have been stunned by a "surge" of unaccompanied children crossing into the United States.

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Inside Major League Baseball's Dominican Sweatshop System

Inside Major League Baseball's Dominican Sweatshop System

Teen shortstop Yewri Guillén died the day the Nationals were supposed to ship him to America. Has MLB learned…

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The fierce life and too-soon death of my unlikely Cuban friends

The fierce life and too-soon death of my unlikely Cuban friends

Saying goodbye to Carlos and Luis Enrique as the diplomatic freeze comes to an end.

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This may be the most radical idea in all of professional sports

This may be the most radical idea in all of professional sports

It's a foggy February morning in San Francisco, and a classroom full of midcareer MBA students at the Presidi…

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The amazing story of Rio's all-refugee Olympic team

The amazing story of Rio's all-refugee Olympic team

Six nights a week, Popole Misenga travels by bus from a favela in the northern reaches of Rio de Janeiro to a…

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The Crazy Story of the Professor Who Came to Stay—and Wouldn’t Leave

The Crazy Story of the Professor Who Came to Stay—and Wouldn’t Leave

It’s not easy to evict someone in California. Usually that’s a good thing.

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The Cover Stories That Put Mother Jones on the Map

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By Ian Gordon Verified
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For our 50th anniversary issue, we did something that we try every once in a while: We produced two covers, one for subscribers and one for the newsstand. The idea behind a split cover is to give different types of readers different experiences. In this case, subscribers got a rich, celebratory collage from artist Max-o-matic, stitching together some of the most iconic and aberrant figures of our half-century in print.
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The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

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By Melissa Lewis Verified, Ian Gordon Verified
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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here.
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Inside the Hell of Alligator Alcatraz

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By Laura Morel Verified, Ian Gordon Verified
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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here.
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