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- Cover Story
We’re Not Crazy
Maaaybe a wild-haired socialist from Vermont won’t win the presidency. But Bernie Sanders just might change politics for good.
How the War on Women Was Won
Abortion clinics are closing at a rate of 1.5 a week. Welcome back to a pre-Roe world.
“Sorry, I’m Not Taking This Test”
The average US student takes more than 113 standardized tests before graduation. This spring, Kiana Hernandez became one of a growing number of kids saying: Enough.
Cuba Confidential
Inside the secret, back-channel negotiations that transformed America’s relationship with Cuba.
MIAMI NICE: Are Florida’s Power Brokers Mellowing on Cuba?
PHOTOS: 120 Years of Rocky US-Cuba Relations in Pictures.
Heart of Agave
How a renegade optometrist is defying Big Ag and saving Mexican farms—with the finest tequila you’ll ever taste.
- OUTFRONT
To Collect and Serve
Officers of the fleece
The Nuclear Option
Obama’s nuclear makeover
Head Games
WTF is chessboxing?
Good Breeding?
Can GMOs end animal cruelty?
When Ads Attack
Dark money goes digital.
The Hidden Costs of Dirty Energy
Why costly energy looks so cheap
- MIXED MEDIA
Ready Author One
Sci-fi novelist Ernie Cline on growing up geek
Lost and Found
Cooking while black with Toni Tipton-Martin
Legend of the Falls
Capturing Evel Knievel on film
The Comic Gene
Meet Gene Luen Yang, a master of comics and code.
- FOOD + HEALTH
Chilling Effect
How our AC obsession is heating the planet
Come at King Corn
Taking King Corn to court
Contributors
1 Jack Hitt (“To Collect and Serve“) is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine and This American Life.
Four decades from now, Tim Murphy hopes his writing as a 28-year-old will hold up at least as well as Bernie Sanders’ has (“‘We’re Not Crazy'”).
2 Molly Redden logged 300 miles and ran over one rattlesnake while driving between the country’s dwindling abortion clinics (“How the War on Women Was Won”); 3 Donna Ferrato’s work has been included in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Former MoJo education reporter 4 Kristina Rizga (“‘Sorry, I’m Not Taking This Test'”) lives in San Francisco; her book, Mission High, was released in August.
Peter Kornbluh directs the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, and William M. LeoGrande is a professor of government at American University; their article (“Cuba Confidential“) is adapted from a forthcoming epilogue to their book, Back Channel to Cuba.
5 Ted Genoways (“Heart of Agave”) is the author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.
6 Gary Taxali is a Canadian illustrator (“Chilling Effect,” and “Come at King Corn”) whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, and Rolling Stone.
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