Mother Jones - May 01, 2018

DEPARTMENTS

5 to our readers

7 outfront

Run everywhere.

Trial by Skype

Private prisons get a

Trump bump.

Will Stacey Abrams

be America’s first black

female governor?

Unfare

61 mixed media

Dribble and shout.

Raising hell with the

US poet laureate

The urban voice

of Native lit

The art of war

70 food + health

Modern Family law

How a trendy alt-

milk could save Iowa

COVER: DOUG CHAYKA; ABOVE: EDMON DE HARO

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June

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FEATURES

22 Cloak and Data
BY ANDY KROLL
The story behind Cambridge
Analytica’s rise and fall
plu: Weapons of Mass
Disruption BY TERRELL
JERMAINE STARR
From Russia, With
Love for the nra
BY DENISE CLIFTON AND
MARK FOLLMAN

36 Hidden Figures

BY ARI BERMAN

The 2020 census is

underfunded, behind schedule,

and increasingly politicized.

Millions of Americans likely

won’t be counted—and many

of them are afraid to be.

44 Bottled Up
BY STEPHANIE MENCIMER
Drinking may have given
me cancer. The alcohol
industry worked hard to
downplay the risk.

54 The Best Viral News
You’ll Ever Read
BY MARYN McKENNA
Antibiotic resistance is
one of the scariest threats
today—but a forgotten
remedy may save us yet.

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