Mac McClelland

Mac McClelland

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Mac is Mother Jones' human rights reporter, writer of The Rights Stuff, and the author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma's Never-Ending War.

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Cholera and Conspiracy Theories in Haiti
Thu Nov. 18, 2010 11:20 AM PST

Aung San Suu Kyi's Release "Just the Beginning"
Mon Nov. 15, 2010 11:00 AM PST

Newsflash: Burma's Junta Winning Rigged Elections
Mon Nov. 8, 2010 11:07 AM PST

Burma's Checklist for a Bogus Election
Fri Nov. 5, 2010 1:50 PM PDT

Tomas Puts Haiti on Red Alert
Tue Nov. 2, 2010 3:06 PM PDT

Visitors to California Prisons, Beware
Thu Oct. 28, 2010 1:32 PM PDT

"I Feared for All Our Lives"
Mon Oct. 25, 2010 12:32 PM PDT

Keeping Tabs on Cholera in Haiti
Mon Oct. 25, 2010 11:18 AM PDT

UN Peacekeeper to Photographer: Shoot Me and I'll Shoot You
Thu Oct. 21, 2010 11:21 AM PDT

Wanna Increase Your Burma Awareness?
Thu Oct. 14, 2010 9:21 AM PDT

BP Cans Cleanup Workers As More Oil Washes Up
Wed Oct. 13, 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Haiti: The Price of Nothing
Mon Oct. 11, 2010 7:24 PM PDT

Welcome to Haiti!
Thu Sep. 16, 2010 11:06 AM PDT

Found: BP's Missing Oil
Thu Aug. 26, 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Sticking a Happy Face on Katrina
Thu Aug. 26, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

Feds Investigate Transocean's Possible Ties to Burmese Drug Clan
Thu Aug. 19, 2010 12:33 PM PDT

"The Goal Is Not to Let It Blow Up": A Tour of BP's Relief Rig
Wed Aug. 18, 2010 12:32 PM PDT

BP Spill: Catastrophe, Sure. Disaster? Nah.
Fri Aug. 13, 2010 9:09 AM PDT

BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers
Fri Aug. 6, 2010 10:18 AM PDT

What's Next for Same-Sex Marriage Rights?
Fri Aug. 6, 2010 1:00 AM PDT

Is BP Making Louisiana Charities Beg?
Wed Aug. 4, 2010 9:00 AM PDT

"All I Wanted Was to See Happy Faces"
Thu Jul. 29, 2010 5:36 PM PDT

Mainstream Media Helps BP Pretend There's No Oil
Wed Jul. 28, 2010 11:07 AM PDT

BP Cleanup Workers Gone Wild
Thu Jul. 22, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

Robbing New Orleans to Pay for BP's Spill
Wed Jul. 14, 2010 9:38 PM PDT

How Many Oil-Spill Victims Is BP Cutting Compensation To?
Tue Jul. 13, 2010 11:06 AM PDT

Fun With Fact-Checking for Condoleezza Rice
Thu Jul. 8, 2010 1:53 PM PDT

Tar Balls Glow Orange Under UV Light
Wed Jul. 7, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

Uniformed Cops on BP Payroll
Tue Jun. 29, 2010 3:03 AM PDT

Depression, Abuse, Suicide: Post-Spill Trauma
Fri Jun. 25, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

La. Police Doing BP's Dirty Work [Video]
Tue Jun. 22, 2010 3:30 AM PDT

Notes From a Pro-Drilling Tea Party Rally in Louisiana
Mon Jun. 21, 2010 9:39 AM PDT

More Dirty Details From My BP Mole
Wed Jun. 16, 2010 3:02 AM PDT

Inside Oil-Spill Pelican Rehab [Photos]
Tue Jun. 15, 2010 1:30 PM PDT

"We Don't Need This on Camera"
Fri Jun. 11, 2010 8:55 AM PDT

Official Government Stats = BP Spin
Wed Jun. 9, 2010 10:23 PM PDT

BP, Drugs, and Immigration Raids in the Gulf
Sun Jun. 6, 2010 5:30 PM PDT

MoJo on PBS's Need to Know
Fri Jun. 4, 2010 9:06 PM PDT

MoJo's BP Mole
Thu Jun. 3, 2010 7:56 PM PDT

"Ignore Her": BP's Press Lockdown
Tue Jun. 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT

Map of the Day: Bestiality-Friendly States
Wed May. 19, 2010 7:21 PM PDT

Thailand on the Brink
Tue May. 18, 2010 8:54 PM PDT

New Orleans Notebook: Disaster Tourism
Tue May. 18, 2010 9:50 AM PDT

Rights Stuff to Read
Fri May. 14, 2010 6:57 PM PDT

Who Shot the Dissident Thai General?
Fri May. 14, 2010 6:20 AM PDT

New Orleans Notebook: Bug Blight
Thu May. 13, 2010 12:22 PM PDT

Britain's New PM Supports Gay Refugees
Wed May. 12, 2010 3:28 PM PDT

Stat of the Day: The Waiting (in Jail) Game
Wed May. 12, 2010 11:28 AM PDT

What Will Happen to Louisiana's Wetlands?
Tue May. 11, 2010 1:54 PM PDT

15-Year-Old Gitmo Detainee Threatened With Rape
Tue May. 11, 2010 7:21 AM PDT

Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.

May/June 2013 Issue

Listen: Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.
Wed Apr. 24, 2013 11:26 AM PDT

Is PTSD Contagious?

It's rampant among returning vets—and now their spouses and kids are starting to show the same symptoms.

January/February 2013 Issue

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

Read the story that was nominated for a 2013 National Magazine Award.

March/April 2012 Issue

New Orleans Gets a Good Defense Lawyer

After Hurricane Katrina, the Big Easy's public defense system went from crappy to scrappy. But it's still struggling to stay afloat.

January/February 2012 Issue

An Ode to Fact-Checking

Mike Daisey, Fareed Zakaria, Jonah Lehrer, Niall Ferguson: Amid the truth-mangling epidemic, a shout-out to what it takes to get to the facts of the matter.

Wed Dec. 21, 2011 4:00 AM PST

Pity the Elf Slaves of Online Shipping

Every time you click "Place Order," a warehouse worker weeps.

Tue Dec. 20, 2011 4:00 AM PST

Gay Ugandans Come Out Fighting

Hate speech, death threats, and "corrective rape" haven't stopped them from confronting a new wave of homophobia.

January/February 2012 Issue

Ohio's War on the Middle Class

Wherein I go home, watch public servants get axed, visit the warehouse of unbearable sorrow, hang with jobless thirtysomethings in abandoned homes, and consider whether my generation is screwed.

November/December 2011 Issue

After Years of Living Large in Congo, Indicted Warlord Turns Himself In

Wherein I track Congolese war criminal Bosco Ntaganda to his lair—right next to the largest peacekeeping force in the world.

September/October 2011 Issue

Aftershocks: Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell

Dispatches from the tent cities, where rape gangs and disaster profiteers roam.

January/February 2011 Issue

A Fistful of Dollars

Crime is rampant. The cops and courts are a joke. That's why residents of Oklahoma's Indian nations turn to a bruiser-for-hire like Ruben.

November/December 2010 Issue

Haiti Dispatch: Inside Sean Penn's Tent City

First thing I learned: Whatever you do, don't go near the latrines.

Wed Oct. 20, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

"It's BP's Oil"

Running the corporate blockade at Louisiana's crude-covered beaches.

Mon May. 24, 2010 12:14 AM PDT

Blood Rubies: Are Your Dollars Propping Up Burma's Junta?
Wed Mar. 3, 2010 5:01 AM PST

Burma's Crazy, Fearless—and Victorious?—Rebels

Living with the young men who risk life and limb to document the dictatorship's genocide.

March/April 2010 Issue

Film: The Order of Myths

Inside Alabama's (still) segregated Mardi Gras.

January/February 2009 Issue

When All-American...Isn't

From apple juice to condoms, a short list of domestic products that aren't.

November/December 2008 Issue

O Say Can You Buy?

Why going "Made in the USA" for a week left me hungry, broke, and half-naked.

November/December 2008 Issue

Consumer Retorts: Hewlett-Packard

Any idea where in the world this printer came from?

November/December 2008 Issue

East Coast/West Coast Energy: The #$%* Is On!

Which side of the country is greener? Um, Germany.

May/June 2008 Issue

Bhutan's King Charming Is an Oxford Man

Meet the monarch hottie who just got the world's newest democratic body.

Fri Feb. 1, 2008 3:52 PM PST

SugarDaddy.com: Old Dogs, New Tricks

Old dogs, new tricks

January/February 2008 Issue

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

Reckon So Productions. <i>88 minutes</i>.

November/December 2007 Issue

Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone

Writer, publisher, and man-about-town Joshua Clark defied the mandatory evacuation that preceded the 2005 storm and hunkered down in his French Quarter apartment with his girlfriend and a radio.

Wed Aug. 29, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Prom in New Orleans

Despite gutted budgets and half-empty classrooms, students at UNO find something to celebrate.

Mon Aug. 27, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Is There a Doctor on the Base?

Military Physicians

July/August 2007 Issue