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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A Strike Against Oil Spill Lawsuits
Mon May. 10, 2010 9:43 AM PDT

A Strike Against Oil Spill Lawsuits
Mon May. 10, 2010 6:46 AM PDT

New Orleans Notebook: Freezing Budgets, Overheating Pants
Fri May. 7, 2010 2:31 PM PDT

Rights Stuff to Read
Fri May. 7, 2010 1:51 PM PDT

Mother's Day Gifts for Do-Gooders
Thu May. 6, 2010 9:11 AM PDT

Can You Eat Oil-Slick Oysters?
Wed May. 5, 2010 10:34 AM PDT

Can You Eat Oil-Slick Oysters?
Wed May. 5, 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Who's Trying to Kill New Orleans?
Tue May. 4, 2010 12:33 PM PDT

The Plessy Next Door
Tue May. 4, 2010 10:50 AM PDT

Take Me Back to New Orleans
Mon May. 3, 2010 9:00 AM PDT

The Drug Army That Could Take Out the Taliban
Mon May. 3, 2010 7:01 AM PDT

Can Women Peacekeepers Stop Haiti's Rape Crisis?
Mon May. 3, 2010 6:01 AM PDT

Re: YouTube's M.I.A. Burial
Mon May. 3, 2010 4:30 AM PDT

Rights Stuff to Read
Fri Apr. 30, 2010 1:50 PM PDT

Nagaland for Dummies
Fri Apr. 30, 2010 12:00 PM PDT

Why YouTube's Censorship Seems Dubious
Thu Apr. 29, 2010 2:50 PM PDT

Uzbekistan Gets Back Into Eugenics
Thu Apr. 29, 2010 9:37 AM PDT

Plot Thickens in Sonoma Discrimination Case
Wed Apr. 28, 2010 9:14 AM PDT

Map of the Day: Cousin Lovin'
Tue Apr. 27, 2010 9:40 AM PDT

Scenes From the Gay Marriage Battle
Mon Apr. 26, 2010 5:51 PM PDT

Rights Stuff to Read
Fri Apr. 23, 2010 9:30 AM PDT

Happy World Malaria Day
Thu Apr. 22, 2010 9:12 AM PDT

A Few Good Documentaries
Tue Apr. 20, 2010 1:45 PM PDT

Stat of the Day: Capital Punishment Club
Tue Apr. 20, 2010 5:12 AM PDT

Rights Stuff to Read
Fri Apr. 16, 2010 6:15 AM PDT

Better Know a Bad Guy: Than Shwe
Fri Apr. 16, 2010 4:57 AM PDT

Today's Terrorism in Burma
Thu Apr. 15, 2010 10:20 AM PDT

What You Can Do for Burma
Tue Apr. 13, 2010 9:12 AM PDT

On Outsourcing: Indian Uterus Edition
Thu Apr. 8, 2010 3:00 PM PDT

Brits Outsource Their Votes
Wed Apr. 7, 2010 8:00 AM PDT

Why Diss Lindsay Lohan for Tackling Child Trafficking?
Mon Apr. 5, 2010 10:54 AM PDT

NPR's Sex Problem
Fri Apr. 2, 2010 2:25 PM PDT

Burma's Bogus Elections
Fri Apr. 2, 2010 4:20 AM PDT

Domestic Violence Redux
Thu Apr. 1, 2010 11:46 PM PDT

Hot Humanitarian: Chris Lin
Thu Apr. 1, 2010 4:30 AM PDT

Spousal Abuse Spiking
Tue Mar. 30, 2010 5:00 AM PDT

For More on Congo
Mon Mar. 29, 2010 12:28 PM PDT

No Booze or Bikinis Allowed
Fri Mar. 26, 2010 9:56 AM PDT

Should Spring Breakers Boycott Thailand?
Wed Mar. 24, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

Why You Should Read This Blog
Fri Mar. 19, 2010 3:53 PM PDT

Ex Army Ranger, Christian Missionary, Full Time Guerrilla
Wed Mar. 3, 2010 5:05 AM PST

Smuggling Cory Doctorow Into a Dictatorship
Mon Feb. 1, 2010 4:23 PM PST

How Hustler Does Christmas
Tue Jan. 19, 2010 9:01 PM PST

Help Haiti Now
Tue Jan. 12, 2010 8:58 PM PST

Best Abstinence Advice Ever
Tue Nov. 24, 2009 12:26 PM PST

How America Can Win in Afghanistan's Elections
Thu Aug. 13, 2009 11:20 AM PDT

You Gonna Jump or Jerk Off?
Wed Apr. 29, 2009 6:15 PM PDT

More "News" About the Oldest Profession
Mon Apr. 13, 2009 3:57 PM PDT

The Skinny Tie Is Officially Back!
Fri Mar. 6, 2009 3:21 PM PST

One Cool Thing About Working for Hustler
Wed Feb. 25, 2009 6:20 PM PST

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