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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Sugar Daddy Redux
Thu Dec. 4, 2008 12:09 PM PST

Ten Most Awesome Presidential Mudslinging Moves Ever
Fri Oct. 31, 2008 12:45 PM PDT

Where's Your Economic Stimulus Check?
Fri Jun. 27, 2008 12:02 PM PDT

Do Your Condoms Work?
Thu Jun. 19, 2008 12:32 PM PDT

Warning: This Durex Condom May Be Completely Useless
Wed Jun. 18, 2008 4:56 PM PDT

Get Ready for the Ron Paul Blimp (Blimp? Blimp!)
Thu Nov. 29, 2007 1:00 PM PST

Free Your Naughty Bits, Free Burma
Thu Nov. 29, 2007 11:10 AM PST

Help Save Africa With a Subpar Madonna Cover Album
Fri Nov. 16, 2007 1:43 PM PST

Def Leppard Still Shirtless, Awesome
Tue Sep. 25, 2007 6:04 PM PDT

Are Babies Causing Global Warming?
Wed Sep. 12, 2007 1:06 PM PDT

Hooray for Beard Team USA!
Wed Sep. 5, 2007 10:19 AM PDT

Want to Know Where the Hurricane Relief Money Went?
Thu Aug. 30, 2007 2:59 PM PDT

Happy Anniversary, Katrina Victims! You Could Celebrate With Cash if You Weren't So Unscrupulous
Wed Aug. 29, 2007 5:54 PM PDT

Burma Protests, Gets Shout-out From Jim Carrey
Wed Aug. 29, 2007 4:47 PM PDT

MSNBC Reports Really, Really Fake News
Fri Aug. 24, 2007 12:44 PM PDT

Newark Gets It Together in Response to Homicides; New Orleans, Not So Much
Tue Aug. 14, 2007 1:04 PM PDT

Red Cross Steps Up Aid in Kandahar
Thu Aug. 2, 2007 12:21 PM PDT

Global Drug Use Down, Except For...
Tue Jun. 26, 2007 1:32 PM PDT

SC House Hell-Bent on Violating Women's Rights to Promote Fetus'
Fri Apr. 13, 2007 11:22 AM PDT

Catholic League Displeased by Edible Nude Crucifix
Fri Mar. 30, 2007 3:54 PM PDT

Burger King Finally Gives PETA an Inch
Thu Mar. 29, 2007 4:36 PM PDT

Forget DEET: Mutant Mosquitoes Offer "New Hope" to Malarial Regions
Tue Mar. 27, 2007 12:17 PM PDT

Stoning Deaths Continue In Sudan
Wed Mar. 21, 2007 3:20 PM PDT

Join the Club? More Killing of the Adorable and Defenseless
Tue Mar. 20, 2007 5:12 PM PDT

Burma Struggles For Help, Headlines
Tue Feb. 27, 2007 6:19 PM PST

Minnesota Goes Green, Really Green
Fri Feb. 23, 2007 7:20 PM PST

Still Fewer "Criminals" in the Army Than in Your Neighborhood Bar
Thu Feb. 15, 2007 12:19 AM 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