Heroes and Monsters 2025

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Monster of 2025: Kavanaugh Stops

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. The return of President Donald Trump has ushered in a new era of violent attacks by […]


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Hero of 2025: Rosalía

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Whether it’s AI-generated music artists debuting on the Billboard charts, music labels courting TikTok virality, Grammy-nominated […]


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Monster of 2025: GLP-1 Ads

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. My Instagram algorithm has decided that I am a woman, and, therefore, I must want to […]


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Hero of 2025: Alice Wong

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Alice Wong, disabled oracle and disability justice leader, died on November 14 at the age of […]


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Hero of 2025: Civil Servants

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. In early April, as the planet’s richest man chainsawed apart the livelihoods of thousands of hard-working […]


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Monsters of 2025: Rappers Gone MAGA

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. It seems like a relic now. But Donald Trump’s presidency once saw some of the culture’s […]


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Hero of 2025: Ultra-Processed Foods

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Get in, losers, we’re going grocery shopping. And we’re headed for everything but the perimeter of […]


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Monster of 2025: Cigarettes

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Every seventh cigarette, I think about how I am an idiot.  Do I even need to […]


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Hero of 2025: Principled Grand Juries

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Walk around Washington, DC, and you might spot murals painted in Sean Dunn’s honor, along with […]


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Hero of 2025: Kara Swisher

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. There are few pop culture stereotypes I despise more than the one about female reporters having […]


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Monster of 2025: Endless Subscriptions

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. The Hatch Restore alarm clock, which retails for $169, can light up your bedroom in every […]


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Hero of 2025: The Many Afterlives of “Diet Pepsi”

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. “Diet Pepsi,” the lead single from Addison Rae’s debut album, Addison, dropped last August, and I […]


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