Clint Hendler

Clint Hendler

Managing Editor

Before rejoining Mother Jones in 2012, Clint was deputy editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, where he covered media law, government transparency, and the political press. He looks forward to becoming an authority on the Bay Area’s diverse forms of public transportation.

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Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Clint attended Dartmouth College where he edited the biweekly Free Press. After graduating, he worked at Mother Jones as an online intern and fellow, honed his paper-jam clearing skills as a desk assistant at PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and went to Columbia’s journalism school. His writing has been published by the New York Times, the Independent, AlterNet, The Nation, and CNN. He ferments, pickles, and scratches a small patch of dirt in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.

Toward a Better Food Aid System: An Interview with Sophia Murphy

An agricultural and trade expert challenges the United States' overly-rigid and wasteful food aid policies.

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| Tue Aug. 9, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

As recent headlines from Niger show, the world has not yet figured out how to stop famine and devastating hunger among the very poorest. More than enough food is grown worldwide to feed everyone on the earth, but according to the United Nations World Food Program, disasters such as war, crop failure, or drought—combined with structural problems such as poor governmental decisions, bad transportation, and brutal poverty—all conspire to keep one in seven people in the world hungry, and one in three children underweight.

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