Elizabeth Gettelman

Elizabeth Gettelman

Public Affairs Director

Elizabeth started at Mother Jones as a fact-check intern in 2004. After a stint as research editor she was MoJo's managing editor for five years before recently becoming the organization's head cheerleader.

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Prior to joining Mother Jones, Elizabeth worked as a newspaper reporter, a freelance writer, and a policy analyst in former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's administration, where she attended his soirees at the Top of the Mark. She's written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and other publications, and is the author of Sportsgirl: Competitive Basketball for Girls.

Steroids: Why We Can't Live Without Them
Fri Dec. 14, 2007 10:17 AM PST

Conservatives Call for Habeas
Wed Dec. 5, 2007 8:27 AM PST

Troubled Army Recruits Become Soldiers, More Troubled; Who's Responsible?
Tue Nov. 27, 2007 7:44 PM PST

Peace Brings Cash, For a Change
Wed Nov. 14, 2007 12:14 PM PST

San Francisco Oil Spill an Avoidable Disaster
Sun Nov. 11, 2007 6:33 PM PST

Oil Spill an Avoidable Homeland Disaster
Sun Nov. 11, 2007 3:32 PM PST

iTunes for Magazines?
Tue Nov. 6, 2007 2:07 PM PST

Romney and Guiliani, Bickering About Lawnmowers? Sorta.
Mon Nov. 5, 2007 11:47 PM PST

iTunes For Magazines?
Mon Nov. 5, 2007 11:32 PM PST

Evangelicals: Clinton, Giuliani, Anyone? Anyone?
Thu Nov. 1, 2007 11:33 AM PDT

Trumping Bush's Troop Card
Tue Oct. 30, 2007 2:40 PM PDT

Superdome Redux, San Diego Style
Tue Oct. 23, 2007 11:16 AM PDT

Why I Hate the Blue Angels
Thu Oct. 4, 2007 2:33 PM PDT

Bush on APEC...OPEC? Tomato, Tomahto
Fri Sep. 7, 2007 10:28 AM PDT

NRA Offers Free Memberships to Soldiers (Step Up, Costco)
Sun Sep. 2, 2007 7:42 PM PDT

Protesters in Berkeley: Up a Tree and Fenced In
Fri Aug. 31, 2007 10:22 AM PDT

A Different Casualty of War: Army Suicide Rate Skyrockets
Thu Aug. 16, 2007 12:06 AM PDT

Gay by Choice? Yeah, What If?
Sat Aug. 11, 2007 4:00 PM PDT

El Paso Opens Largest Inland Desalination Plant
Thu Aug. 9, 2007 11:20 AM PDT

Doctors Who Deny IVF Are Not Choosing Life
Fri Aug. 3, 2007 10:17 AM PDT

A Catastrophe of Historic Proportions
Wed Aug. 1, 2007 9:29 PM PDT

Victory in Iraq!
Mon Jul. 30, 2007 8:53 AM PDT

If Only a Doping Scandal Could Mean Victory in Iraq
Wed Jul. 25, 2007 5:57 PM PDT

Trash Continues To Pile Up, Threaten Public Health
Mon Jul. 23, 2007 10:48 AM PDT

Three More Iraqi Media Workers Killed Risking Their Lives For Our Headlines
Fri Jul. 13, 2007 10:34 PM PDT

Some Men's Trash More Treasured Than Other's
Thu Jul. 12, 2007 11:08 PM PDT

Bush Staffers Want to Grow Oranges in the Arctic
Sat Jun. 30, 2007 3:34 PM PDT

Monaghan's Ave Maria Town Open for Piety
Thu Jun. 28, 2007 9:20 AM PDT

Waste in Federal Contracts Now More Than $1 Trillion
Wed Jun. 27, 2007 11:08 AM PDT

Louisiana to Make "Partial-Birth Abortion" a Crime
Wed Jun. 27, 2007 9:42 AM PDT

Is MySpace Your Space? Not If You're In The Military
Tue May. 15, 2007 10:42 PM PDT

Fuel Tanker Melts Bay Bridge Freeway Artery
Sun Apr. 29, 2007 3:23 PM PDT

Mental Health Care Funding May Finally Get its Due, Probably Not
Wed Apr. 18, 2007 6:53 PM PDT

Partial Birth Abortion Ban's Both Arbitrary and Dangerous
Wed Apr. 18, 2007 11:29 AM PDT

What If He Was North Korean?
Tue Apr. 17, 2007 6:44 PM PDT

NRA's New President: A Rough First Day on the Job
Tue Apr. 17, 2007 5:24 PM PDT

Guns Out-Of-Control at the White House
Tue Apr. 17, 2007 4:14 PM PDT

Virginia Tech Students Speak Out
Mon Apr. 16, 2007 9:31 PM PDT

Virginia Home to Lax Gun Laws
Mon Apr. 16, 2007 4:16 PM PDT

FDA Sued For Politicizing Women's Health
Fri Apr. 13, 2007 10:08 AM PDT

FDA Sued For Politicizing Women's Health
Fri Apr. 13, 2007 9:39 AM PDT

Imus Doesn't Deserve a Face-to-Face With the "Rough Girls From Rutgers"
Tue Apr. 10, 2007 10:23 PM PDT

It's a Gay World After All
Fri Apr. 6, 2007 5:51 PM PDT

National Guard: One Weekend a Month...And Two Years in Iraq
Fri Apr. 6, 2007 10:22 AM PDT

Mary Cheney: It's a Boy!
Thu Apr. 5, 2007 11:59 AM PDT

Supreme Court Chastises Bush Administration For "Arbitrary, Capricious" Handling of Climate Change
Mon Apr. 2, 2007 11:35 AM PDT

McCain's MySpace Page Hacked
Tue Mar. 27, 2007 9:34 PM PDT

Banning Gay Adoption Would Cost Foster Care System $130 Million
Tue Mar. 27, 2007 10:00 AM PDT

Moving Mountains Just Got Harder
Mon Mar. 26, 2007 4:36 PM PDT

Birth Control Costs On Campus Double Thanks to Medicaid
Mon Mar. 26, 2007 11:00 AM PDT

Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore

The actress famed for portraying an ass-kicking cop in The Wire hustles to fight street violence in real life.

Thu Mar. 15, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Wendell Pierce Goes to Market

The "Treme" and "The Wire" actor on his career, launching a supermarket chain in New Orleans, and why Americans shy away from reality on television.

January/February 2012 Issue

Project Runway's Top Gunn

Tim Gunn on revolutionary fashion, the "It Gets Better" campaign, and why you're never too smart for style.

January/February 2012 Issue

How to Make a Feature Film With Your Cellphone

The Oscar-eligible "Olive" is the first theater-ready film to be shot entirely with a smartphone. Here's how it was done.

Fri Dec. 30, 2011 4:00 AM PST

All in the Game

Actor Michael Kenneth Williams on being Omar, "ear-hustling," and connecting with Mike Tyson.

September/October 2011 Issue

Rosario Dawson Acts Up

Hollywood's hottest actress-activist on YouTube flicks, telenovelas, and her Twitter addiction.

July/August 2011 Issue

Books: What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets

Who eats more, a Namibian trucker or a British mom? Authors Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio circle the globe to document the meal truth.

September/October 2010 Issue

Pat Tillman's War

The Tillman Story documentary reveals a family as heroic as the football star turned icon.

Fri Sep. 3, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

Jack Johnson Heads To the Sea

The smooth tracks of a surfing, songwriting, social-activist rock star.

Thu Jun. 10, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

The Enemy in Your Pants

The military’s decades-long war against STDs.

May/June 2010 Issue

Masters of the Uterus

The 3,500-year battle over where babies do—and don't—come from.

May/June 2010

Not Quite Ready to Be a Mother? That's Ok Too.

The greatest hits in contraceptive history, from crocodile dung to KISS condoms.

May/June 2010 Issue

A Voice in Haiti's Chorus

Author Edwidge Danticat on Haiti’s long road to recovery.

May/June 2010 Issue

Dope and Glory

From Viagra to Vancouver, our brave new performance enhancing world.

January/Febraury 2010 Issue

False Positives

The 10 best excuses given by athletes busted for doping.

January/February 2010 Issue

Film: 9500 Liberty

A Virginia county's battle over random immigration status checks.

January/February 2010 Issue

Into the Heart of Whiteness

Richard Benjamin on being the lone black guy at a white separatist retreat, and other adventures in America's whitest places.

Wed Dec. 23, 2009 5:00 AM PST

A Powerfully Concentrated History of Performance Enhancement
January/February 2010 Issue

Conspiracy Watch: America's Evilest Airport

Denver's airport of doom.

November/December 2009 Issue

Aboxalypse Now

Overpackaging, killer clamshells, and other common triggers of wrap rage.

November/December 2009 Issue

Consumer Retorts: Trader Joe's Bad Wrap

Yo, Joe! Do apples really need extra packaging?

September/October 2009 Issue

I'm With the Rand

Celebrity fans of the cult of selfishness.

July/August 2009 Issue

Conspiracy Watch: Operation Couch Potato

Does the government know you're addicted to <span style="font-style:normal !important;">Gossip Girl</span>?

May/June 2009

Can Biology Clean Up Sewage and Oil Spills?

From mushrooms to hair mats, quirky cleanups for man-made messes.

May/June 2009

Pop Culture Shards From the Trash Heap of History

Memorable garbage from Woodsy to Wall-E.

May/June 2009

Books: Righteous Porkchop

Nicolette Hahn Niman's insider story of fighting factory farms from the courtroom to the marketplace.

Tue Mar. 31, 2009 11:29 AM PDT

Gwen Ifill's Truth

The anchor of neutrality dishes on politesse and why it's so hard for her to vote.

Sun Mar. 29, 2009 3:31 PM PDT

Books: The Lottery Wars

Long odds, fast money, and the battle over an American institution.

March/April 2009

Conspiracy Watch: The Wisest Guys in the Room

Did the Mafia kneecap Wall Street?

January/February 2009 Issue

A Glossary of Sustainability

We decode green lingo, from "upcycling" to "LOHAS."

November/December 2008 Issue

Greens Gone Wild

Who says skivvies, sex, and booze can't factor into the sustainability equation?

November/December 2008 Issue

Kindergardens for All

Public school gardens are a frontline response to the obesity epidemic. So why aren't there more of them?

November/December 2008 Issue

DoNotMail.gov

The national Do Not Call registry is five years old. Is it time for a national Do Not Junk Mail list?

November/December 2008 Issue

Roundtable Review: W.

<i>MoJo</i> staffers riff on <i>W.</i>, Oliver Stone's biopic of George W. Bush, starring Josh Brolin.

Fri Oct. 17, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The MoJo Interview: Bill Maher

Caustic comedian Bill Maher on bargaining with God and why Christianity is just as crazy as Scientology.

September/October 2008 Issue