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.

Full Bio | Get my RSS |

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.

Scrabble Amateurs Post Record Score, Americans Obsess About Just About Everything
Tue Oct. 31, 2006 10:52 AM PST

Jane Pauley Sues the NYT for Duping Her into an Advertorial
Fri Oct. 27, 2006 9:33 AM PDT

Cheney Calls Waterboarding a "No-Brainer"
Thu Oct. 26, 2006 10:50 AM PDT

Medical Groups Recommend the Transfer of Fewer Embryos in Fertility Treatments
Wed Oct. 25, 2006 10:31 AM PDT

Fresh GOP Scandal Escalates, DOJ Searches Nguyen's HQ, Home
Sat Oct. 21, 2006 7:46 AM PDT

Twain's Frog Scores Victory Over Pombo
Fri Oct. 20, 2006 11:50 AM PDT

GAO Says Abstinence-Only Education Curricula Must Include Info on STIs and Condoms
Thu Oct. 19, 2006 4:50 PM PDT

National Guard Recruitment Pitch Leaves Out Iraq, Enlistments Soaring
Mon Oct. 16, 2006 11:56 AM PDT

Repro Rights Groups Asks Judges to Subpoena White House Docs in Lawsuit Over Plan B
Thu Oct. 12, 2006 10:57 AM PDT

Trekkies with Disposable Income Pay Millions for Memories
Mon Oct. 9, 2006 11:02 AM PDT

Ben Bernanke's Hippie Roots
Tue Sep. 12, 2006 4:37 PM PDT

If Cheney Had a Do-Over? "We'd Do Exactly the Same Thing"
Mon Sep. 11, 2006 10:05 AM PDT

RadioShack Streamlines the Layoff Process, Emails Pinkslips to 400 Workers
Thu Sep. 7, 2006 10:42 AM PDT

Accutane Users Pledge Abstinence, or Commit to Test After Test
Wed Sep. 6, 2006 11:36 AM PDT

Tucker Carlson Defends One of America's 10 Most Wanted
Thu Aug. 31, 2006 2:13 PM PDT

GM Petrified? Automaker Drops Survivor Sponsorship
Wed Aug. 30, 2006 10:43 PM PDT

Leaving a Whole Lot of Americans Behind: Number of Uninsured Reaching Epidemic Proportions
Wed Aug. 30, 2006 9:51 AM PDT

Yet More Evidence That the Average Worker's Getting the Shaft
Tue Aug. 29, 2006 3:00 PM PDT

Chris Mooney's Republican War on Science, Revised and Updated
Mon Aug. 28, 2006 4:03 PM PDT

Dirty Dancing in Iraq a Morale Boost, For Some
Sun Aug. 27, 2006 5:22 PM PDT

NYC, Civil Rights Groups Blast TV's Survivor
Sat Aug. 26, 2006 10:22 AM PDT

Nagin's "Hole in the Ground" Comment Draws Claws
Fri Aug. 25, 2006 10:03 AM PDT

FDA's Missing More Than 9,000 Drugs From its Rolls
Thu Aug. 24, 2006 9:58 AM PDT

Forbes Pulls Article on Working Women Not Being the Marrying Kind
Wed Aug. 23, 2006 7:33 PM PDT

Forbes to Readers: Don't Marry a Career Woman
Wed Aug. 23, 2006 3:01 PM PDT

As if Medicare isn't Confusing Enough: 230,000 Seniors Sent Checks They Can't Cash
Wed Aug. 23, 2006 10:40 AM PDT

Oil Spill off Lebanese Coast Rivals the Exxon Valdez Disaster
Tue Aug. 22, 2006 11:47 AM PDT

Just Do It. But Don't Get Caught
Mon Aug. 21, 2006 6:16 PM PDT

An Army of One Thing After Another
Sun Aug. 20, 2006 8:00 AM PDT

Depends on what the meaning of "hoax" is
Thu Aug. 17, 2006 3:05 PM PDT

Monsoons, flooding and landslides, oh my! El Paso's finally an official Disaster Area
Thu Aug. 17, 2006 11:53 AM PDT

Private donors give $100 million to stem cell research
Wed Aug. 16, 2006 5:48 PM PDT

Significant Drop in Risky Sex Among Teens?
Fri Aug. 11, 2006 5:44 PM PDT

U.S. Stem Cell Research Falling Way Behind
Thu Jul. 27, 2006 11:47 AM PDT

Americans Not Pleased With Bush's Stem Cell Veto
Wed Jul. 26, 2006 1:51 PM PDT

Bush's Stem Cell Veto Will Hurt Hundreds of Thousands of Sick Americans
Wed Jul. 19, 2006 12:51 PM 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