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Monika Bauerlein

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Since taking the helm at Mother Jones in 2006, Monika and her co-editor, Clara Jeffery, have won two National Magazine Awards, launched a nine-person Washington bureau, relaunched the website, given birth, and forgotten what it’s like to sleep.

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Monika Bauerlein is co-editor of Mother Jones, where, together with Clara Jeffery, she spearheaded an era of editorial growth and innovation, marked by two National Magazine Awards for general excellence, the addition of a seven-person Washington Bureau, and an overhaul of the organization’s digital strategy that tripled MotherJones.com's traffic. Previously she was Mother Jones' investigative editor, focusing on long-form projects marrying in-depth reportage, document sleuthing, and narrative appeal. She has also worked as an alternative-weekly editor (at Minneapolis/St. Paul’s City Pages), a correspondent for US and European publications in Washington, D.C. and at the United Nations, an AP stringer, corporate trainer, translator, sausage slinger and fishing-line packager. She lives in Oakland.

Mother Jones Nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards

Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, multimedia, video (for the 47 percent video), and feature writing.

—By and

| Mon Apr. 1, 2013 7:26 AM PDT

Today, the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced the nominees for the 2013 National Magazine Awards. We are thrilled to announce that Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, print; multimedia; video (for the 47 percent video); and feature writing, for Mac McClelland's "I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave" (a.k.a. "Shelf Lives"). These awards, which honor work published in 2012, are considered the Academy Awards of the industry. On May 2, editors will gather in New York City to find out the winners.

The nominees were also notable for the number of women nominated for the writing and reporting categories. For the first time, women achieved parity in the number of such nominations. Hell, it's the first time they've come close. (Clara has more on that here.)

The official release from ASME is below. You can monitor chatter about the nominations on twitter by following @ASME1963 and the hashtag #ellies.

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NEW YORK, NY (April 1, 2013)—The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards. Known as the Ellies--for the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant" given to each award winner--the National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 2, at the New York Marriott Marquis.

The May 2 gala will also include the presentation of the Creative Excellence Award to Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard, whose work as graphic designers has shaped the modern magazine. The Creative Excellence Award was established in 2008 by ASME to recognize writers and artists who have made unique and enduring contributions to magazines.

Sixty-two publications were nominated this year in 23 categories. Twenty-six magazines received multiple nominations, led by National Geographic with seven, followed by Bon Appétit and New York, both with six. GQ and The New Yorker both received five nominations; Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones and Texas Monthly all received four.

Magazines with multiple nominations also include The Atlantic (3), Saveur (3), TIME (3), Wired (3), Bloomberg Businessweek (2), Byliner (2), Golf Digest (2) Los Angeles (2), Martha Stewart Living (2), The New York Times Magazine (2), Outside (2), The Paris Review (2), Real Simple (2), Scientific American (2),Slate (2), Sports Illustrated (2) and W (2).

Six publications are first-time finalists: Afar for Website; Bullett for Design; Byliner for Feature Writing and Fiction; HGTV Magazine for Magazine Section; mental_floss for General Excellence, Print; and Pitchfork for General Excellence, Digital Media.

Finalists in the Magazine of the Year category, honoring excellence both in print and on digital platforms, will be announced on Monday, April 8.
Established in 1966, the National Magazine Awards are sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Nearly 260 publications entered the National Magazine Awards this year, submitting 1,636 entries. The judges included 330 magazine editors, art directors and photography editors as well as journalism educators.

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2013 FINALISTS:

GENERAL EXCELLENCE, PRINT
News, Sports, and Entertainment Magazines
(Honors large-circulation weeklies, biweeklies and monthlies)
Esquire; Fortune; National Geographic; New York; Wired

Service and Fashion Magazines
(Honors women's magazines, including health, fitness and family-centric publications)
Harper's Bazaar; O, The Oprah Magazine; Real Simple; Vogue; Women's Health

Women's Health Lifestyle Magazines
(Honors food, travel and shelter magazines as well as city and regional publications)
Bon Appétit; House Beautiful; Martha Stewart Living; Saveur; Texas Monthly

Special-Interest Magazines
(Honors magazines serving targeted audiences, including enthusiast and hobbyist titles)
The Fader; mental_floss; MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History; Outside; Scientific American

Literary, Political and Professional Magazines
(Honors small-circulation general-interest magazines as well as academic and scholarly publications)
MIT Technology Review; Mother Jones; The New Republic; The Paris Review; Poetry

GENERAL EXCELLENCE, DIGITAL MEDIA
Chow; Glamour; National Geographic; Pitchfork; Slate

DESIGN
Bon Appétit; Bullett; Details; New York; TIME

PHOTOGRAPHY
Bon Appétit; Interview; National Geographic; TIME; W

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Harper's Magazine for "The Water of My Land," photographs by Samuel James; September
  • Martha Stewart Living for "A Pilgrim's Feast," photographs by Anna Williams; November
  • National Geographic for "In the Shadow of Wounded Knee," by Alexandra Fuller; photographs by Aaron Huey; August
  • New York for "What We Saw When The Lights Went Out," by John Homans; photographs by Iwan Baan, Pari Dukovic, Christopher Griffith, Casey Kelbaugh, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Joseph Michael Lopez, Gus Powell, Joseph Rodriguez and Peter Yang; November 12
  • W for "Good Kate, Bad Kate," by Will Self; photographs by Steven Klein; March

SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE

  • Backpacker for "The Survival Issue," October
  • Bloomberg Businessweek for "Election Issue," October 15-21
  • Fast Company for "The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies," March
  • Saveur for "The Mexico Issue," August/September
  • Sports Illustrated for "Olympic Preview," July 23

MAGAZINE SECTION

  • Bon Appétit for "Starters"
  • Esquire for "Man at His Best"
  • GQ for "The Punch List"
  • HGTV Magazine for "Help Wanted"
  • New York for "Strategist"

PERSONAL SERVICE

LEISURE INTERESTS

  • Bon Appétit for "The Incredible Egg," by Carla Lalli Music, April
  • ESPN The Magazine for "Fantasy Football," August 6
  • Golf Digest for "Masters Preview," April
  • Los Angeles for "The Food Lover's Guide to L.A.," edited by Lesley Bargar Suter; November
  • Wired for "How to Be a Geek Dad," June

WEBSITE
Afar; The Atlantic; Golf Digest; National Geographic; Scientific American

TABLET MAGAZINE
Bloomberg Businessweek; Bon Appétit; Esquire; Money; National Geographic

MULTIMEDIA

VIDEO

PUBLIC INTEREST

  • The Atlantic for "The Writing Revolution," by Peg Tyre; October
  • Consumer Reports for "Arsenic in Your Juice," January, and "Arsenic in Your Food," November, by Andrea Rock
  • The New Yorker for "The Throwaways," by Sarah Stillman; September 3
  • Rolling Stone for "School of Hate," by Sabrina Rubin Erdely; February 16
  • Texas Monthly for "Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives," by Mimi Swartz; August

REPORTING

  • Chicago for "Lawbreakers, Lawmakers," by David Bernstein and Noah Isackson; January
  • GQ for "18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque and 1 Man Dead in Ohio," by Chris Heath; March
  • Harper's Magazine for "All Politics Is Local: Election Night in Peru's Largest Prison," by Daniel Alarcón; February
  • The New York Times Magazine for "Did You Think About the Six People You Executed?" by Robert F. Worth; May 13
  • The New Yorker for "The Implosion," February 27, and "The War Within," August 27, by Jon Lee Anderson
  • Texas Monthly for "Hannah and Andrew," by Pamela Colloff; January
  • The Texas Observer for "Valley of Death," by Melissa del Bosque; March

FEATURE WRITING (INCORPORATING PROFILE WRITING)

  • Byliner for "The Living and the Dead," by Brian Mockenhaupt; October
  • GQ for "The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador," by Karen Russell; October
  • GQ for "Burning Man," by Jay Kirk; February
  • Mother Jones for "Shelf Lives," by Mac McClelland; March/April
  • The New Yorker for "Atonement," by Dexter Filkins; October 29 & November 5
  • Texas Monthly for "The Innocent Man: Part I," November, and "The Innocent Man: Part II," December, by Pamela Colloff
  • Wired for "Inside the Mansion—and the Mind—of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Internet," by Charles Graeber; November

ESSAYS AND CRITICISM

  • The Atlantic for "Fear of a Black President," by Ta-Nehisi Coates; September
  • Foreign Policy for "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy; May/June
  • New York for "A Life Worth Ending," by Michael Wolff; May 28
  • The New Yorker for "Over the Wall," by Roger Angell; November 19
  • Orion for "State of the Species," by Charles C. Mann; November/December

COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY

  • Elle for three columns by Daphne Merkin: "Portrait of a Lady," March; "Social Animal," May; and "We're All Helmut Newton Now," October
  • The Nation for three columns by Katha Pollitt: "Protect Pregnant Women: Free Bei Bei Shuai," March 26; "Ann Romney, Working Woman?" May 7; and "Blasphemy Is Good for You," October 15
  • New York for three columns by Frank Rich: "Who in God's Name Is Mitt Romney?" February 6; "Mayberry R.I.P.," July 30; and "Nora's Secret," August 27-September 3
  • The New York Times Magazine for three columns by Adam Davidson: "It Ain't Just Pickles," February 19; "The $200,000-Nanny Club," March 25; and "Caymans, Here We Come," July 29
  • Slate for three columns by Dahlia Lithwick: "It's Not About the Law, Stupid," March 22; "The Supreme Court's Dark Vision of Freedom," March 27; and "Where Is the Liberal Outrage?" July 6

FICTION

  • Byliner for "The Boy Vanishes," by Jennifer Haigh; July
  • Harper's Magazine for "Batman and Robin Have an Altercation," by Stephen King; September
  • Harper's Magazine for "Train," by Alice Munro; April
  • McSweeney's Quarterly for "River Camp," by Thomas McGuane; September
  • The Paris Review for "Housebreaking," by Sarah Frisch; December

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Source of 47 Percent Video to Go Public

—By and

| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 6:40 PM PDT

On September 17, Mother Jones' David Corn broke a story that became a key factor in the presidential campaign, revealing video of GOP candidate Mitt Romney speaking candidly to donors at a $50,000-a-plate campaign fundraiser. In the video, Romney said that 47 percent of Americans

"…will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them…These are people who pay no income tax."

The story went global instantly, appearing at the top of news sites and TV broadcasts around the world, with millions of people ultimately watching the video. But amid much speculation about the source of the recording, Corn did not reveal the name of the the person who shot the video, honoring a pledge to protect his identity. Now the source himself has decided to go public: He will tell his story Wednesday night on MSNBC's The Ed Show. (The Huffington Post has also published a couple of pieces about him, without disclosing his name.) We'll have more information then, but for now, we will continue to honor our commitment not to divulge details. You can watch the The Ed Show preview here.

Salute to James Ridgeway

A veteran MoJo reporter launches a new project

—By and

| Tue Mar. 5, 2013 6:31 AM PST
James Ridgeway

Jim Ridgeway—who leaves MoJo's staff roster this week to become a contributing reporter—is, though he'd never put it this way, one of the legends of modern muckraking. Back in 1965 he helped establish the nascent field of consumer reporting when he revealed that GM had run a dark-ops campaign against a young Ralph Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed detailed how automakers had knowingly sacrificed safety for sales. He went on to break more stories than we can count, digging into everything from energy politics to national security to the sex industry. MoJo co-founder Adam Hochschild remembers becoming a Ridgeway reader in 1968, when Jim and the late Andrew Kopkind started a newsletter called first Mayday and later Hard Times.

I still remember the yellow paper it came on, how eagerly I waited for each issue to arrive, and the pleasure of instantly knowing we shared a view of the world if I found that a new acquaintance was also a reader. It is sobering, in a way, to see how many of the problems Jim wrote about half a century ago are still with us. But it’s inspiring to see someone keep the faith all these years, especially someone who could have very easily had a successful and doubtless much more lucrative career writing unthreatening stories for the mainstream media. That, in fact, is where more than of few of the dissenters of the 1960s ended up.

Also among Ridgeway's admirers was Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Village Voice (where Ridgeway had become a staff writer) as part of his New York Magazine Co. acquisition in 1977.

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Mother Jones' David Corn Wins George Polk Award

—By and

| Sun Feb. 17, 2013 10:02 PM PST

How is MoJo Washington Bureau Chief David Corn like Edward R. Murrow, Carl Bernstein, David Halberstam, Gay Talese, Fred Friendly, I.F. Stone, and Walter Cronkite? So many ways really, but the most notable today is that they have all won a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism. Corn is the winner in the political reporting category for the 47 percent story—his revelation of a video documenting Mitt Romney's remarks at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser that 47 percent of Americans were "dependent upon the government" and would never "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

The Polk award, established in 1949 to honor a CBS correspondent murdered while covering the Greek Civil War, is given each year by Long Island University; this year's announcement commends Corn for the "years of high-impact journalism that helped lead him to the source of the recording," and for the "persistent digging and careful negotiation" that made the story possible. Other winners include the staff of Bloomberg News and the New York Times' David Barboza for uncovering corruption among China's elite; a team of McClatchy correspondents (including former MoJo contributor David Enders) covering the war in Syria; Sarah Stillman for her New Yorker piece on teen informants; Ryan Gabrielson of California Watch for a story on abuses in state clinics for the disabled; and the Frontline team behind the documentary "Money, Power, and Wall Street." For David and all of us at Mother Jones, it's a capstone for an amazing year and thrilling recognition for a project that has been widely credited with changing the course of the campaign.

No More Newtowns: What Will It Take?

How to change the unchangeable.

—By and

| Mon Dec. 17, 2012 8:29 AM PST
A White House vigil on December 14

As we sat in horror Friday morning watching the details of the Newtown school shootings emerge, one question kept pushing through the anger, the grief, the ache to go hug our own kids: What would it take? What, after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, the Sikh temple shooting, and so many others, what would it take for the nation to grapple with the fact that our gun policy is the equivalent of leaving your gun cabinet unlocked with a "Murderers Help Yourself" sign on it? President Obama is right: We can't say we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, or that the politics are too hard, or that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom. But what then must we do?

Gun control may be famously intractable, but it doesn't take a genius to spot a few key correlations:

  1. There are more guns out there, and fewer controls, than ever before.
  2. There are a lot of people with mental-health problems, and services have been cut.
  3. We have seen a record number of mass shootings this year—more than twice as many victims as in any previous year.
  4. Even if you don't want to stipulate that 1 and 2 are causally related to 3, making it harder for dangerous people to get lethal weapons can only help.

Many Americans are in agreement, in principle, on point 4. So what would it take for that agreement to translate into action in the face of one of the most powerful lobbies the world has ever seen? What has it taken in the past to change the seemingly unchangeable, from slavery and child labor to the disenfranchisement of women and minorities?

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Source of 47 Percent Video to Go Public
Tue Mar. 12, 2013 6:40 PM PDT

Mother Jones' David Corn Wins George Polk Award
Sun Feb. 17, 2013 10:02 PM PST

Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery Talk Dark Money With Bill Moyers
Fri Jun. 15, 2012 5:00 PM PDT

MoJo’s FBI Informants Story Wins Major International Award
Thu May. 31, 2012 11:00 AM PDT

15 Reasons You Should Donate to Mother Jones
Fri Apr. 27, 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Time for Some Troll Whacking
Sat Feb. 4, 2012 2:34 PM PST

RIP Christopher Hitchens: Provocateur and Damn Good Writer
Fri Dec. 16, 2011 5:39 AM PST

Behind the Story: MoJo's Investigation of Terrorism Informants
Sun Aug. 21, 2011 11:46 AM PDT

Speedup Wonkdown
Tue Jun. 21, 2011 2:47 PM PDT

Free The Reporters
Tue May. 3, 2011 12:19 AM PDT

Colbert: "Why Not Make it Official? Let the Rich Start Their Own Country."
Wed Mar. 2, 2011 12:30 PM PST

Hey Look, It's a New Homepage!
Fri Feb. 4, 2011 2:00 AM PST

Who You Calling a Print Magazine? MoJo Wins Online News Association Award
Sun Oct. 31, 2010 12:32 AM PDT

Attack of the 50-Foot Palin
Mon Oct. 25, 2010 3:00 AM PDT

MoJo Writer Imprisoned in Iran: 365 Days is Too Long
Sun Aug. 1, 2010 1:04 AM PDT

Someone Pinch Us: MoJo Wins Another "Magazine Oscar"
Fri Apr. 23, 2010 5:45 PM PDT

Stewart Rhodes Doesn't Like MoJo. That's Why You Do.
Mon Apr. 19, 2010 5:12 PM PDT

Introducing the Climate Desk
Mon Apr. 19, 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Watch: DC's Stockholm Syndrome
Mon Jan. 11, 2010 1:01 PM PST

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Wed Dec. 30, 2009 3:33 AM PST

Copenhagen: Time To Get Over Ourselves
Mon Dec. 7, 2009 1:16 AM PST

Watch: GM's Brazilian Offsets Scheme
Wed Nov. 4, 2009 9:42 AM PST

Make Your Own MoJo Climate Cover!
Fri Oct. 23, 2009 4:25 AM PDT

Fix the Climate, or the Kid Gets It
Wed Oct. 14, 2009 9:36 PM PDT

Will Ahmadinejad Free the Hikers?
Wed Sep. 23, 2009 12:01 AM PDT

9/11: Truth, Trutherism, and Truthiness
Thu Sep. 10, 2009 7:11 PM PDT

Families of Hikers Detained in Iran Speak Out
Wed Aug. 19, 2009 9:46 PM PDT

Get Your Kevin Fix
Sat Aug. 15, 2009 9:49 AM PDT

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Fri Aug. 14, 2009 10:16 PM PDT

Mother Jones Responds to Fiji Water
Thu Aug. 13, 2009 11:39 AM PDT

Obama Sips It, Celebs Love It--How Did Water From a Junta-Ruled Country Go Eco-Chic?
Wed Aug. 12, 2009 2:00 AM PDT

Detained Hikers' Families Make Statement
Tue Aug. 11, 2009 11:12 AM PDT

Detained Writer's Mother Jones Piece Now Online
Tue Aug. 11, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

Details on MoJo Writer Missing In Kurdistan
Thu Aug. 6, 2009 11:36 AM PDT

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Thu Aug. 6, 2009 1:30 AM PDT

Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho): Hey MoJo, You're Awesome!
Thu Jul. 23, 2009 12:32 PM PDT

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Mon Jun. 1, 2009 5:25 AM PDT

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Tue Apr. 14, 2009 10:51 PM PDT

Come see Rachel Maddow (in SF)--ticket giveaway
Wed Mar. 25, 2009 2:51 PM PDT

We Rock! Three "Magazine Oscar" Nominations for MoJo
Wed Mar. 18, 2009 3:19 PM PDT

What Do Men Want (To Read)?
Wed Feb. 18, 2009 11:22 PM PST

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Tue Feb. 17, 2009 4:55 PM PST

You Are the Best Readers Ever
Tue Jan. 6, 2009 2:09 PM PST

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Sat Dec. 27, 2008 4:38 PM PST

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Thu Dec. 25, 2008 11:09 PM PST

This is Almost Too Easy
Tue Dec. 23, 2008 3:00 PM PST

Our Writers Are Even More Amazing Than We Thought: Nomi Prins' Challenge to Readers
Mon Dec. 22, 2008 2:40 PM PST

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Wed Dec. 17, 2008 1:42 PM PST

Kindergarten Landslide
Tue Nov. 4, 2008 12:46 AM PST

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Thu Sep. 25, 2008 10:59 PM PDT

Mother Jones Nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards

Mother Jones has been nominated in four categories: general excellence, multimedia, video (for the 47 percent video), and feature writing.

Mon Apr. 1, 2013 7:26 AM PDT

Salute to James Ridgeway

A veteran MoJo reporter launches a new project

Tue Mar. 5, 2013 6:31 AM PST

No More Newtowns: What Will It Take?

How to change the unchangeable.

Mon Dec. 17, 2012 8:29 AM PST

Public Opinion Has Moved on Climate Change. Will Obama Follow—or Fiddle?

It's not jobs vs. climate. It's about a disaster economy vs. an adaptive one.

Mon Dec. 3, 2012 4:03 AM PST

Marcus Samuelsson's Harlem Renaissance

He's got one of the best backstories in the food universe and more stars than the August sky. Now Red Rooster's chef aims to change how—and where—a city eats.

Fri Aug. 10, 2012 3:01 AM PDT

Romney at Bain: How the Story Broke

What do we know about the candidate's departure from his company, and when did we know it?

Tue Jul. 17, 2012 3:30 AM PDT

How to Sweep Dark Money Out of Politics

Undoing Citizens United, the DIY guide.

July/August 2012 Issue

Where Are the Women Writers? ASME Chief Responds.

MoJo's editors and the American Society of Magazine Editors' Sid Holt discuss the byline gap.

Tue Apr. 17, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

WTF, GOP?

Dear Republicans: You shoulda had this election in the bag. But then you took a long detour to Crazytown.

May/June 2012 Issue

Occupied Washington

Grotesque income inequality is just a symptom of our larger political disease.

January/February 2012 Issue

Occupy Wall Street Raided

Police cordon off Zuccotti Park, take down camp, keep out press (but MoJo reporter Josh Harkinson makes it in).

Tue Nov. 15, 2011 12:40 AM PST

The Job Killers

Why are Republicans determined to snuff the recovery?

November/December 2011 Issue

Boehner's Handicap

There are 24 boys-only golf clubs left in America. Our speaker belongs to one. What does this have to do with debt fight? Everything.

Tue Aug. 2, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup

The Dow just hit a record high, corporate profits are soaring—and you're struggling. Here's the dirty secret of the jobless recovery.

July/August 2011 Issue

Why Do We Keep Falling For O'Keefe's Smear Jobs?

It took days for someone to factcheck the NPR "sting"—and then the job fell to Glenn Beck's (!!) site.

Mon Mar. 28, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Sarah Palin vs. Cory Booker

Who's really using social media to transform politics?

March/April 2011 Issue

Haiti vs. Pot

Which cover would you pick?

January/February 2011 Issue

Are the Tea Partiers Being Taken for a Ride?

Voters beware—the head you're putting on the chopping block may be your own.

November/December 2010 Issue

What's Good for BP

From Old Spice Guy to Beyond Petroleum, companies do their best to endear themselves to us—but let's not forget where their real priorities are.

September/October 2010 Issue

Confidence Game

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July/August 2010 Issue

Too Many? Too Much?

What we don't talk about when we don't talk about population.

Thu Apr. 15, 2010 11:43 AM PDT

Patriot Games

From blowhardery to nihilism to...treason?

March/April 2010 Issue

Too Big to Jail?

Why, three years after Wall Street crashed the economy, it's still time to fix its accountability deficit.

January/February 2010 Issue

The Climate Countdown

Stop the dithering and give our kids a chance.

November/December 2009 Issue

The Price of Truth

Sure, information <span style="font-style:italic;">wants</span> to be free. Alas, it's not.

September/October 2009 Issue

This Is Your War on Drugs

Since 1998, the drug czar has been mandated to lie to the American people. So what would a fact-based drug policy look like?

July/August 2009 Issue

Learning From the CEOs

Sticking up for one another has worked great for them. How about the rest of us try it too?

May/June 2009

Editors' Note: March/April 2009

Want to fix the country? Fix food.

March/April 2009

Mother Jones Goes Open Source

We've relaunched. Here's why.

Tue Feb. 10, 2009 6:04 PM PST

Editors' Note

As long as we're sticking our kids with the bailout tab, let's leave them some souvenirs.

January/February 2009 Issue

Can Greed Be Green?

Why Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens think so.

November/December 2008 Issue

Don't Let the Screen Door Hit You, Mr. President

Compared to W, Herbert Hoover is starting to look awfully good.

September/October 2008 Issue

What The Daycare Crisis and the Housing Meltdown Have in Common

Two editors, two mothers, and one major magazine award. What the economic gurus could learn from our small shop.

July/August 2008 Issue

Our New Energy Crisis

When it comes to energy, we need real change.

May/June 2008 Issue

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