MoJo Podcasts

MoJo podcasts feature irreverent interviews with today's most exciting actors, musicians, authors, muckrakers, and more. A new episode is available weekly.

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MoJo Podcast: Week in Review With Kevin Drum and David Corn

Fri Jun. 19, 2009 3:27 PM PDT

Length: 9:57 minutes (8 MB)

David Corn is Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones. Kevin Drum is a political blogger based in California. Together, they cover national news and politics from coast to coast. New Media Editor Laura McClure spoke with Corn and Drum about the Twitter revolution in Tehran, why doctors booed Obama, and this week's undercovered news item.
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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for Katty Kay, Author of Womenomics

—By Nikki Gloudeman

| Fri Jun. 12, 2009 8:41 PM PDT

Length: 14:33 minutes (8 MB)

In the new book Womenomics, journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay examine how women can use their growing professional power to find balance between their work and their lives. Nikki Gloudeman spoke with Katty Kay about how women (and men) can demand more flexibility at work, whether female CEOs could have prevented the current economic crisis, and why the recession might be good news for working women. For more Mother Jones audio, check out MotherJones.com/podcasts.

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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for Writer Tom Engelhardt

—By Nikki Gloudeman

| Fri Jun. 5, 2009 4:43 PM PDT

Length: 12:07 minutes (8 MB)

Tom Engelhardt is the moderator of Tom Dispatch, a website billed as an "antidote to the mainstream media." He spent three decades as a book editor, and is the author of The Last Days of Publishing and The End of Victory Culture.

Engelhardt spoke with Mother Jones about the future of publishing, Sotomayor’s abortion views, and why he doesn’t identify as a progressive.

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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for David Corn and Kevin Drum

Fri May. 29, 2009 2:24 PM PDT

Length: 13:56 minutes (8 MB)

David Corn is Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones. Kevin Drum is a political blogger based in California. Together, they cover national news and politics from coast to coast. Multimedia Editor Laura McClure spoke with Corn and Drum about Obama's pick of Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, the latest on Prop 8, and this week's torture news.

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5 Questions for Kevin Drum (MoJo Audio)

Fri May. 22, 2009 2:13 PM PDT

Length: 7:02 minutes (6.44 MB)

Kevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones. Known for his keen political insight, wonky charts, and Friday catblogging, Drum was recently named one of the 25 most influential liberals in US media by Forbes.com. Multimedia Editor Laura McClure spoke with Drum about gay marriage, Obama and Cheney's torture faceoff, and why listeners shouldn't blog on topics they don't care about.

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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for Pulitzer Prize Winner David Cay Johnston

—By Laura McClure

| Fri May. 15, 2009 4:55 PM PDT

Length: 7:31 minutes (6.89 MB)

David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill). A frequent writer on economic justice issues, his feature in the May/June 2009 issue of Mother Jones explains just how the boss absconded with your benefits.

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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for Filmmakers Chris Eyre and Ric Burns

Fri May. 8, 2009 5:01 PM PDT

Length: 11:30 minutes (8 MB)

Feature film director Chris Eyre has been giving a voice to contemporary Native American people ever since his 1998 indie hit Smoke Signals. Director Ric Burns has built his career on documentary films about innovators like Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams.

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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for Comedian Sarah Haskins

Fri May. 1, 2009 4:56 PM PDT

Length: 9:04 minutes (8 MB)

Sarah Haskins is a correspondent for Current TV's "Target Women." The comedian sat down with Mother Jones to talk about cougars, comedy, and Maureen Dowd.

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MoJo Podcast: 5 Questions for Author Khaled Hosseini

—By Michael Mechanic

| Fri Apr. 24, 2009 4:25 PM PDT

Length: 13:22 minutes (12.23 MB)

Khaled Hosseini's fortunes have risen as his native Afghanistan's have sunk. His debut novel The Kite Runner sold 6 million copies and was turned into a feature film. His second, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is also headed to the silver screen.

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MoJo Audio: 5 Questions for Vlogger Jonathan Mann

—By Nikki Gloudeman

| Fri Apr. 17, 2009 1:30 PM PDT

Length: 10:31 minutes (8 MB)

Jonathan Mann started his "Rock Cookie Bottom" website with a simple but quirky commitment: to post one original music video every day.

Since then, Mann has posted more than 100 videos to his site. His most successful song, about economist Paul Krugman, caught the attention of MSNBC, the Huffington Post, and Rachel Maddow.

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