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Mother Jones (magazine)
''Mother Jones'' (abbreviated ''MoJo'') is a nonprofit American Left-wing politics in the United States, left-wing magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, Biophysical environment, environment, human rights, health and culture. Clara Jeffery serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine. Monika Bauerlein has been the CEO since 2015. ''Mother Jones'' was published by the Foundation for National Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, until 2024, when it merged with The Center for Investigative Reporting, now its publisher. The magazine is named after Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, socialist advocate, and ardent opponent of child labor. History For the first five years after its inception in 1976, ''Mother Jones'' operated with an editorial board, and members of the board took turns serving as managing editor for one-year terms. People who served on the editorial team during those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Jeffery
Clara Jeffery (born August 25, 1967) is an American journalist who is the editor-in-chief of ''Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones'' and The Center for Investigative Reporting. Career Jeffery was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was raised in Arlington, Virginia, and attended the Sidwell Friends School (1985), before going to Carleton College (1989). She earned a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995, Jeffery was a staff editor and writer at ''Washington City Paper''. She was a senior editor at ''Harper's Magazine'' (1995–2002), where she edited six articles nominated for a National Magazine Award, including essays by Barbara Ehrenreich that became ''Nickel and Dimed''. She became deputy editor of ''Mother Jones'', a position she held for four years, and was promoted to co-editor in August 2006. Jeffery was promoted to editor-in-chief in May, 2015. Together, Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein have aimed to pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Harris Jones
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on Child labor in the United States, child labor, and co-founded the Labor unionist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the Child labor laws in the United States, child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Observer
''The New York Observer'' was a weekly newspaper established in 1987. In 2016, it ceased print publication and became the online-only newspaper ''Observer''. The media site focuses on culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. History The ''Observer'' was first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, as a weekly alternative newspaper by Arthur L. Carter, a former investment banker. The ''New York Observer'' had also been the title of an earlier weekly religious paper founded 164 years before by Sidney E. Morse in 1823. After almost two decades, in July 2006, the paper was purchased by the American real estate figure Jared Kushner, then only 25 years old. The paper began its life as a broadsheet, and was then printed in tabloid format every Wednesday, and currently has an exclusively online format on an internet website. It is headquartered at 1 Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. Previous prominent writers for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Corn
David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist and author. He is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for '' Mother Jones'' and is best known as a cable television commentator. Corn worked at ''The Nation'' from 1987 to 2007, where he served as Washington editor. Early life and education Corn was raised in a Jewish family in White Plains, New York.Brown Alumni Magazine: "You Don't Have to Trust Me" by Stephanie Grace May/June 2013 He graduated from White Plains High School in 1977. He attended |
ExxonMobil Climate Change Controversy
From the 1980s to mid 2000s, ExxonMobil was a leader in climate change denial, opposing regulations to curtail global warming. For example, ExxonMobil was a significant influence in preventing ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by the United States. ExxonMobil funded organizations critical of the Kyoto Protocol and seeking to undermine public opinion about the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Of the major oil corporations, ExxonMobil has been the most active in the debate surrounding climate change. According to a 2007 analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the company used many of the same strategies, tactics, organizations, and personnel the tobacco industry used in its denials of the link between lung cancer and smoking. ExxonMobil has funded, among other groups, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Heartland Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Rymer
Russ Rymer (born May 17, 1952) is an American author and freelance journalist who has contributed articles to the ''New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The New Yorker'', ''National Geographic'', ''Harper's'', ''Smithsonian'', ''Vogue'', ''Los Angeles Magazine'', and other publications. His first book, ''Genie, a Scientific Tragedy'' (1993), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won a Whiting Award. It was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary. His second book, about the American Beach community in Florida, was ''American Beach: a Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory''. His third book and first novel, ''Paris Twilight'', was published in 2013. In 2005, Rymer became the editor-in-chief for '' Mother Jones'', holding the position only one year. From 2011 to 2013 Rymer was the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at Smith College. He was the 2009-2010 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre English
Deirdre English (b.1948) is an American journalist who has written and edited work on a wide array of subjects related to investigative reporting, cultural politics, gender studies, and public policy. The former Editor-in-Chief of '' Mother Jones'' magazine (1978-1986), she was a continuing lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism from 2000-2024. She is the daughter of Fanita English and Maurice English. Deirdre English was a co-founder of one of the first women’s studies programs in the US, and also taught American Studies and magazine feature writing, at the College of Old Westbury at the State University of New York. She has taught at City College of New York and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work includes For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’s Advice to Women', co-authored with Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich (, ; ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Bruce Klein
Jeffrey Bruce Klein (January 15, 1948 – March 13, 2025) was an American investigative journalist who co-founded ''Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones'' in 1976. For its first issue he found a piece that won a National Magazine Award. He forced the resignation of Ronald Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor, Richard V. Allen, at the 1980 Republican National Convention. At the ''San Jose Mercury News'' in 1983–92, he investigated The Pentagon’s secret programs to dominate space. Susan Faludi began ''Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'' while working for Klein there. Returning in the 1990s to be ''Mother Jones''’ editor-in-chief, Klein directed exposés of Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, the top 400 political contributors in the U.S. and Donald Sipple, the Republicans' star image-maker. The investigative series on Speaker Gingrich led to his unprecedented public reprimand by the United States House of Representatives and a $300,000 fine. Klein made ''Mother Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Parker (economist)
Richard Parker (born November 5, 1946) is an economist from the United States. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Parker co-founded '' Mother Jones'' magazine and is on the editorial board of ''The Nation''. He wrote the books ''The Myth of the Middle Class'', ''Mixed Signals: the Future of Global Television News'', and ''John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics''. Parker has held Marshall, Rockefeller, Danforth, Goldsmith, and Bank of America fellowships; and is lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he teaches courses on modern macroeconomic policy, as well as on the role of religion in American politics and public policy. In June 2008, Parker was elected the 26th President of the liberal political advocacy group Americans for De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jacobs (activist)
Paul Jacobs (August 24, 1918 – January 3, 1978) was a left-wing populist activist, journalist, and co-founder of '' Mother Jones'' magazine. In 1966, he signed a tax resistance vow to protest the Vietnam War. In 1968, Jacobs was the nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party for the U.S. Senate from California. He received 1.31% of the vote. He is the subject of the 1980 political documentary '' Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang'', which details his investigation into government cover-up of the health hazards related to nuclear weapons testing Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of Nuclear explosion, their explosion. Nuclear testing is a sensitive political issue. Governments have often performed tests to si ... in 1950s Nevada. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Paul 1918 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers American activist journalists American investigative jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild ( ; born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer. His best-known works include ''King Leopold's Ghost'' (1998), ''To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918'' (2011), '' Bury the Chains'' (2005), '' The Mirror at Midnight'' (1990), ''The Unquiet Ghost'' (1994), and '' Spain in Our Hearts'' (2016). Biography Adam Hochschild was born in New York City. His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent; his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was of English and Scottish descent and the daughter of pioneering art historian Allan Marquand, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force. His German-born paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild co-founded the mining firm American Metal Company. Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Labor
Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation worldwide, although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, and some forms of work undertaken by Amish children, as well as by Indigenous children in the Americas. Child labour has existed to varying extents throughout history. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, many children aged 5–14 from poorer families worked in Western nations and their colonies alike. These children mainly worked in agriculture, home-based assembly operations, factories, mining, and services such as news boys—some worked night shifts lasting 12 hours. With the rise of household income, availability of schools and passage of child labour laws, the inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
