Mother Jones
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Mother Jones is an independent, nonprofit magazine rooted in what it terms progressive political values and known for its investigative reporting. In general United States standards it is a magazine of Left-wing politics orientation. The winner of a 2001 National Magazine Award in General Excellence, Mother Jones has been nominated for National Magazine Awards twelve times and has won four times. With a paid circulation of 233,000 (the average for the first half of 2006), Mother Jones is the most widely read progressive publication in the United States. Monika Bauerlein and Clara ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Magazine
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Medium audience (100-500K) (English)
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National
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Neutral viewpoint
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Foundation for National Progress | nonprofit_organization | Managers: Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery
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San Francisco, CA, US
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Ezra Fox
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Sep 18, 2007 - 3:23 PM PDT
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The Price of Health Reform: Abortion Rights?
Will health care reform come at the cost of abortion rights? The Democrats? historic health care bill squeaked through the House on Saturday only after pro-life forces scored ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Is Obama Plotting To Shut Down the Internet?
The world is full of a lot of conservative anti-Obama craziness these days—Glenn Beck, the Birther movement, etc. But anti-immigration activist William Gheen might take the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Empire Strikes Back
AHIP, the insurance industry trade group, has apparently decided to hop off the healthcare reform bandwagon. After months of claiming that they were on board, they released a ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Obama on Climate: Is He Even Trying?
For those of us who care desperately about the climate, President Obama’s speech on Tuesday—the first to the world body by this most admired of world leaders—was a dud, ...via Mother Jones -
Obama's Speech: The Doctor Is In
Can a speech change a political dynamic? President Barack Obama and his political wizards obviously hope so. Together they came up with an address that at least on Wednesday ... -
Bush's Third Term?
It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or ...Posted by Subramanya Sastry -
Kennedy and Health Care, Then and Now
One of the great and bitter lessons of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's political career is also the most timely for House Democrats: The need to seize the political moment on ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Cowboys of Kabul
Although their circumstances looked dire, the Spiers were about to become millionaires. By May, Barbara Spier had filed the paperwork to form a new corporation called US ...via Mother Jones -
Sotomayor Slips Up
After three days of Senate confirmation hearings, we've learned a lot of things—none of them, of course, about Sonia Sotomayor. Instead, the hearings have clarified a great ...via Mother Jones -
The Patriot's Guide to Legalization
Maybe the war against pot is about to get a lot uglier. After all, in the 1920s, Prohibition gave us Al Capone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and that was over plain ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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Obama's Big Power Play
President Barack Obama likes to point out that when President Dwight Eisenhower built the federal highway system in the 1950s, he created a network that fueled postwar ...via NewsRack -
22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case
Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
On Tape: Bolton Backs Israeli Nuke Strike On Iran?
(Blog Post) During a little-noticed speech at the University of Chicago on Tuesday, John Bolton suggested a way to resolve the controversy over Iran?s nuclear program: Israel should ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
Lindsey Graham: Not a Nuclear Wussypants
When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for legislation last week to cap carbon emissions, he revived hopes that a cap-and-trade measure could pass the Senate this year. ...via Mother Jones -
We Geezers Got Our Single-Payer Plan. Now Go Get Your Own.
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Is Copenhagen Dead?
Is the Obama administration giving up on reaching a comprehensive international climate change agreement this year? A statement released on Friday by John Podesta, who headed ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Video: 20,000 Detergent Bottles Under the Sea
After a month spent studying the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a vortex of waste twice the size of Texas in the North Pacific Ocean where there's a 36-to-1 ratio of plastic ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Foreclosure Rescue Mirage
The problem is that the Obama administration gave mortgage servicers little more than a heads-up before rolling out its program, leaving companies to play catch-up once HAMP ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Obama's Afghanistan Contradiction
With the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama faces a contradiction. He says he wants to win the war but he will not commit to fighting for as long as that might take. ...via Mother Jones -
A Few Good Kids?
Recruiters hit pay dirt in 2002, when then-Rep. (now Sen.) David Vitter (R-La.) slipped a provision into the No Child Left Behind Act that requires high schools to give ...Posted by John Louden
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Environment (36), U.S. Economy (34), Obama Administration (33), Climate Change (28), Global Warming (22), Energy (21), Health Care (17), Finance (16), Money and Politics (16), War in Iraq (16), Presidential Election 2008 (16), Oil and Gas (15), Latin America (14), Bush Administration (13), Foreign Policy (13)...
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David Corn (27), Stephanie Mencimer (15), Marco Vernaschi (13), James Ridgeway (11), Jonathan Stein (10), Nick Baumann (10), Kevin Drum (10), Laura Rozen (8), Bill Mckibben (8), Bruce Falconer (7), Josh Harkinson (6), Nomi Prins (6), Daniel Schulman (5), Rachel Morris (5), Andy Kroll (4)...
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Special Report (82), Opinion (57), News Report (25), News Analysis (22), Comment (6), Interview (6), (5), Investigative Report (2)
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