Women’s Work: My Barrier-Breaking Early Years at Mother Jones ^18.7%

Mother Jones - By Deirdre English - 6/25/2026, 11:30 AM

Halo Effect 18.9% - Biased Writer Voice 17% - Hasty Generalization 15.8%

As I page through colorful old copies of the magazines from my eight years at Mother Jones, memories start firing. I came on board as an editor in 1979, just as we were moving into the loft space Rolling Stone vacated when it fled to New York, supposedly because founder Jann Wenner’s then-spouse had a mortal fear of the Big One. Those... more