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54-559: “Party Headquarters affected me personally. We still carry within ourselves the attitudes of socialism – subordination and privileges, forcible eroticism, the rule of partocracy. […] Socialism is not over. We live in it even now. […] The book is brilliant, with icy threads running in the ink. […] We fellow writers prefer keeping silence about Chernobyl, the fire in the Party Headquarters, the Pioneer camps; at best we turn our stories into exportable pamphlets. Tenev has managed to break open forbidden locks.” (Marin Bodakov Culture ) “Black irony,

108-610: A "labor of love" that requires reader donations to sustain itself, while she covertly received revenue from affiliate advertising from Amazon. Tom Bleymaier, founder of a startup in Palo Alto, California, wrote a post on an anonymous Tumblr blog calling Popova out for her actions. Using his own calculations, Bleymaier extrapolated that Popova could make anywhere between $ 240,000 and $ 432,000 a year with these affiliate advertisements. This received much media attention from sources such as Reuters and PandoDaily . This incident has sparked

162-410: A chance to shape the magazine, and that many of the articles that were printed during his time as editor were articles that had already been commissioned by Deirdre English. After being fired in 1986, Moore sued Mother Jones for $ 2 million for wrongful termination, but settled with the magazine's insurance company for $ 58,000 —$ 8000 more than the initial offering. In December 2013, Mother Jones

216-583: A collection of encyclopedias. As recounted in interview to Geoff Wolinetz of Bundle.com , Popova first worked when she was about 8 years old, making the Bulgarian yarn folk art dolls called martenitsas , worn beginning on the first of March where Popova describes selling them on the street as children would sell drinks at a lemonade stand . Popova graduated from the American College of Sofia in Bulgaria,

270-527: A degree of personal anonymity, with emphasis on her writing rather than on herself. Popova has participated in amateur bodybuilding . She states in an interview that she "fell into" the world of bodybuilding during her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania when her dormitory's resident adviser recommended that she compete in a bodybuilding show, although she no longer competes. Mother Jones (magazine) Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo )

324-561: A finalist for 31 National Magazine Awards , winning seven times (including three times for General Excellence in 2001, 2008 and 2010). The Park Center for Independent Media named Mother Jones the winner of the fifth annual Izzy Award in April 2013, for "special achievement in independent media", for its 2012 reporting, including its analysis of gun violence in the United States , coverage of dark money funding of candidates, and release of

378-471: A month or a year? Am I able to provide enough additional context – historical background, related past articles, complementary reading or viewing material – or build a pattern around it to make it worth for the reader? When choosing material to publish on Brain Pickings, she aims to "share content that is meaningful. Often, it’s timeless." Popova also seeks out content that has narrative. As she states, "Curation

432-451: A more general debate on the Internet about whether or not affiliate advertisements are "sneaky" or "deceptive". Popova has since updated her donation page on Brain Pickings to acknowledge the fact that she receives income from affiliate advertisements. In 2012, Popova created The Curator's Code , a project (now suspended) by Popova with input from designer Kelli Anderson . The Curator's Code

486-517: A newspaper article entitled "Meet The Dapper Young KKK Leader With A Message Of Hope". Video game website Kotaku said the addition was "clearly a shot at Mother Jones and any other media outlet who decides to start getting cutesy about white supremacy ". In 2022, journalist and media critic Jesse Singal defended the story as a valuable example of investigative journalism and characterized its critics as misinformed, writing that "it's almost impossible to imagine any reasonable reader confusing it for

540-404: A night class to learn web design, took Brain Pickings online, and let the project grow organically. Popova describes the period of coming to the U.S. to Hannah Levintova of Mother Jones ; in this 2012 interview she states: I didn't immigrate. I'm here on a visa, and I'm not an American citizen. I don't know if you followed the ... situation in 2007 and 2008? ... Every year, the government has

594-646: A place where they have a sliver of a chance to survive. That determination for life should be celebrated, not criminalized. Drum has an attitude toward immigrants that is xenophobic and deeply embarrassing for Mother Jones ." In late 2017, journalist and columnist David Corn was accused of workplace sexual harassment by former staffers who alleged the columnist of engaging "...in inappropriate workplace behavior, including unwanted touching and rape jokes". These allegations were published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Daily Beast and Politico . Mother Jones conducted an internal investigation of

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648-670: A puff piece." Singal cited the social media response to the article as an example of what he saw as an increasing problem of slander against journalists, concluding that "the Twitter gauntlet consistently destroys good journalism." In August 2017, journalist and Mother Jones contributor Glenn Greenwald criticized an article published by the magazine titled "Are People Disgusted By the Homeless?" by Kevin Drum, which Greenwald asserts uses dehumanizing stereotypes of homeless people. Kevin Drum would again be

702-480: A secondary school, in 2003. She relocated to attend the University of Pennsylvania , where she earned a degree in communications, though for years, up to 2012, her grandmother had wanted her to get an MBA . Popova paid for her tuition by working four part-time jobs on top of a full college course load: as an advertising representative for The Daily Pennsylvanian , as an intern for a local writer, as an employee for

756-414: A security firm that spied on environmental groups for corporations. Winner of the 2005 and 2006 "People's Choice" Webby Award for politics, MotherJones.com has provided extensive coverage of both Gulf wars, presidential election campaigns, and other key events of the last decade. Mother Jones began posting its magazine content on the Internet on November 24, 1993, the first general interest magazine in

810-520: A state, California, that just decided to raise the minimum wage to $ 10." Following the publication of the article, Mother Jones announced that it would reform its budget to provide fellows with equivalent to California's minimum wage. According to Davis, a former intern alleged that they were advised by the company's human resources department to register for food stamps. The magazine was subject of controversy regarding an October 2016 article about white supremacist figure Richard B. Spencer titled, "Meet

864-716: A subject of controversy in July 2019, when Naomi Lachance of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting criticized Drum's handling of the Wayfair Walkout in a blog post titled "I Don't Understand the Wayfair Walkout". The Wayfair Walkout was a planned protest action taken by workers and employees of the furniture company to express their opposition to the companies contracting with ICE and other government agencies involved in detainment of suspected undocumented immigrants. In response to news of

918-550: A trio of friends organized a conference modeled after the American TED Talks , which they called "TEDxBG". Popova further describes the outcome of the events—her eventual visa receipt—to Mother Jones : "When the application process lightened up... I moved to LA—which I really resented more than anyone’s ever resented a city in the history of resenting cities. And now I’m finally in New York, and I’m here to stay." As of 2012, she

972-536: A video of Mitt Romney stating that 47 percent of the people of the United States see themselves as victims and are dependent on the government. In August 2013, Mother Jones ' co-editors Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery won the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing . Also in 2010, Mother Jones won the Online News Association Award for Online Topical Reporting, and in 2011 won

1026-405: A visa quota—they will give, say, 65,000 H1-B work visas for foreigners who are going to work in the country for an American company. And so, normally, they would open up the application process, and the quota would run out in the first three weeks... So, after graduation, I had a job [lined up], and we applied for that visa, but that was the year “Visagate” happened: The first day of applications, for

1080-597: A work-study job at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts , and as a staff member for a small start-up advertising agency in Philadelphia. In 2005, while Popova worked at an advertising agency, she noticed that her co-workers were circulating information within the advertising industry around the office for inspiration. However, Popova thought creativity was better sparked with exposure to information outside of

1134-498: Is a code of conduct for curators on the web to use. This proposed method is an attempt to codify source attribution on the internet to ensure that the intellectual labor of information discovery is honored. Under the code, the "via" symbol indicates direct discovery, where the "hat tip" symbol indicates an indirect link of discovery. The Curator's Code was controversial, and received mixed responses. The announcement of this project elicited feedback from one blogger who "worr[ied] about

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1188-449: Is a form of pattern recognition – pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view." Popova publishes this information in tweet form when she does not have much to add. On the other hand, she publishes this as blog posts when she feels she can deepen the subject with historical background or additional materials. Maria Popova has received numerous instances of media recognition for her work. In 2012, she

1242-618: Is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news , commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics , 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

1296-599: Is a story about science, the poetry of existence, and is "inspired by a beloved young human" in Popova's own life. She is co-editor of A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader , published by Enchanted Lion Books in 2018. In Figuring , which appeared at No. 5 on the New York Times bestseller list upon publication, Popova examines connections between a variety of scientists, writers, and artists, many of them women, and how they created meaning in their lives. Figuring won

1350-418: Is most probably due to the peculiar topics and to the clear and easy to apprehend language of the writer.” ( Maria Popova Politics ) Maria Popova Maria Popova ( Bulgarian : Мария Попова ; born 28 July 1984) is a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and for

1404-685: Is named after Mary Harris Jones , known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, socialist advocate, and ardent opponent of child labor . 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 years included Adam Hochschild , Paul Jacobs , Richard Parker , Deborah Johnson, Jeffrey Bruce Klein , Mark Dowie, Amanda Spake, Zina Klapper, and Deirdre English . According to Hochschild, Parker, "who worked as both editor and publisher, saw to it that Mother Jones took

1458-701: The Utne Reader Independent Press Award for General Excellence. In 2017, Mother Jones won the Magazine of the Year award from the American Society of Magazine Editors . In addition to stories from the print magazine, MotherJones.com offers original reported content seven days a week. During the 2008 presidential election campaign, MotherJones.com journalist David Corn was the first to report John McCain's statement that it "would be fine with [him]" if

1512-446: The OPT [Optional Practical Training]—which entitles you to a year’s worth of work with a company within the scope of your major. We tried again in 2008, and same thing—the whole envelope got returned unopened. So, I had to leave the country! I went back to Bulgaria for a year. Popova describes returning to Bulgaria in 2008 in interview to the Bulgarian news journal Capital , and how she and

1566-506: The smell of fresh-cut grass behind your best friend’s house when you were 18 and first heard that song." Popova also has various partnerships with prominent organizations. She is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. Additionally, Popova serves as the editorial director at the higher education social network Lore , run by Noodle. She edits Explore , a partnership site with the Noodle educational search company. Popova filters through

1620-552: The 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Science and Technology category. In addition to running The Marginalian (formely known as Brain Pickings), Popova has a number of side projects. She maintains a Twitter account, and a newsletter. In 2012, she created the "Literary Jukebox", a sub-site where she matches quotes from books with songs. "Music, for me, is an enormous trigger of mnemonic associations – of time, place, mood, emotion,

1674-593: The Dapper White Nationalist Riding the Trump Wave", which was interpreted as presenting Spencer in a positive light in contrast to his promotion of violent, racialist views. In response to the controversy, Mother Jones deleted a tweet promoting the article, in addition to removing the word "dapper" from the title of the article. The 2017 video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus featured

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1728-533: The United States military were stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years"—that what should be assessed is not their simple presence but how many casualties are being suffered. McCain said the presence of U.S. forces in South Korea , Japan, Europe, Bosnia and other countries is a “generally accepted policy of America’s multilateralism”. Also in 2008, MotherJones.com was the first outlet to report on Beckett Brown International,

1782-427: The best of what could be learned from the world of commercial publishing". Russ Rymer was named editor-in-chief in early 2005, and under his tenure the magazine published more essays and extensive packages of articles on domestic violence (July/August 2005), and the role of religion in politics (December 2005). In August 2006, Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery were promoted from within to become co-editors of

1836-511: The blog Brain Pickings as an email sent each week to seven of her friends, now renamed The Marginalian. Krista Tippett in On Being describes it as "[n]ow a website, Twitter feed, and weekly digest... cover[ing] a wide variety of cultural topics: history, current events, and images and texts from the past." It includes several sections and has graphics, photographs, and illustrations in addition to written content. As of December 2012, The Guardian

1890-525: The country to do so. In the March/April 1996 issue, the magazine published the first Mother Jones 400, a listing of the largest individual donors to federal political campaigns. The print magazine listed the 400 donors in order with thumbnail profiles and the amount they contributed. MotherJones.com (then known as the MoJo Wire) listed the donors in a searchable database. In the 2006 election, MotherJones.com

1944-976: The editorial director at the higher education social network Lore , and has written for The New York Times , The Atlantic , Wired UK , and other publications. Since 2010, she has resided in Brooklyn , New York. She is the creator of "The Universe in Verse", a large-scale annual celebration of science and the natural world through poetry. Maria Popova was born on 28 July 1984 in Sofia , Bulgaria. Popova's parents are ethnic Bulgarians who, as noted by Bruce Feiler for The New York Times , "met as teenage exchange students in Russia ... [h]er father ... an engineering student who later became an Apple salesman ... her mother ... studying library science". In interview, Popova states that in childhood, one of her grandmothers often read to her from

1998-403: The first time in history, the government got three times their quota on the very first day. So, they panicked and thought the only thing to do was to make it a raffle for everyone that applied on the first day, and then automatically reject everyone after that. So, we’d filed for the first day, but I was in the two-thirds that didn’t get it, so the whole envelope got returned unopened. So then I got

2052-630: The health of the ocean (March/April 2006), and the magazine's massive Iraq War Timeline interactive database. As the magazine's first post–baby-boomer editors, Bauerlein and Jeffery used a new investigative team of senior and young reporters to increase original reporting, web-based database tools, and blog commentary on MotherJones.com. The cover of their first issue (November 2006) asked: "Evolve or Die: Can humans get past denial and deal with global warming?" In 2015, Bauerlein became CEO, and Jeffery became sole editor in chief. David Corn , former Washington editor for The Nation , became bureau chief of

2106-414: The industry one was familiar with. In an effort to stir creativity, she regularly sent emails to the entire office containing five things that had nothing to do with advertising, but were meaningful, interesting, or important. Because of the popularity of the emails, Popova felt that there was an "intellectual hunger for that sort of cross-disciplinary curiosity and self-directed learning." She enrolled in

2160-403: The large amounts of content she reads each day through a detailed selection process. When choosing content for Brain Pickings, she asks herself three things: Is it interesting enough to leave the reader with something – a thought, an idea, a question – after the immediate fulfillment of the self-contained reading or viewing experience? Is it evergreen in a way that makes it just as interesting in

2214-539: The magazine's newly established D.C. bureau in 2007. Other D.C. staff have included Washington Monthly contributing editor Stephanie Mencimer, former Village Voice correspondent James Ridgeway , and Adam Serwer from The American Prospect . Laurene Powell Jobs has donated to Mother Jones by way of her LLC, Emerson Collective . In December 2023, Mother Jones announced that it would be combining with The Center for Investigative Reporting . The merger took effect on February 1 2024. Mother Jones has been

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2268-406: The magazine. Bauerlein and Jeffery, who had served as interim editors between Cohn and Rymer, were also chiefly responsible for some of the biggest successes of the magazine in the past several years, including a package on ExxonMobil's funding of climate-change "deniers" (May/June 2005) that was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Public Interest reporting; a package on the rapid decline in

2322-473: The meaning of curation". In that blog post, Marco Arment stated that "codifying 'via' links with confusing symbols is solving the wrong problem". Most criticism of The Curator's Code voiced uncertainty about its ability to solve the problems of online attribution. Some critics argued that the problems of online attribution are not due to a lack of codified syntax, but rather due to the "economics and realities of online publishing". Popova has sought to maintain

2376-478: The reader’s best interests first – it turns them into a sellable eyeball, and sells that to advertisers. As soon as you begin to treat your stakeholder as a bargaining chip, you’re not interested in broadening their intellectual horizons or bettering their life. I don’t believe in this model of making people into currency. You become accountable to advertisers, rather than your reader. In 2013, Popova received criticism on how she championed her site to be "ad-free" and

2430-517: The staff, exploitation of interns, misinterpreting data about homeless people, and promotion of values that are perceived to be inconsistent with those of the magazine's namesake, Mother Jones . Michael Moore , who had owned and published the Flint, Michigan -based Michigan Voice for ten years, followed English and edited Mother Jones for several months, until he was fired for disputed reasons. Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard reported this

2484-428: The use of lexicon format, the documentary reminders – all this makes Party Headquarters one of the most influential books of the recent times. Reading this novel prevents us from cancelling the memories and from betraying our desire for freedom.” (Amelia Licheva Capital Light ) “Party Headquarters interprets a deeply personal story where the private, the intimate, is publicly exposed. The success of Party Headquarters

2538-448: The visual stylistics that accompany it. In 2006, she started the blog Brain Pickings , an online publication that she has fought to maintain advertisement-free. The blog, renamed to The Marginalian upon its 15th birthday in 2021, features her writing on books, the arts, philosophy, culture, and other subjects. In addition to her writing and related speaking engagements, she has served as an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, as

2592-420: The walkout, Drum wrote, "But isn't our whole complaint that these kids are being treated badly? Shouldn't we want companies to sell the government toothpaste and soap and beds and so forth? What am I missing here?" In response to these comments, Lachance wrote "In a cruel and violent world, full of exponentially increasing climate change, natural disasters, food shortages and wars, people cross borders in search of

2646-565: Was criticized for its labor practices regarding the employment of interns, as part of the Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program. The program allowed college students to enroll as "fellows" who would receive a monthly stipend of $ 1,000 while working for the magazine in San Francisco . Writer Charles Davis of Vice criticized this practice as exploitative noting that "a fellow [working] at Mother Jones earns less than $ 6 an hour in

2700-622: Was for refusing to print an article that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua —a view supported by The Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn , but denied by Hochschild and others at the magazine. Moore believes that he was fired because of his defiant reaction to the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings in Flint. Moore also felt that he did not have

2754-535: Was living in Brooklyn. If something interests me and is both timeless and timely, I write about it. Much of what is published online is content designed to be dead within hours, so I find most of my material offline. I gravitate more and more towards historical things that are somewhat obscure and yet timely in their sensibility and message. Popova has written for The Atlantic , Wired UK , GOOD , The Huffington Post , and NiemanLab . In 2006, she began

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2808-587: Was named number 51 of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company magazine . Popova was featured in 30 under 30 by Forbes as one of the most influential individuals in Media and was listed on “The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012 List” by Time magazine . Popova's work has also been spotlighted and profiled in publications such as The New York Times . Popova has been very vocal about her dislike for traditional advertising, and has repeatedly expressed her pride on being advertising-free: It doesn’t put

2862-516: Was reporting that the blog had "1.2 million readers a month and 3m page views". Anne-Marie Slaughter describes Popova's blog as "like walking into the Museum of Modern Art and having somebody give you a customized, guided tour." Popova is also author of Figuring , published by Random House in 2019., and The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story , published by Enchanted Lion Books in 2021, which

2916-402: Was the first to break stories on the use of robocalling , a story that TPM Muckraker and The New York Times picked up. The Iraq War Timeline interactive database, a continually updated interactive online project, was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2006. Throughout its circulation, Mother Jones magazine has been the subject of criticism regarding the editorial position of

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