January/February 1996 Issue

The Interviews

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Illustrations by Victor Juhasz


Walter Truett Anderson
Eduardo Galeano
Donella Meadows
Paul Krugman

Edward Wolff
Laura D’Andrea Tyson
Lewis Lapham
Howard Gardner

Bob Woodward
Stewart Brand
Neil Postman
David Brower

Jeremy Rifkin
Francis Fukuyama
Betty Friedan
Patricia Ireland

Deborah Tannen
Robert Reich
William F. Buckley
Anthony Lewis

Lani Guinier
Camille Paglia
Bill McKibben
Patricia Schroeder

Gary Snyder
Maya Angelou

Not Illustrated:

Paul Erdman
Alice H. Amsden
Orville Schell
Adam Hochschild
Frank Viviano
Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and Gretchen Daily
Richard Trumka
Gary Chapman
Henry M. Levin
David Osborne
Jane Smiley
Marc Roberts
Daniel Yankelovich
Louis Menand
Joycelyn Elders

Celebrating Hellraisers:

Paul Wellstone
Gary Delgado
Barbara Dudley
Winona LaDuke

What’s Left:

Noam Chomsky
Pete Hamill
Todd Gitlin
Robert Scheer

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We just wrapped up a shorter-than-normal, urgent-as-ever fundraising drive and we came up about $45,000 short of our $300,000 goal.

That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June.

So we urgently need this specific ask, what you're reading right now, to start bringing in more donations than it ever has. The reality, for these next few months and next few years, is that we have to start finding ways to grow our online supporter base in a big way—and we're optimistic we can keep making real headway by being real with you about this.

Because the bottom line: Corporations and powerful people with deep pockets will never sustain the type of journalism Mother Jones exists to do. The only investors who won’t let independent, investigative journalism down are the people who actually care about its future—you.

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