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Clara Jeffery

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Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones. ASME board. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Mostly on the vastly superior Bluesky now.

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Punching above our weight

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By Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery Verified
| Mother Jones Verified
It’s tough sometimes, when you’re a modestly sized, nonprofit newsroom, to look at the big dogs in journalism—the New York Times or CNN, with their thousands of journalists, or storied magazines like the New Yorker and the Atlantic—and not feel hopelessly outgunned. They can swarm dozens of journalists on a single story, or pay some $12,000 to duplicate a certain New York mayor’s luxe travel experience. They have fleets of publicists to make sure every success is amplified.
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Politics - Mother Jones

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By Clara Jeffery Verified, Pema Levy Verified, Julianne McShane Verified, Sonal Gupta
| Mother Jones Verified
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It’s Time for Soft Secession

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By Clara Jeffery Verified
| Mother Jones Verified
In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed. So why not, Draper argued, break it up into six new “startups,” a.k.a. states? Instead of two senators, we erstwhile “Californians” would get 12.
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