Adam Hochschild

Board Member

Adam is a writer and was one of the cofounders of Mother Jones. He is the author of six books: Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son; The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey; The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin; Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels; King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa; and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. In 1997-98, he spent five months as a Fulbright lecturer in India, and he teaches a writing class at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

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4 Ways to Help Congo Escape the Cycle of Plunder
Mon Mar. 29, 2010 6:00 AM PDT

The Blood Diamonds Myth
Mon Mar. 29, 2010 3:04 AM PDT

Where Have All the Graveyards Gone?

The war that didn’t end war and its unending successors.

Tue May. 3, 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Congo's Curse of Riches

Why one of the world's richest countries is also one of its poorest.

March/April 2010 Issue

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Talks About His Quest to Make "<i>Roots</i> for the 21st Century"

The intellectual impresario talks about slavery, his quest to make "<i>Roots</i> for the 21st century," and the need for "moral revolution within the African American community."

Tue Mar. 13, 2007 11:00 PM PDT

A Pseudostate Is Born

The new Iraq doesn't measure up as a real country.

Mon Jun. 28, 2004 11:00 PM PDT

Against All Odds: How the British Anti-Slavery Movement Became the First Great Human-Rights Campaign

The first great human-rights campaign -- the movement to end slavery in the British Empire -- had no business succeeding. But the legacy of its extraordinary achievement lives on today.

January/February 2004 Issue

The First 25 Years

Mother Jones' founders envisioned a magazine devoted to a new brand of socially conscious journalism -- one that took on corporate as well as political power. Twenty-five years later, that mission remains as timely as ever.

May/June 2001 Issue

The Brick Master of Kerala

Laurie Baker is fighting India's rush to resemble the West by making beautiful buildings out of sustainable materials -- recycled bottles, clamshells, and mud.

July/August 2000 Issue

Shoot-Out in Marlboro Country (cont'd)
March/April 1996 Issue

Shoot-Out in Marlboro Country
March/April 1996 Issue

Slow Scan to Moscow
Sat May. 31, 1986 11:00 PM PDT

Dumping Our Mistakes on the World
November/December 1979 Issue

Inside the Mother Jones Pocketbook

An editor's reflections upon Mother Jones' second birthday.

Sun Jan. 1, 1978 12:00 AM PST