The pair met as colleagues while working at Mother Jones magazine in San Francisco, and have been together for nearly 30 years.

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"There is always built into a lot of startups the mentality of the barbarians at the gate ... the disruptive nature that the startup ethos is supposed to be all about, " said Tasneem Raja, the digital-interactive editor for Mother Jones magazine.

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His story on extraordinary rendition for Mother Jones was part of a package of stories nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award.

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