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Foster published his first article for "Monthly Review", "Is Monopoly Capital an Illusion?", while in graduate school in 1981. He became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the "Monthly Review" editorial committee in 1989. Along with Robert McChesney, who had since their days at Evergreen College become a leading scholar of the political economy of the media, Foster joined Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff as a co-editor of "Monthly Review" in 2000. Two years later, he became president of the Monthly Review Foundation.