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Editors' Note
Jul 01, 2008; Bauerlein, Monika; Jeffery, Clara ... WHEN WE TOOK the reins of this magazine nearly two years ago, the press response was not altogether kind. Two editors obviously meant a "power vacuum," wrote Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle. TVA female editors? "Cue the cat reorws ancr hisses!" snarked the New York Press' Hype ...
Backtalk
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Amped Up As a long-tenn energy-field professional, I was glad to see Mother Jones taking a more balanced view than that all can be solved with wind, solar, and conservation. How can we double electric usage and eliminate coal? Via an all-out nuclear power program. Nothing else can ...
CONSPIRACY WATCH: TEDDYGATE
Jul 01, 2008; Gilson, Dave ... THE CONSPIRACY: Most Americans mistakenly think that Watergate is synonymous with President Richard Nixon's abuse of presidential power. But the real scandal wasn't a Republican White House run amok. Rather, the true outrage was a Democratic Congress that used an investigative witch-hunt to ...
turning carbon into gold
Jul 01, 2008; Harkinson, Josh ... AN INCONVENIENT POOP Noting that contributing to global warming would be "ironic, not to mention wrong," the producers of An Inconvenient Truth announced in June 2006 that they had given $496.80 to NativeEnergy, a well-regarded carbonoffset company. The firm, in turn, said the movie was ...
Location, Location
Jul 01, 2008; Wysham, Daphne ... A quick lesson in how offsets can backfire YOU DON'T HAVE to leave the United States for an object lesson in how an emissions offset system can go wrong. Consider Vernon, California: The tiny city and its neighboring communities have some of the highest air pollution levels in the Los ...
shalom, hamas
Jul 01, 2008; Rozen, Laura ... THE MAN WHO KNEW ENOUGH At first glance, Eiraim Halevy seems an unlikely champion of the virtues of engaging terrorists. The former chief of the Mossad, perhaps the world's most paranoia-inducing intelligence service, Halevy helped negotiate Israel's historic 1994 peace treaty with ...
bush to cops: drop dead
Jul 01, 2008; Falconer, Bruce ... SHOP THE VIOLENCE In a warehouse on the outskirts of the rural Shenandoah Valley town of Fishersville, Virginia, it didn't take long to spot what I was looking for. There were plenty of guns lined up neatly on display tables, everything from Civil War-style muskets to handguns to hunting ...
NOTES ON CAMP
Jul 01, 2008; Butler, Kiera ... Goodbye, crafts and color wars. Hello, explosives and Dianetics. Some summer camps for kids with very specialized interests. Lil' Angels Kids Spa Camp (Newark, Delaware) Activities: Etiquette, modeling, mani/pedi, and facial skills in a "magical milieu." Plus: "Limousine ...
one man's trash...
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... UPDATE THIS SPRING, Mother Jones broke the news that Beckett Brown international, a DC-area private security firm managed by former secret Service agents, spied on environmental groups and other targets on behalf of corporate clients using a range of dubious tactics, from dumpster diving ...
Inappropriations
Jul 01, 2008; Beckel, Michael ... Your tax dollars at rest Last December, Congress got around to finishing the federal budget In addition to the usual raft of earmarks, tucked into the final 1,400-plus-page spending bill were scores of blind items that specify where its $555 billion can't go. The reverse earmarks ranged ...
Magna Cum MoJo
Jul 01, 2008; Mencimer, Stephanie ... UPDATE IN THE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003 issue, Mother Jones ran an article I wrote about the impact of President Bush's domestic policies on a small town in North Carolina. The piece told the story of Sam Jefferson, a single father laid off after 30 years at a local textile factory; the ...
Forever Young
Jul 01, 2008; Butler, Kiera ... Adventures in not acting your age 11% of the world's population is over 60. By 2050, 22% will be. Nearly 2/3 of all the human beings who have ever lived past the age of 65 are alive today. 63% of senior-center directors want to take "senior" out of their programs' ...
Smoke & Mirrors
Jul 01, 2008; Morris, Jim ... WARNING: Concealing product dangers and funding of science by industry may be hazardous to the health of hundreds of thousands of workers. THE SHAKING IN Jeffrey Tamraz's right hand began in 2001. It was intermittent, so he paid it little mind. A six-foot, 260-pound bear of a man, he'd ...
march of the tourists
Jul 01, 2008; Whitty, Julia ... Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand? If not for the wind, it would be another hot day in Antarctica. But the 20 knots blasting around the shoulders of Penguin Island are stripping us of sweat and what feels like our clothes. I'm shivering hard, ...
December Surprise
Jul 01, 2008; Galbraith, James K ... Is the GOP cooking the books to avoid recession till after Election Day? BY JAMES K. GALBRAITH Is the worst over? Are we on the road to recovery? Will the next president take office against a backdrop of economic improvement, as Bill Clinton did in 1993? Or has something deeper and more ...
SLAMMED
Jul 01, 2008; Gonnerman, Jennifer ... We are locking up 1 in every 100 American adults-and going bankrupt in the process. The number first appeared in headlines earlier this year: Nearly one in four of all prisoners worldwide is incarcerated in America. It was just the latest such statistic. Today, one in nine African ...
Where Credit Is Due
Jul 01, 2008; Prins, Nomi ... 1913: Federal Reserve Act creates national banking system. 1914: Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits unfair or deceptive business practices. 1933: With memories of 1929 stock crash still fresh, Glass-Steagall Act separates "commercial banks" focusing on consumer activities ...
Foreclosure Phil
Jul 01, 2008; Corn, David ... Would you trust the man who broke America's financial system to fix it? John McCain does. BY DAVID CORN Who's to bame for the biggest financial catastrophe of our time? There are plenty of culprits, but one candidate for lead perp is former Sen. Phil Gramm. Eight years ago, as part of a ...
WORST OF THE WORST
Jul 01, 2008; Sterngold, James; Laufer, Peter; Phillips, Jen ... California's hard lessons in how not to run a prison system BY JAMES STERNGOLD Early on a bright, chilly January morning, Donald Specter walks into a soaring, wood-paneled federal courtroom in San Francisco. Standing before a judge in the nearly empty chamber, Specter begins to ...
TAMING OF THE SCREWS
Jul 01, 2008; Abramsky, Sasha; Winter, Caroline ... Even California's powerful prison guards' union thinks more prisons are a bad idea. BY SASHA ABRAMSKY "Five Years ago, I had a lock on things," says Mike Jimenez, the president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. With his sunglasses, slicked-back hair, and trimmed ...