Recently added articles from Mother Jones:
Is Your Eco-Label Lying?
Nov 01, 2009; ... Sure, it says it's green. But what's that really mean? YOUR SHAMPOO BOTTLE is covered with labels proclaiming that its contents are all natural, cruelty free, and biodegradable, but is that actually true? There are more than 300 eco-labels out there, and not all are created equal ....
On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Nov 01, 2009; ... On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear By Richard Ellis. Alfred A. Knopf. Polar bears are the cuddly mascots of our rapidly wanning world. But as Richard Ellis writes in this exhaustive work of natural and cultural history, we haven't always been so eager to save them ....
There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism
Nov 01, 2009; ... There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism By Constantine Pleshakov. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ever since Ronald Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech in 1987, many Americans have viewed it as the moment that precipitated the collapse ...
Jumping the Snark
Nov 01, 2009; ... ESSAY In an age of flash mobs, birthers, and fake pundits, is the prank dead? what's a good prank worth? How about $2 billion? That's how much Dow Chemical's stock value dipped in just 23 minutes on the morning of December 3, 2004, after its spokesman went on the bbc to announce ...
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
Nov 01, 2009; ... BOOKS Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal By Tristram Stuart. Norton. First, books and movies like Fast Food Nation and Food, Inc. turned dinner into a stomach-churning moral dilemma. Now, with his heroically researched Waste, British author and historian Tristram ...