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Interrogating Errol Morris The Oscar-winning filmmaker talks about turning his camera on Abu Ghraib for Standard Operating Procedure. Plus, the best political ads you never saw and why. —By Dave Gilson MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Morris on McNamara Chasing Ghosts: Documentarian Asks Abu Ghraib Guards Why They Did It Art of Abu Ghraib Torture and Truth Why the John Edwards Endorsement Doesn't Matter That Much With the Democratic race essentially done, Obama doesn't need to borrow Edwards' populist glow. And against McCain, Obama faces little competition in the most-populist category. —By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Is Clinton Staying In To Say, "I Told You So"? Clinton: Damn the Pundits, Full Speed Ahead What Next For Hillary Clinton Politics, Pandering, and Policy at the Pump John McCain and the Dictator Money Trail Republican presidential candidate John McCain will fire you for lobbying for Burma, but he'll still take your money. —By Jonathan Stein MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: McCain Fires Two Staffers Who Lobbied for Burma But Ignores Dirty Lobbying Past of His Top Aide George Bush: An Anchor Around McCain's Neck McCain's Pastor Problem: The Video Top Stories 1 2 3
Is Clinton Staying In To Say, "I Told You So"? Even though she won West Virginia, Hillary Clinton appears to have no chance of getting the nomination. Why trudge on? To bolster her case for 2012. —By David Corn Constant Sorrow It wasn't Toto Constant's human rights violations that finally landed the Haitian paramilitary leader in prison. It was mortgage fraud in Long Island. —By Bernice Yeung Primary Sources: The WWII Ration Book Water and energy rations may seem like an alien idea, but self-deprivation has a patriotic past. Here, an archival treasure trove of what was rationed in World War II. —By Casey Miner Meet Big Business' Favorite Granny With congressional Democrats moving to ban one of corporate America's most useful tricks, industry is fighting back with a 63-year-old widow who squeezed $281 out of Sears. —By Stephanie Mencimer Loaded for Bear Any day now the polar bear could be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Conservative groups are already plotting their response—and lawsuits are just the tip of the iceberg. —By Daniel Schulman What's Your Baby's Carbon Footprint? 8lbs, 21 inches, and 3,800 diapers worth of planet-pummeling joy. —By Kiera Butler and Dave Gilson African Women Making Change It's like the old days of the women's movement in the U.S. and the informal consciousness-raising get-togethers that blew the collective mind of my generation. —By Ann Jones, TomDispatch McCain's Pastor Problem: The Video In a taped sermon, the preacher McCain calls a "spiritual guide" calls on America to see the "false religion" of Islam "destroyed." Still, the candidate won't reject Rod Parsley's endorsement. —By David Corn When Chick Flicks Get Knocked Up Is the new fertility-movie genre feminist or conservative? —By Alissa Quart The World at 350 We're the ones who kicked global warming off; now, the planet is starting to take over the job. —By Bill McKibben Power Q&A: Stewart Brand The Long Now futurist and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog talks about why it's time to rebrand nukes. —By Kiera Butler Dispatches from a Nightmare From a Burma blogger: "No electricity means no water...People don’t know whether to pray for rain (no roofs) or not for water." More excerpts from the world press on Cyclone Nargis. —By Laura McClure Put a Tyrant in Your Tank You thought ExxonMobil was bad? Meet the new kings of crude. —By Joshua Kurlantzick Clinton: Damn the Pundits, Full Speed Ahead The morning after North Carolina and Indiana, the Clinton campaign signaled it would fight on. But her only real option is going nuclear. —By David Corn The United States of Guilt by Association Once upon a time there was a place quite inspiring, until a certain campaign did turn so conniving. —By Mark Fiore What Next for Hillary Clinton Tuesday night, conventional wisdom in the media seemed to congeal around the idea that Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee. That leaves Hillary Clinton with three options. —By Jonathan Stein When Is "Tough Love" Torture? A new talk or behavioral therapy, even for children, can be introduced and sold by anyone without being vetted by any government agency. —By Maia Szalavitz America Out of Gas How rising oil prices are obliterating America's superpower status. —By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Contractors Gone Wild Theft, hookers, melting down Iraqi gold to make cowboy spurs—all in a day's work for private military contractors in Iraq? —By Bruce Falconer Politics, Pandering, and Policy at the Pump And the winner of the Obama-Clinton gas tax battle is... —By Jonathan Stein The Air Force Above All We rarely stop to think of the asymmetrical advantages enjoyed by the military—the overwhelming advantage in firepower, mobility, and technology. This has created what can only be called an empathy gap. —By William J. Astore, Mother Jones Wins National Magazine Award Think Academy Awards, red carpet, black tie. In the magazine world, top honors come not as Oscars, but as Ellies, and they're awarded by the American Society of Magazine Editors. —By Elizabeth Gettelman Photo Essay: The Dying Newsroom After the latest round of layoffs left the San Jose Mercury News office empty as a morgue, a newspaper designer photographed what remained. Willie Horton Redux An attack ad targeting Barack Obama raises a question: Can anyone with doubts about capital punishment, especially a black guy, become president? —By James Ridgeway MoJo Convo: Pro-Nuke? Anti-Nuke? We asked a futurist, a MoJo writer, a No Nukes activist, and a weapons security expert to debate nuclear energy this week. They are; join in. The Handcuffs of 1968 Forty years after the student protests at Columbia, that radical April day remains etched in memory. —By Glenn Frankel Powering Down the Patriot Act In the wake of another damaging report detailing the bureau's abuse of its data-gathering power, Congress is seeking to limit the use of national security letters. —By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium Rev. Wright: A Neverending Cross for Obama to Bear Angry over his portrayal in the media, Jeremiah Wright is firing back in a way that it is politically harmful to the most famous member of his church: Barack Obama. —By David Corn Supreme Court Upholds Voter ID Law In the most high-stakes voting-rights case since Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Indiana's hotly contested voter-fraud law—and similar measures that could disenfranchise voters. —By Stephanie Mencimer Clapping Along With Bush at the White House Correspondents' Dinner While Washington insiders yukked it up with the president at the annual press corps prom, our man on the scene wondered why he didn't get the joke. —By David Corn more...				Obama Attack Vid: Flag Flag Flllaaaaag Why the John Edwards Endorsement Doesn't Matter That Much Sudan: An Example of Why Cindy McCain Must Release Her Tax Returns President Bush in Israel John McCain and the Dictator Money Trail ACLU Releases New Detainee Docs Not Quite Ringing Polar Bears Win Protection McCain Recycles His Green Image...From MoJo? Contempt in Court more... Htein Lin by Toastyoneuk Htein Lin with one of his paintings made while in a Burmese political prison. Submit a photo RE: Put a Tyrant in Your Tank The underlying feeling I get from the article is jealousy. Mr. Kurlantzick creates a mood that is angry that the US no longer has the power it used to have over these countries and is now the beggar rather than the master. He attacks Chavez for supposedly consolidating his power by purchasing arms and helicopters despite the fact that he was democratically elected and refused to force his constitutional changes on the population when he lost the referendum. Posted by: Matt Stancheck May 12, 2008 10:22 AM Interrogating Errol Morris Power Q&A: Bill Weihl Breaking the Efficiency Gridlock Bottom of the Barrel Power Q&A: Amory Lovins Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee Power Q&A: Jamie Hyneman The Greenback Effect The Green-Belt Movement The Generation Gap Spinning the Atom Mr. Match.com Pimps Solar Scrubbing King Coal Scenes From the Tar Wars Small-town America's Green Lifeline Pork Power States Porn Marketer Goes Solar Having made millions from Match.com and Sex.com, Gary Kremen has an impressive record in spotting cash-crop trends. But his newest project, an attempt to "bring solar to mass market," may actually do some good in the world. Kremen's Clean Power Finance seeks to boost solar energy by linking installation contractors with financing. And what about government incentives for solar? Tell congressional leaders how you feel about clean-energy tax incentives here.