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Hellraisers: the Next Generation From the eco-MBA to the Christian hipster, college activism is alive and kicking—but what today's students care about might surprise you. —By Kiera Butler and Leigh Ferrara MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: The Handcuffs of 1968 Activism Timeline Activism Charts Shiny, Happy Activism Mission Creep: Mapping the Pentagon's Global Footprint Exclusive: In a yearlong project, Mother Jones investigated US military activity around the globe, country by country. Presenting our new primer of the post-Bush world order. MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Exclusive: Mapping the Pentagon's Global Footprint US Troops Retake the Dragon's Lair How to Stay in Iraq for 1,000 Years Brzezinski Talks Bases The Audacity of Hype? Is Barack Obama exaggerating when he compares his campaign to the great progressive moments in US history? We asked Pat Buchanan, Naomi Klein, and 18 more thinkers to answer that question; read their responses here. Later this fall, join Washington Bureau Chief David Corn for an online forum on the same topic. MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Why Barack Obama Is Still Your New Bicycle Barack Obama's Messiah Complex In a Speech on Patriotism, Obama Tries To Get Past the '60s Obama VP Pick Expected This Week Top Stories 1 2 3
John Lewis: John McCain's Wise Man? John McCain says he will consult Democratic Rep. John Lewis when he's president. That's news to Lewis. —By Jonathan Stein Audio: Welcome, Kevin Drum Six years after he first picked up his virtual pen, former Calpundit and Washington Monthly Political Animal Kevin Drum is joining our smart, fearless crew. —By Monika Bauerlein How to Burn the Speculators Why is the price of oil so high? Because the Bush administration did to the commodities market what it did to housing. —By James K. Galbraith Apocalypse Later A futurologist says our apathy to gradual change may bring about slow-motion apocalypse. —By John Feffer What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret? From Starbucks to Microsoft: a sampling of what US inmates make, and for whom. —By Caroline Winter The Problem with an Obama/Biden Ticket Senator Joe Biden may seem like a perfect VP pick for Obama, but will his plan for partitioning Iraq prove a dealbreaker? —By Jonathan Stein Six Questions About the Anthrax Case The Bush administration has increased the likelihood not just that terror will come to "the homeland," but that it will come from the homeland. —By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Beirut Dispatch: The Manic Peace Party Now that Hezbollah are heroes and Israel's returned Lebanon's prisoners, I'm not sure I can keep up with the all-night drinking. —By Eamon Kircher-Allen Why Carbon Offsets Backfire With a city motto of "Exclusively Industrial," the town of Vernon was already a pollution magnet. Then offsets made it worse. —By Daphne Wysham Meet the Grand Obama Party Lincoln Chafee and other prominent GOPers are lumbering toward the left—but at the grassroots, the "Republicans for Obama" movement has been growing for a while. —By Bruce Falconer Obama: Change Africa Believes In Traveling through Kenya and Tanzania, a Mother Jones writer finds locals rallying behind the man they see as the "tribal chief of the world." —By Jonathan Stein Tech-Doping With Speedo's $600 Swimsuits Is allowing wetsuit-style super-suits in the Olympics unfair to countries who can't afford them? —By Jen Phillips Is Perpetual War Our Future? Learning the wrong lessons from the Bush era. —By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist. Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person. A Mother Jones investigation. —By James Ridgeway, Daniel Schulman, and David Corn Private Contracting Games $300 million for the opening ceremonies? That's nothing! A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore Convicting California How not to run a prison system, as demonstrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Golden State. —By James Sterngold Photo Essay: China's Smog Medal In Beijing, Olympic athletes compete against pollution, not just each other. How did China's air get so toxic? —By James Whitlow Delano and Jacques Leslie Adventures in Aging Gracelessly Our stat-tastic youth tour, from the world's oldest porn star to bikini waxes for tweens —By Kiera Butler Probation Profiteers In Georgia's outsourced justice system, a traffic ticket can land you deep in the hole. —By Celia Perry Illusions of Victory: The American Military Crisis How the US did not reinvent war… but thought it did. —By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch A Senator Pushes for Facts on the NRA Mole Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) tries to get the NRA to say something—anything—about the MoJo gun mole expose. —By David Corn Why Barack Obama Is Still Your New Bicycle Meme master Mathew Honan explains BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com. —By Jen Phillips The Waste-Pickers of Delhi A carbon-credit-generating incinerator may put the original Delhi recyclers out of business. —By Daphne Wysham Don't Know Much About History The Pentagon looks back to four great empires for tips on how to rule the world. —By Justin Elliott Civil Rights Groups Defending Predatory Lenders: Priceless What does Martin Luther King Jr. have to do with payday lenders? —By Stephanie Mencimer Smarter Than You An all-new EPA theme song for 2008. Just follow the bouncing yellow ball and sing along. A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore Amerithrax: Case Closed? Does the suicide of the FBI's prime suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks mark the end of the saga, or just the beginning? —By Bruce Falconer Follow This Dime Why misgovernment was no accident in George W. Bush's Washington. —By Thomas Frank, TomDispatch The Hunt for Kurdish Oil Why do Bush-linked companies keep getting Kurdish-area oil concessions that bypass the Iraqi national government? —By Laura Rozen Hunting Season Is Open on Polar Bears' 'Threatened' Status Citing the work of a researcher who has received funding from Exxon, a group of conservative organizations have launched a legal attack on the polar bears' Endangered Species Act listing. —By Daniel Schulman 4.5 Billion Years in Provence Recent radioactive leaks in France provide a cautionary tale for America's "nuclear renaissance." —By James Ridgeway The Shawnee Redemption In Kansas, ex-cons build lake cabins, weld snowmobiles—and stay out of prison. What's the matter with the rest of the country? —By Justine Sharrock Blogging Behind Bars An immigrant drug lord lands in America's worst jail, and lives to blog about it. —By David Gelles Acronym Institute Check out the newest devices for both the military and civilians to enjoy. A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore 8 Tips for an Easier Prison Stay When you might want to feign mental illness in the pokey, and why you never enter someone's cell without permission. —By Peter Laufer Why Texas Still Holds 'Em Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants. —By Stephanie Mencimer The Wonder Twins Of Rikers Island For identical prison guards Sukari Barnes and Tajiri Swindell, corrections is a family affair. —By Emily Voigt Why Prisons Banned This Magazine What did—and didn't—get past Texas prison mail room censors last year. Will John McCain Make Exorcism a Campaign Issue? Potential McCain running mate Bobby Jindal once participated in an exorcism. Is America ready for a debate about the supernatural? —By David Corn Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration What happens when you lock up 1 in every 100 American adults? —By Jennifer Gonnerman Iraq Contract Fraud A GAO report estimates that the Army Material Command loses about $43 million each year providing free meals to contractors—the same ones that receive per diem food allowances. —By Bruce Falconer Blackwater Retreats? Blaming negative press coverage, the controversial security firm has signaled that it's pulling out of the security field. But there's more to the story. —By Dan Schulman San Quentin's Field of Dreams Squaring off against the San Quentin Giants, a baseball team that only plays home games. —By Andre Sternberg Ha, Wilderness! Yellowstone Circa 2011 An editorial cartoon by Jack Unruh shows why it's important to camp while you can. —By Jack Unruh MoJo Video: The Coca Stompers of Bolivia Here, men work for hours stomping coca leaves with water, gasoline, and chemicals to create a cocaine paste. —By Marco Vernaschi and Sebastiano Vitale White House Threatens Veto Over Expanded Intel Oversight Congress is tired of being kept in the dark on covert actions, but the Bush administration says a measure to increase congressional scrutiny is a no-go. —By Bruce Falconer Mad Men's Retro Trip The Emmy-nominated drama reminds us what things were like in 1960 and what they could be like again. —By Dave Wagner MoJo Photo Essay: Bolivia's Cocaine Trade In Bolivia, Evo Morales has tried to deliver on a populist revolution. But as impoverished peasants increasingly turn to the cocaine trade, will any hope of a better life be blown away? —By Marco Vernaschi and Patrick Symmes Semiautomatic for the People In which a MoJo reporter goes to a gun show in search of some serious firepower. With audio. —By Bruce Falconer more...				McCain Camp Responds to "Houses" Situation... Hilariously Howard Wolfson Contains Multitudes Of Suskind and Habbush Mia Farrow and Erik Prince Do Breakfast Obama Goes on the Air With McCain's Houses Obvious Policy Suggestion for Barack Obama It's Easy to Get Confused By John McCain's Houses Clinton "Whip Team" Organized to Slay PUMAs John McCain Does Not Know How Many Houses He Owns. This Is Not a Joke Murakami's Running Lags Behind more... Venice, 2007 by Ted Pushinsky Tourists doing their best to ignore a Gypsy beggar, Venice, 2007. Submit a photo RE: Film Review: Uncounted As the filmmaker for UNCOUNTED, I was surprised to see that critic Justin Elliott failed to actually review our film; instead, he spent almost the entire piece on one text graphic that quite literally took up just a few seconds of an 80 minute film. I guess I need to work on my filmmaking because it appears that Mr. Elliott slept through the rest of the movie. He could have written about the eyewitness accounts we had from whistleblowers - backed up by election experts - that revealed electronic voting machine security breaches, vote count manipulation, and illegal behavior by a major voting machine manufacturer which all threaten the integrity of our elections. He might also have written about the story of a computer expert who testified under oath that he was asked by a now-sitting congressman to program a voting machine to "flip votes" from one candidate to another. Or he might have written about one of any number of Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, elected officials, and rank and file voters we featured who are part of a growing movement in America that recognize, and are working hard to fix, an election system gone bad. Posted by: David Earnhardt August 17, 2008 1:36 PM US Troops Retake the Dragon's Lair America's Unwelcome Advances Mission Creep About This Package How to Stay in Iraq for 1,000 Years Brzezinski Talks Bases What Permanent Iraq Presence? My Bases Are Bigger Than Your Country More From the Experts Mission Creep: Table of Contents Homesick for Camp Justice Jesus Is Magic MoJo Video: Jesus Is Magic The Audacity of Hype? Update: Magna Cum MoJo The Stringer Bell School of Management Here at Mother Jones, smart, fearless journalism is what we do. And we rely on people like you to keep nonprofit, independent investigative journalism alive and kicking. 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