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American Independent Party and Independent: Wait, There's A Difference?
Fri Apr. 25, 2008 3:33 PM PDT

Bacteria Artist Off the Hook?
Thu Apr. 24, 2008 10:57 AM PDT

Carbonfund.org: Seattle Man Offsets Entire Life; Onion: Please Give Our Headline Back
Wed Apr. 23, 2008 1:00 PM PDT

Growing Up Nuclear: Author Kelly McMasters Tells Her Story
Tue Apr. 22, 2008 10:17 AM PDT

Happy Passover, Jimmy Carter
Fri Apr. 18, 2008 7:10 PM PDT

Gavin Newsom's San Francisco: The New Windy City?
Fri Apr. 11, 2008 6:51 PM PDT

Bright Lights, Green City
Wed Apr. 9, 2008 2:04 PM PDT

Botox Takes a Hit from Flailing Economy
Tue Apr. 8, 2008 4:28 PM PDT

Beyond Propaganda: New Republic Rolls Out BP-Sponsored Enviro Blog
Mon Apr. 7, 2008 5:20 PM PDT

Pentagon Greenlights Same-Sex Partner for Military Flight
Fri Apr. 4, 2008 6:10 PM PDT

Hillary's Prayer, Revisited
Fri Apr. 4, 2008 3:18 PM PDT

Congress Grants Too Much Authority, Then Tries to Take it Back... Again
Wed Apr. 2, 2008 4:25 PM PDT

Homeland Security Builds Fence to Enforce Law; Waives Law to Build Fence
Wed Apr. 2, 2008 1:00 PM PDT

Trees Cast Dark Shadow Over Solar Panels
Thu Mar. 27, 2008 3:33 PM PDT

Remix Manu Chao's New Song
Wed Mar. 26, 2008 1:39 PM PDT

HRC Says Wright Would Not Be Her Pastor; So Who Would Be?
Wed Mar. 26, 2008 11:56 AM PDT

McCain Has No Money; Obama Has No Debt: Weighing the Candidates' Campaign Coffers
Tue Mar. 25, 2008 7:05 PM PDT

Gender Bending Language
Mon Mar. 24, 2008 12:05 PM PDT

Philip Morris Cleans Up Its Act - By Genetically Modifying Tobacco
Thu Mar. 20, 2008 6:36 PM PDT

All the President's Staff
Thu Mar. 20, 2008 2:55 PM PDT

China Accuses Dalai Lama of "Sabotage," but Olympics Still On For Beijing
Tue Mar. 18, 2008 3:18 PM PDT

SXSW Dispatch: The Show Must Stop
Sun Mar. 16, 2008 5:55 PM PDT

SXSW Dispatch: That's Ludacris, Silly!
Sun Mar. 16, 2008 1:36 AM PDT

SXSW Dispatch: Don't Talk to Me About Music, Dammit
Sat Mar. 15, 2008 10:18 PM PDT

SXSW Dispatch: Lyrics Born is Funky McFunkerson
Sat Mar. 15, 2008 5:46 PM PDT

SXSW Dispatch: Blog Talk is Boring Talk
Sat Mar. 15, 2008 1:38 AM PDT

Is There Satanic Symbolism in the GOP's Logo?
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 12:00 PM PDT

Would English Be Eleganter Without Feminists?
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 11:15 AM PDT

SXSW Dispatch: Why Lou Reed Hates Mp3s
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 9:30 AM PDT

The SXSW Slog Begins
Thu Mar. 13, 2008 12:40 PM PDT

Times Calls Out Spitzer's Boo on Use of "Boo"
Thu Mar. 13, 2008 12:02 PM PDT

Obama Pandering Watch: We 'Should Never Fear to Negotiate' - Except With Hamas
Tue Mar. 4, 2008 10:33 AM PST

Mad, Mad Response to One Tortured Playlist
Mon Mar. 3, 2008 4:23 PM PST

Buckley's '69 Preview of a Pax Americana
Fri Feb. 29, 2008 5:01 PM PST

Comment Trolls Hit the Ahmadineblog
Thu Feb. 28, 2008 3:27 PM PST

Financial Aid at Top Private Universities May Be Kiss of Death for Public Schools
Tue Feb. 26, 2008 5:38 PM PST

The CIA's Constant Confesser: Michael Hayden Just Can't Stop Admitting Stuff
Fri Feb. 22, 2008 12:34 PM PST

Google Earth Lands in Hot Water in (Surprise) the Middle East
Wed Feb. 13, 2008 4:56 PM PST

Text Your Way to Sustainable Seafood
Wed Feb. 13, 2008 11:52 AM PST

Healthcare as a National Security Issue
Tue Feb. 12, 2008 5:03 PM PST

Is Lucy Liu the New All-American Girl?
Mon Feb. 11, 2008 3:50 PM PST

Waterboarding: Not So Illegal After All?
Fri Feb. 8, 2008 6:28 PM PST

CIA Director Says We Waterboarded Only Three People - Then Based One-Fourth of Our Intelligence on What They Said
Thu Feb. 7, 2008 11:30 AM PST

CPAC's Coulterkampf
Wed Feb. 6, 2008 10:44 AM PST

George Bush, Tree Hugger
Mon Feb. 4, 2008 12:00 PM PST

Huckabee in San Francisco
Fri Feb. 1, 2008 5:05 PM PST

Dying for a Lawyer: Life on Alabama's Death Row
Fri Feb. 1, 2008 1:08 PM PST

FEMA Creates Its Own Disaster
Wed Jan. 30, 2008 5:18 PM PST

The State of Our Union
Mon Jan. 28, 2008 6:55 PM PST

$1 Ethanol Isn't Innovation, It's a Commitment to Business as Usual
Fri Jan. 25, 2008 3:10 PM PST

Mother Jones Staff Picks: Best Fiction 2012

A dozen recent novels and collections you don’t want to miss.

Mon Dec. 24, 2012 4:11 AM PST

Mother Jones Staff Picks: Best Movies and Television, 2012

The films, TV shows, and assorted other media we really liked this year.

Sun Dec. 23, 2012 4:11 AM PST

Mother Jones Staff Picks: Best Nonfiction 2012

16 great books you don't want to miss.

Sat Dec. 22, 2012 4:11 AM PST

Mother Jones Staff Picks: Best Music 2012

Seventeen new albums (and a few singles) we really liked this year.

Wed Dec. 19, 2012 4:01 AM PST

Die, Little Drummer Boy, Die

Girl Talk, Weezer, OK Go and MoJo readers recommend holiday music that Does. Not. Suck.

Mon Dec. 6, 2010 4:31 AM PST

Mother Jones' 2007 Media Picks

A few of our favorite books and films from the past year.

Mon Dec. 31, 2007 1:00 AM PST

Articles of War: Wikipedia's Silliest Flame Wars
January/February 2007 Issue

More Equal Than Others

How humans interact with animals.

Tue Oct. 31, 2006 7:29 PM PST

Extra Credit: Campus Activism 2006

Our 13th annual roundup of campus activism

September/October 2006 Issue

Made in Palestine
Wed May. 11, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Made in Palestine
Wed May. 11, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Made in Palestine
Wed May. 11, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: Stephen L. Bing

Producer, Shangri-La Entertainment <br />Los Angeles, California

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: Peter L. Buttenwieser (with Terry A. Marek)

Owner, Peter L. Buttenwieser & Associates, <br />Philadelphia, PA

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: Jackson T. Stephens (with Mary Anne)

Chairman, Stephens Group Inc. <br />Little Rock, Arkansas

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: Stephen Distler and Roxanne Kendall

Managing Director, Warburg Pincus <br />Princeton, New Jersey

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: George Soros

Chairman, Soros Fund Management <br />New York, New York

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: Agnes Varis (with Karl Leichtman)

President, Agvar Chemicals <br />New York, NY

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Profile: Maconda Brown O'Connor and Ralph S. O'Connor

Social Worker <br />Houston, Texas

Mon Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Top 10 Activist Campuses

Tehran's Number One! At least, they are in our annual roundup of the top activist campuses.

September/October 2003 Issue

Blood and Treasure

After weeks of public evasion, the Bush administration is finally coming clean about the cost of the American-led occupation of Iraq. Well, sort of, in that vague Bush style.

Thu Aug. 28, 2003 12:00 AM PDT

The Top 50 Political Donors of 2000

As money continues to pour into this year's political races at a record pace, we've been busy updating the Mother Jones 400, our list of the most generous individual donors in federal elections.

Wed Oct. 18, 2000 12:00 AM PDT

Media Jones
May/June 2000 Issue

Winks and Giggles at the State Department

C-SPAN addicts listen up. There are laughs to be found in amid the doublespeak of your average daily State Dept. press briefing.

Thu May. 27, 1999 12:00 AM PDT

HOT!media

Further resources for reading, listening, and advanced hellraising.

July/August 1997 Issue

Big Fat Lies

Media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting spent two years listening to--and checking up on--Rush's claims. Below, a selection of the Big Blowhard's twistings of the truth.

May/June 1995 Issue

The Second's Missing Half

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

January/February 1994 Issue