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Obama's Grand Speech: Reason for Hope It was a historic speech on a historic night—in a remarkable setting. Barack Obama's speech matched the moment. —By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Gore's Speech: A Reminder of What's Missing Obama's Speech Tonight: What to Expect? On Night Three, The Dems Finally Gain Some Momentum Bill Clinton's Still Got It: A Potential Game-Changer for Obama? Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, Homelessness Looms Where are Katrina evacuee families supposed to go once FEMA kicks them out? A trailer park tale continues. —By Deepa Fernandes MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Mother Jones' Full Coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath Toxic Trailers Redux: When Did FEMA Know? Storm Warning: An Investigative Series Roundtable Review: Trouble the Water MoJo Video: In Pursuit of High Rollers and Hennessy Why can't government ethics watchdog Nancy Watzman get into the Democratic National Convention's smoke-filled back rooms? Plus, the Denver "toothpick rule" explained. —By Jonathan Stein Edited and Produced by Alexandra Bezdikian MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: On Opening Night, The Dems Go Warm and Fuzzy The Status of Pork Inappropriations: Your Tax Dollars at Rest Top Stories 1 2 3
MoJo Video: In Pursuit of High Rollers and Hennessy Why can't government ethics watchdog Nancy Watzman get into the Democratic National Convention's smoke-filled back rooms? Plus, the Denver "toothpick rule" explained. —By Jonathan Stein Edited and Produced by Alexandra Bezdikian On Night Three, The Dems Finally Gain Some Momentum Bill Clinton and (gasp!) John Kerry combined for the Democrats' best night yet. —By David Corn Bible Thumper Who's going to earn electoral salvation by getting the God vote? A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore The Chinavore's Dilemma Pathogenic snacks. Deadly dog chow. Toxic seafood. Why is the FDA looking the other way on Chinese food imports? —By Joshua Kurlantzick Just a Dream at Twilight (Click for more...) archive... New Poverty Data Induces Clinton Nostalgia Recently released census info confirms that all future economic progress will be measured by whether the country can get back to the prosperity of 1999. —By Stephanie Mencimer Afghan Women Behind Closed Doors Today, Afghanistan is the only country in the world where women outdo men when it comes to suicide, and a Taliban offensive this spring will only worsen conditions for women. —By Ann Jones MoJo Video: Meet Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com Nate Silver invented the leading statistical method for forecasting the future performance of baseball players. Now he's predicting election outcomes. Turns out he's good at that, too. —By Nick Baumann A Clear Message from Hillary: It's About Obama, Not Me Hillary Clinton, on the second night of the Democratic convention and in a much-anticipated speech, offered a loud and clear message to her supporters: get behind Barack Obama. —By David Corn On Opening Night, The Dems Go Warm and Fuzzy The convention starts with the Obama campaign defining Michelle as, well, wonderful. But where's the case against McCain? —By David Corn 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. Honey, I Got the Earmark For Republican Rep. Mike Turner, federal pork is a family affair. —By Ryan Grim Revenge of the Hillary Hold-Ons Hillary Clinton-backers plan to take to Denver's streets for a Tuesday march. Can they create enough sound and fury to make it appear that there is significant dissent within the Democratic ranks? —By David Corn Taking the Safe Route In Joe Biden, Obama picks a smart legislator, a good campaigner, and a foreign policy savant. Does it matter that he doesn't represent change? —By David Corn 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 The Future of Death at the Pentagon Why does the U.S. government foster unfettered, blue-skies creativity only in the context of lethal technologies? —By Nick Turse 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. 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 Outlaw Administration Why the civilization we are in the process of destroying in Iraq is part of our own heritage. —By Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch 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 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 Apocalypse Later A futurologist says our apathy to gradual change may bring about slow-motion apocalypse. —By John Feffer 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 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 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 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 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...				God Understands Irony, A Postscript The Palin Factor What The Palin Pick Says About John McCain and the GOP KBR Sued For Human Trafficking Will Palin Bring A Breast Pump On The Campaign Trail? The First Time Hillary Clinton is Mentioned at the Vice Presidential Debate... Obama's Grand Speech: Reason for Hope Fox. Is. Amazing. Gore's Speech: A Reminder of What's Missing Roundtable Review: Trouble the Water more... Champagne Towers by Ted Pushinsky Santa Monica, across from the exclusive condo complex Champagne Towers. Submit a photo RE: Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide Very impressive little map. I'm going to show this around - regardless of your opinions on the war, it's difficult to argue with clear cut facts of where our men are and why. Posted by: Mockingbird on 08/22/08 at 9:13 AM Dollar Diplomacy Whither the Bushwhacked? Homeland Security and Other Boondoggles Bush's Biggest Achievements Mission Creep About This Package How to Stay in Iraq for 1,000 Years US Troops Retake the Dragon's Lair Coke and Smokes America's Unwelcome Advances 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 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. Help us speak truth to power by visiting websites like the National Coalition Against Censorship and demand Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and defend your right to know. Want to continue making a change? 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