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Book Review: A Nuclear Family Vacation Authors Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger provide a guided tour to atomic weaponry tourism, from nuclear labs to blast-proof bunkers (including Dick Cheney's rumored "undisclosed location"). —By Bruce Falconer MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: The Real-Life Matrix Revolutionary Tourists Books: Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias My Virtuous Vacation Extreme Summer Camps Goodbye, crafts and color wars. Hello, explosives and Dianetics. Some summer camps for kids with very specialized interests. —By Kiera Butler MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: What's Your Baby's Carbon Footprint? Should You Ditch Your Chemical Mattress? Crayons Down! The MoJo Interview: David Sedaris The humorist and author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames talks about obese spiders, his boyfriend Hugh, and why he isn't about to apologize to Oprah for exaggerating his autobiographical stories. —By Tony DuShane MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: The MoJo Interview: John Cusack Interrogating Errol Morris Love Bites: An Interview With Toby Barlow Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy Top Stories 1 2 3
Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis A field guide to the loan sharks and politicos who got us into the predatory lending mess. —By Nomi Prins Subprime 1-2-3 Don't understand credit default swaps? Don't worry—neither does Congress. Herewith, a step-by-step outline of the subprime risk betting game. —By Casey Miner Consumer Retorts: Apple Computer Why is it easier to watch Netflix movies on a PC than a Mac? —By Leigh Ferrara The GOP's December Surprise Is the GOP cooking the books to avoid recession till after Election Day? —By James K. Galbraith Journey To East George Bushistan This Independence Day let's honor a growing national tradition: Constitutional compromise. A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore Obama on Patriotism: Getting Past the '60s? In a speech on patriotism, Obama defends his own love of country and says dissent—the right kind of dissent—is patriotic. —By David Corn MoJo Convo: Iran Panic We asked an Israeli intel correspondent, an Iranian American activist, an arms expert, and a former peace negotiator: How likely is a scenario in which the US or Israel bombs Iran? Talk to them all week about their responses. Citizen Stupid Just how ignorant is the average American voter? —By Rick Shenkman, TomDispatch Where's My Economic Stimulus Check? How the IRS "economic stimulus hotline" works, or doesn't. —By Nicole McClelland A Citizen's Guide To the Post-Bush Globe Quaker and foreign policy wonk Helena Cobban cheers Bush's North Korea diplomacy, skewers "daddy-knows-bestism," and offers some worldly advice for Americans. —By Justin Elliott Supreme Court Shoots Down DC Gun Ban In the ruling—opposed by the Bush administration but supported by Cheney—Scalia says the issue is hunting, not gun violence. —By Stephanie Mencimer The Good News in Iraq When it comes to Iraq, the good news is unavoidable. —By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Hypermiling 101: Lessons From A Pro Wayne Gerdes can get 59 MPG in a plain old Accord. You, Prius driver, could stand to learn a thing or two. —By Dennis Gaffney America, Over Big Oil's Barrel What's really driving up your gas prices? Oil companies say it's government regulators, foreign dictators, and those pesky polar bears. —By James Ridgeway Avoiding Torture's Taint Don't let the Red Cross find out—and other military advice on the use of harsh interrogation techniques. —By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium Exxon Valdez Verdict Overturned After spending millions fighting a $5 billion punitive damages award, the oil giant lands a major victory at the Supreme Court. —By Stephanie Mencimer GAO: U.S. Lacks Post-"Surge" Plan For Iraq Violence in Iraq has dropped precipitously since January 2007, but, a new report warns, the Bush administration has yet to formulate a strategy to keep the peace. —By Bruce Falconer Welcome To the Anthropocene Mapping the possibilities of chaos and environmental degradation in a new, human-dominated epoch. —By Mike Davis, TomDispatch Toxic Smoke and Mirrors Overexposure to manganese has caused Parkinson's-like symptoms for thousands of welders. So why does the welding industry still get a free chemical pass? A Mother Jones investigation. —By Jim Morris Not the Change We Want A mystery candidate tosses his hat into the presidential race. A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore What Family Leave? The nation's workplace policies are on par with those of some Third World countries. Does the Bush administration want to keep it that way? —By Stephanie Mencimer Remembering George Carlin In a 1997 interview, Carlin, who died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 71, told Mother Jones what's wrong with Mickey Mouse, baby boomers, private property, and political activism. —By Ricky Young The Pesticide of Last Resort In the summer showdown between lawn-care lobbyists and parents against toxic sprays, whose grass is greener? Connecticut's finding out. —By David Kushner The Pentagon's Billion-Dollar Babies How five mega-contractors command billions in tax money, and why you've never heard of them. —By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Investigation Update: Three Days In Rome Does an investigation of the Pentagon's channel to an Iran Contra arms dealer continue? A Mother Jones intel scoop. —By Laura Rozen Photo Essay: Phone Sex Operators Twenty-five phone sex operators—from the all-American man to the single mom—talk about vegan fetishes, sound effects, and what it's like to provide wonderland on the line. SFW. —By Phillip Toledano Obama: Promise-Breaker or Reform-Shaker? The presumptive Democratic nominee opts out of the presidential public financing system. Is this good for small-d democracy or a blow to political reform? —By David Corn The Oil Majors Return to Iraq Remembering the protesters who asked, 'How did USA's oil get under Iraq's sand?' —By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Who Benefits From High Food Prices? Forget subprime. The next price bubble to watch is food speculation. —By Nomi Prins P.S. A Pill For Everything Are you one of the 145 million men distracted by intrusive, recurring thoughts of sex? Ask your doctor about Libidron. An editorial cartoon. —By John Cuneo "If the Detainee Dies, You're Doing It Wrong" A Senate investigation uncovers how torture entered the military's post-9/11 playbook. —By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium Conspiracy Watch: Teddygate Was Hillary Clinton a twentysomething Machiavelli? A former Nixon staffer peddles the secret plot to make Ted Kennedy president. —By Dave Gilson McCain's Slippery History With Offshore Drilling The Republican nominee is taking a pointless and environmentally dangerous position in order to pander to voters hit by high gas prices. It may hurt him come November. —By Jonathan Stein Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla The venture capitalist and founder of Sun Microsystems discusses the role of entrepreneurs in environmental change—and a negative carbon emission future where Hummers could flourish. —By Elizabeth Gettelman A Right-to-Lifer and the GOP's Nursing Home Dilemma When Ken Connor was testifying on Capitol Hill, it was clear that many people in his party deeply wish that he would go back to worrying about the unborn. —By Stephanie Mencimer Obama Hires A Fan of the Bush Tax Cuts? Adding new staff to his campaign, Obama fills a top slot with a party professional who once touted the Bush tax cuts as a major accomplishment. —By David Corn more...				Video: Fox News Altered Photos Snake Sidewinds Energy from the Sea Making Fake Stuff Look More Real Farms Kill Frogs McCain & Co. Find New Ways to Circumvent Campaign Finance Laws McCain Wrote Yearning for Polygamist Fashion Will Trouble in Afghanistan Become a Tough Campaign Issue for McCain? MoJo Convo: Iran Panic? A Follow Up Question for the Experts New (Leaked) Music: Beck - Modern Guilt The Dust Off (sort of): Zach de la Rocha more... Fan Club By Benjamin Drummond & Sara Joy Steele Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other natural disaster. As the globe warms up, scientists expect more heat waves like the one that killed more than 700 people—many elderly and living alone—in Chicago in the summer of 1995. Above: 75-year-old Noel Lyman cools down during a hot spell in St... (continued) Submit a photo RE: Supreme Court Overturns DC Handgun Ban What's good will got to do with an orderly distribution of powers and responsibilities in government? The constitution enumerates 3 and only 3 areas of federal responsibility and the 11th amendment makes that explicit. The court can not and should not ever, no matter what the issue, undermine its own authority by adding a 4th area or jurisdiction to the federal government out of its own head. It has no right to do so and that leads to the promiscuous government that exists in many totalitarian states. Posted by: Abu Nudnik on 06/30/08 at 8:04 AM The MoJo Interview: David Sedaris Extreme Summer Camps Shalom, Hamas Exhibit Sources: Forever Young Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster The Cocktail Napkin Plan for an Iran Coup Seeing Bobby Kennedy in Barack Obama Turning Carbon Into Gold All You Need to Know About Obama's VP Options Foreclosure Phil The MoJo Interview: John Cusack McCain's Troubling Relationship With the Revolving Door Ratcheting Up the Rhetoric on Iran Environmental Espionage: Inside a Chemical Company's Louisiana Spy Op Armed and Humanitarian Jammed by the Justice Department Habeas corpus lives, but for how long? For the third time in four years, the Supreme Court has rejected the Bush administration's Guantanamo detention policies by ruling in favor of a detainee's right to evoke habeas corpus. Read the AP account of what this means for the future of Gitmo here. But will Congress listen? Amnesty International USA offers this petition, urging members of Congress to respect the Supreme Court's decision and honor the constitution.