Table of Contents
Pursuit of Habeas
What Bush learned from the Sheriff of Nottingham.
By Jack Hitt
The Next Prez's Superpowers
Will a new president give back the authority that Bush and Cheney grabbed for the executive?
By David Cole
America's Most Dangerous Librarians
Meet the radical bookworms who fought the Patriot Act–and won.
By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
Bush's Reign of Error
"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you’re gone." –W.
By Nick Baumann and Dave Gilson
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
Party Favors: Land Handouts Are a Gas
A late-term ploy by the Bush team and its consultants is giving oil and gas developers right-of-way on millions of acres of public land.
By Keith Kloor
PLUS: Fed Up With the Fed
Take the Fed public, and Wall Street's Wild West days would be numbered.
Medicare's Poison Pill
Remember Bush's signature health care initiative? My life depends on it—and that's not very reassuring.
By James Ridgeway
No Contractor Left Behind
How Randy Best's for-profit education company jumped to the head of the class.
By Josh Harkinson
Do Taxpayers Need Marriage Workshops?
Rabbi Stephen Baars is here from the government to help your love life.
By Stephanie Mencimer
PLUS: Your Drug Dollars at Work
A spending breakdown for the top four drug companies.
Mission Creep: US Military Bases Around the World
Exclusive: Using Pentagon data, we mapped US military bases and probed federal data for the truth about our global footprint. Our brand-new primer of the post-Bush world order.
By Michael Mechanic
Map by Karen Minot
Weakened Warriors: When Soldiers Get Combat Fatigue
Has the Bush administration maxed out the military?
By Bruce Falconer
Relief Disaster
Foreign assistance to African nations hard hit by AIDS could have been the administration's greatest success. Then ideology interfered.
By Joshua Kurlantzick
PLUS: The Pentagon's Futurist
The Pentagon looks back to four great empires for tips on how to rule the world.
Return of the Geeks
For eight long years, the Bush administration has trashed and politicized the government's science agencies. How to kick out the hacks and flat-Earthers and let the nerds reign.
By Chris Mooney
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
Why Mercury Tuna Is Still Legal
The Bush FDA helped industry suppress the bad news about mercury. Still want fish for dinner?
By Stephanie Mencimer
What Was gwb@whitehouse.gov Really Up To?
George Bush's final email missive before the start of his presidency should have warned us what we'd lose.
By Daniel Schulman
Note to Press: Get a Spine
Why can't the press tell the truth about a president who didn't?
By David Corn
More From Mother Jones
Mother Jones articles, audio, and video on the Bush legacy, plus resources to help you find out more.
How to Fix America: A Guide for the Next First 100 Days
Valerie Plame Wilson, The Wire's David Simon, and 18 other experts on what the next president can do to clean house—pronto.
