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FEATURES


Trading Up Trading Up

How Obama can fix the climate, give clean tech a boost, and send you a fat check


Gold Member Gold Member

Why does Senate majority leader Harry Reid let the mining industry get the gold while taxpayers get the shaft?


Meet the Parents Meet the Parents

A Midwestern kid’s family believes his birth parents put him up for adoption. An Indian couple claim he was kidnapped from them and sold. Who’s right?


Out of Mind, Out of Sight Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Inside the psychiatric hospitals the world forgot

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DEPARTMENTS

OUTFRONT

Old Newt’s new tricks; Obama: hypnotist in chief?; Thrilla in Manila, Part 2; Taser: Don’t sue me, bro; rites of spring vs. righteous spring; Blackwater goes to Africa; wake up and smell the arbitration clause

EXHIBIT

The Trickle-Up Economy


Schumer, squirrels, interns, debutantes: who wins and who loses in the bailout economy

MEDIA JONES

Kathryn Joyce on the popular author who teaches that meek wives are blessed, plus more book( Blank Spots, The Lottery Wars, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, Brush Cat ), film( Food, Inc. ), and music( Habeas Corpus, It’s Not Me, It’s You, Goodnight Oslo, Welcome to Mali ) reviews

MOJO INTERVIEW

Straight Outta Mogadishu


Somali-born rapper K’naan talks about pirates, thugs, and kids with guns

The Studs Factor


Dave Eggers’ oral fixation

Best Case Scenario


New Pornographer Neko Case

PRACTICAL VALUES

Foodie, Beware


Is your farmers market a farce?