
Let’s Grow America
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Spoiled
Organic and local is so 2008: the real future of food -
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner
Michael Pollan on feeding everyone (not just foodies) -
Veg-O-Might
Can you get ripped without meat? -
This Little Piggy Goes Home
California’s traveling slaughterman -
Slash and Burn
Why biofuels are the rainforest’s worst enemy -
Trouble on the Limpopo
Ethanol’s African landgrab -
Tray Chic
From fro-yo to frisée: upgrading the college cafeteria
FEATURES
Trading Up
How Obama can fix the climate, give clean tech a boost, and send you a fat check
Gold Member
Why does Senate majority leader Harry Reid let the mining industry get the gold while taxpayers get the shaft?
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
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?
Cover illustration by Nick Dewar
Photograph of Newt Gingrich by Gary Boas/AdMedia/Newscom