Essays & Opinion
My interview with murderer Hans Reiser
Five days before the computer genius who killed his wife led police to her body, he was remorseless and angry in defense of his innocence. [Link]
McCain Campaign Screening Questioners?
Political reporters are wondering if McCain aides are vetting the journalists who ask questions during campaign conference calls for the media. The evidence suggests they are; the campaign won't say. [Link]
Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: I Met the Walrus
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Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Homo Iraqtus
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Film Review: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
Eleven years after Marines killed an American teenager near the US-Mexico border, director Kieran Fitzgerald's movie sifts through the details of the shooting. [Link]
What's John McCain's Technology Policy?
Surprise—he doesn't have one. And how does that compare to Barack Obama? [Link]
Washington Dispatches
Political Coverage from the Mother Jones Bureau in D.C. [Link]
Iraq's New Fave Five
When it comes to U.S. advisors at work in Iraq, reporters need look no further than the solicitations sent out by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil itself. [Link]
John McCain's radical tax plan
He voted against Bush's tax cuts, but now, despite a ballooning deficit, he wants to slash taxes even further — with most of the benefits going to the rich. [Link]
Pakistan's deal with the devil
Beheadings, martial law, kidnappings: The Taliban is making its presence felt at the gates of one of Pakistan's biggest cities. [Link]
Obama veepstakes: The other woman
She's no Hillary Clinton, but Kathleen Sebelius, the popular governor of Kansas, may have a shot at being Barack's running mate. [Link]
Apocalypse now
In a devastating global climate of our own making, how will humans survive? [Link]
The House I Live In
America is a nation of losers. It’s the best thing about us. We're the dregs, what the rest of the world barfed up and threw on our shores. John Kennedy said we are "a nation of immigrants." That’s the sanitized phrase. We are, in fact, a nation of refugees, who, despite the … [Link]
Journey To East George Bushistan
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The Exxon Valdez and McCain's Threat to Drill Our Coastline.
'Catch Greg Palast with Bobby Kennedy on 'Ring of Fire' this weekend, on your local Air America Radio Station - or, on the 'Net - at GoLeft.TV and RingofFireRadio.com [Link]
A Note from Tomas Young — What's Your Favorite Antiwar or Protest Music?
Veteran Tomas Young, the subject of the new documentary film BODY OF WAR, was paralyzed within a week of arriving in Iraq. He is now the co-executive producer of a new compilation of antiwar and protest songs, BODY OF WAR: SONGS THAT INSPIRED AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN , which Young calls his personal … [Link]
Update: Body of War - Tomas Young
BODY OF WAR introduced viewers to Tomas Young, a young veteran who was paralyzed less than a week after arriving to fight in Iraq. The past week has been difficult for the Young family. As reported by Bill Moyers, Tomas briefly fell into a coma brought on by a clot in his lungs. According to his … [Link]
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. [Link]
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