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What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:39:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Feb. 08 - In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history." Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history—56 percent of the country was either in drought or f

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What's Happening in the Persian Gulf Explained

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein, Hamed Aleaziz - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - The basics: Iran and the United States appear to be heading for a showdown in the Persian Gulf. Amid already-high tensions over Iran's advancing nuclear program, the US has imposed harsh new economic sanctions on the regime in Tehran and begun to move se

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Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - A new study suggests that defense hawks are crying crocodile tears over planned cuts to Pentagon spending. Capitol Hill conservatives and Pentagon brass fighting cuts to defense spending have argued that the military is limping off the battlefield

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Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Oct. 25 (News Report) - Physicists are notorious for believing that other scientists are mathematically incompetent. And University of California-Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is notorious for believing that conventional wisdom is often wrong. For example, the conventional wisdom about climate change.

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25 Giant Corporations That Paid Their CEOs More Than They Paid Uncle Sam

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Sep. 03 (Investigative Report) - It might make sense for a small business to pay its top brass more than it doles out to Uncle Sam in taxes, but what if that company has tens of thousands of employees and billions of dollars in profits? Well, this is America folks. What follows is a list of 25 mega corporations that paid one guy—their CEO—more money than what they spent on their entire federal tax bills last year. The same companies averaged $1.9 billion each in profits

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Why Are White Guys Climate Skeptics?

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Aug. 03 (News Analysis) - Mother Jones (blog)Why Are White Guys Climate Skeptics?Mother Jones (blog)— 14% of the general public doesn't worry about climate change at all, but among CWMs the percentage jumps to 39%. — 32% of adults deny there is a scientific consensus on climate change, but 59% of CWMs deny what the overwhelming majority of the world's scientists have said.

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How AEI Kneecapped the Financial Crisis Commission

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Jul. 20 (News Report) - When it came time for the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to unveil its final report on the causes of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, the commission's 11 members were bitterly divided. In the end, the FCIC's Republicans refused to put their names on the commission's final report. Instead, they released their own questionable narrative of what caused the crisis. Then there was Republican commissioner Peter Wallison, who broke with both Democrats and Republicans and published a solo report that, despite bundles of evidence to the contrary, pointed to government housing policy and fallen housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the major causes of the financial crisis. On the front page of his dissent Wallison listed his employer: the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential conservative think tank in Washington, DC, where he's a fellow in financial policy.

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Little Suzie Newsykins Takes on Weinergate

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Mark Fiore - Jun. 16 (Cartoon) - Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and has a website featuring his work.

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The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 18 (Special Report) - Through her, the aliens had given the precise date of an Earth-rending cataclysm: December 21, 1954. Some of Martin's followers quit their jobs and sold their property, expecting to be rescued by a flying saucer when the continent split asunder and a new

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Just the Simple Truth

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Apr. 14 (Opinion) - Sometimes the truth hurts. And all Obama did was speak the simple truth. In the past decade, Republicans slashed taxes, started two wars, approved a big unfunded entitlement, and presided over an economic collapse that cratered tax revenues and required massive government spending to counteract. That's pretty much 100% of our existing deficit problem right there. All we're doing now is trying to clean up the mess the GOP has left us.

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The Religious Right's Anti-Union Crusade

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Wisconsin's ongoing labor battle has officially become a holy war. The Family Research Council, the evangelical advocacy organization founded by James Dobson, has been dipping into its war chest to defend Republican Governor Scott Walker's efforts to curtail collective bargaining for public-sector unions. FRC president Tony Perkins interviewed backers of Walker's anti-union bill on his weekly radio program and has tweeted his support for the bill, directly linking social conservatism with an anti-union, pro-business agenda: "Pro-family voters should celebrate WI victory b/c public & private sector union bosses have marched lock-step w/liberal social agenda."

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It's the Inequality, Stupid

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Dave Gilson,Carolyn Perot - Feb. 26 (Special Report) - A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.

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Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - In 2008, a liberal Democrat was elected president. Landslide votes gave Democrats huge congressional majorities. Eight years of war and scandal and George W. Bush had stigmatized the Republican Party almost beyond redemption. A global financial crisis had discredited the disciples of free-market fundamentalism, and Americans were ready for serious change. Or so it seemed. But two years later, Wall Street is back to earning record profits, and conservatives are triumphant. To understand why this happened, it's not enough to examine polls and tea parties and the makeup of Barack Obama's economic team. You have to understand how we fell so short, and what we rightfully should have expected from Obama's election. And you have to understand two crucial things about American politics.

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The Chamber of Carbon

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Did Scott Walker Get Crank-Call Pwned?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein - Feb. 23 (News) - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's office confirms that the recording of a call between the governor and an alt-weekly writer posing as David Koch, one of the billionaire GOP financier brothers, is real and that it is actually Walker on the recording.

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South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Feb. 15 (News Report) - A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.

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The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Jan. 28 (Investigative Report) - Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law. For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,"a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would

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Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Jan. 10 (News Report) - At 2:00 a.m. on Saturdayabout eight hours before Jared Lee Loughner allegedly killed six people and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)he phoned an old and close friend with whom he had gone to high school and college. The friend, Bryce Tierney, was up late watching TV, but he didn't answer the call. When he later checked his voice mail, he heard a simple message from Loughner: "Hey man, it's Jared. Me and you had good times. Peace out. Later." That was it. But later in the day, when Tierney first heard about the Tucson massacre, he had a sickening f

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My TSA Anti-Rant

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - The fact that you personally are annoyed — you! an educated white-collar professional! — doesn't mean that the process is idiotic. I've heard it called "security theater" so many times I'd be rich if I had a nickel for each time it popped up in my browser, but although the anti-TSA rants are often cathartic and amusing, they've never made much sense to me.

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The Battle of Blair Mountain, Round Two

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - lawyers working for the coal companies in the area produced its own list of landowners who objected to the listing—after the deadline for comment had passed.... Listing advocates say that in addition arriving too late, the new list was full of errors—including the names of people who were dead and those who weren't actually the rightful landowners...They accused the coal companies of drumming up the list in order to prevent the site from being protected. "They'd like to get rid of the history and they'd like to take the millions of dollars of coal out of there as cheaply as possible."

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The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Oct. 05 (Special Report) - The numbers tell so much of the story. The 6.76 million Americans—or 46 percent of the entire unemployed labor force—counted as long-term unemployed in June were the most since 1948, when the statistic was first recorded, and more than double the previous record of 3 million in the recession of the early 1980s. (The numbers have since dipped slightly, with a total of 6.2 million long-term unemployed in August.) These are people who, despite dozens of rejections, leave phone messages, send emails, tweak their cover letters, and toy with resume templates in Microsoft Word, all in the search for a job.

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Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Stephanie Mencimer - Sep. 01 (Investigative Report) - It was an eyebrow-raising revelation and certainly an original image: Beck cradling the actual words of the first president. But would the persnickety gatekeepers of the nation's historical legacy at the National Archives allow some talk show

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Should Liberals Compromise on Birthright Citizenship? | Mother Jones

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Majority Rule is Good for Liberals

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Jul. 30 (Opinion) - Bowers [is] not imagining what a GOP President and GOP Congress would have achieved with the elimination of the filibuster. You thought the actual Bush tax cuts were bad? They would be TWICE as bad without the filibuster. And twice as hard to undo as

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BP Cleanup Workers Gone Wild

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Mac McClelland - Jul. 24 (Special Report) - I hear about the race riot at Daddy's Money almost as soon as I arrive on Grand Isle, Louisiana. My friend and I are going to the bar tonight to catch the "female oil wrestling" oil-spill cleanup workers have been packing in to see on Saturday nights. When we stop by the office of the island's biggest seafood distributor, he tells us that two days ago a bunch of black guys and a bunch of white guys got into a big fight at the bar. It spilled out all over the street and had to be broken up by a ton of cops.

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