More of a showcase of work Mother Jones has already done than a new and original piece. The descriptions of the nominees themselves are cursory, but they link to good Mother Jones articles from the past few months in which each individual is a key player. Recommended.

Informative article about five nominees for key posts in the Obama Administration - with strong ties to the industries they would be asked to regulate. Though this is a brief overview, it links to earlier articles about each candidate. More importantly, it makes a undeniable point that Obama's ethics rules against such conflicts of interest have considerably relaxed in just a year.

This is a very interesting read - and it is part Investigative and part Analytical in it's nature. This is only part of the puzzle - this is the 'What' - and the respective 'W's are vertically aligned in each of the five featured appointees. Further the article proposes that this is familiar to the practices to the last administration. It would appear they support their premise sufficiently.

Short, but horrible formatting on the web. The bad nominees are so numerous that the article could be much longer and have more depth. Not much is said on why he picked them. Perhaps balance would call for naming the good nominees.