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McCain's Nuclear Waste How the Arizona senator doomed his own global warming legislation with billions in nuclear subsidies. — By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Which Dem Is Better Able to Beat John McCain? Brodner's Person of the Day: John McCain As Mitt Waves Good-Bye, McCain Says I'm Your Guy Maligning McCain Clinton Wins Set Up an Ugly Slog In Ohio and Texas, her campaign finally figured out how to attack Obama. But will the Democratic battle now be nasty, brutish, and long? —By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Exit Polls Show Clinton Got Her Base Back Obama's Canada/NAFTA Flap Hurt Him Clinton Camp Effectively Put Obama on the Defensive Does BHO Have an Ace Up His Sleeve? Exclusive: I Was Kidnapped by the CIA Inside the CIA's extraordinary rendition program and the bungled abduction of would-be terrorists. —By Peter Bergen MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers Torture Comes Home Am I a Torturer? Top Stories 1 2 3
McCain's Next Move While the Dems duke it out for the nomination, McCain has some work to do. First order of business: unify the GOP base. —By Jonathan Stein Is the Economy a Casualty of War? Increasingly, Democrats are blaming the war for the economic downturn, but many economists say Iraq spending isn't the culprit. —By Nick Baumann The Cost of a Week in Hell One Week at War in Iraq and Afghanistan for $3.5 Billion. —By William D. Hartung, TomDispatch Department of Pre-Crime Why are citizens being locked up for "un-American" thoughts? —By Eric Umansky Abbas and Olmert (read more...) archive... The Monster Must Die! The genius of Roger Clemens lies in the fact that he created the monster of himself. —By Robert Lipsyte, TomDispatch Obama vs. Clinton on the Top 10 Economic Issues The dueling Dems differ in key ways on health care, subprime bailouts, family leave, and social security. Here's how. —By Nomi Prins Bush's Newest Secret: Who's Funding His Library? At a press conference the president refuses to say whether he'll disclose donors to his presidential library, but acknowledges he'll "probably take some foreign money." —By David Corn More Answers in the Missing Email Caper Documents released by the House oversight committee show that warnings over serious flaws in the White House's email archiving system went unheeded. —By Daniel Schulman Gobsmacked on the Don Imus Show Can a black immigrant be African-American? A Mother Jones columnist gets schooled on race—by Don Imus, of all people. —By Debra Dickerson Dems Debate: No Pain, No Gain If the political winds in Ohio and Texas are blowing in Barack Obama's favor—and polls in each state shown Obama gaining strength—Hillary Clinton did little during Tuesday night's debate in Cleveland to change the weather. —By David Corn Project Hillary Project Runway's Tim Gunn to Hillary Clinton: "Make it work." A political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore Meet the New Mudslingers Forget Swift Boat Veterans and 527s; this election's sneaky operators are nonprofits. —By David Corn Recipes for Disaster in Iraq The Commander-in-Chef cooks up a storm. —By Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch Hollywood's Eco Trip Now even the Oscars have gone green. And while the glitz of excess on the red carpet isn't likely to change, the popular rap on environmentalism just might. —By Dave Gilson The Most Wanted List International terrorism: Entering the theater of the absurd. —By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch Getting the Strait Story The Pentagon spun a minor melee off the coast of Iran into a direct menace to U.S. interests. Why isn't Congress concerned? —By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium The Tightening Noose Gaza under Hamas, Gaza under siege. —By Jen Marlowe, TomDispatch How to Buy a Gun in Darfur Sudan's open arms trade runs from China to Chad. —By Daniel Pepper No Shoot-Out in Texas In a must-win state, Hillary Clinton did not mount a must-win debate performance. Her attacks seemed halfhearted, while Barack Obama stuck to his (so far) winning script. —By David Corn Obama Email Smear: The "Farrakhan Candidate" A new viral (and virulent) email campaign suggests an Obama presidency will "embolden" terrorists he "physically resembles." —By David Corn Meet Bush's Prison Nominee Tennessee's next trial court judge just might be a prison company executive who has less courtroom experience than most inmates. —By Stephanie Mencimer Can McCain's Candidacy Survive the Iseman Affair? The McCain campaign may weather the damaging revelations about his cozy ties to a telecom lobbyist, but the real question is whether there's more evidence of quid pro quo. —By David Corn Israel's Mossad, Out of the Shadows Former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy explains why he advocates talks with Hamas. —By Laura Rozen Visiting the Torture Museum The Bush administration has more in common with Spanish inquisitors than you might think. —By Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch Where Have All The Blue-Collar Dems Gone? To Obama. In Wisconsin, he delivers an embarrassing defeat to Clinton and sets up what might be the final showdown in Ohio and Texas. —By David Corn Doreen the Downer Ever wonder what goes into making a tasty and delicious hamburger? Doreen the Downer will explain all in this political cartoon. —By Mark Fiore Adios, Fidel, and Good Riddance Let's stop romanticizing Castro's repressive, impoverished state. —By David Corn Mandatory, Minimum, and Misguided On crack-sentencing guidelines, the Justice Department is doing what it can to keep the Reaganites' must-punish mania alive. —By Niko Karvounis Clinton's New Campaign Strategy: In with the Old Hillary Clinton has called Maggie Williams back to action. But she brings baggage from Clinton scandals past. —By David Corn The Fall of a Corporate Crime Fighter Famed class action attorney Bill Lerach's pursuit of corporate fraud cases landed him on the wrong side of the law. —By Stephanie Mencimer The Hezbollah Whodunnit Terrorist leader Imad Mugniyah had no shortage of enemies. But who ultimately did him in? —By Laura Rozen Super Tuesday Video: David Corn Mother Jones D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn discusses his music vs. math metaphor, a return to campaign styles of the 70's, and the inevitable fatigue facing Pennsylvania's citizens. —By Nick Aster more...				Bank Drops Wikileaks Case Gayest Songs of All Time List Omits Morrissey, But Still Kind of Sad Obama to Clinton: We've Got Our Own Kitchen Sink Comcast Must Die EPA Union Leaders Take on Top Brass Over CA Waiver Decision The Only Muslim in Congress on the Obama-Muslim Smear John W. McCain at the White House FISA and Total Online Awareness Christians Heart Payday Lenders What John McCain Must Do Now more... Behind the Scenes Photographers wait in the well during a hearing on the fired US attorneys March 29, 2007 by Mark Murrmann Submit a photo RE: Clinton Wins Set Up an Ugly Slog I'm from Indiana and we here do not consider it tearing the Democratic Party apart because the Democratic candidate is not decided yet. NO one should drop from the race until the race is actually OVER -- we all deserve a say in this election! Posted by: Marta on 03/05/08 at 12:32 PM The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem The Torture Archives McCain's Nuclear Waste Exclusive: I Was Kidnapped by the CIA The Final Act of Abu Ghraib Disappearing Act: Rendition by the Numbers Am I a Torturer? Why Texas is Obama Territory Think you aleady know the secrets of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Here's what you've been missing. The Enablers Central Intelligence Anxiety Potomac Primaries: Obama Steals Clinton's Base The Drug War's Southern Flank Close Encounters with the Conservative Kind We're All #1! A Look at the Over Praised American Passing Judgment A Rubber Stamp for Warrantless Wiretaps? Congress is weighing changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would rubber stamp warrantless eavesdropping on Americans and grant immunity to phone companies that facilitate it. 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