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Articles in July-August, 2008 issue of Mother Jones

• December surprise: is the GOP cooking the books to avoid recession till after Election Day?
  by James K. Galbraith
• Where credit is due
  by Nomi Prins
• Editors' note
  by Monika Bauerlein
• Shalom, hamas
  by Laura Ronzen
• Constant trouble
  by Larry Birns
• Political trivia question
  by Michael O'Donnell
• Amped up
  by George Hamilton
• Turning carbon into gold
  by Josh Harkinson
• And you call yourselves feminists
  by Kristianne Hinkamp
• Wasted potential
  by Kamal Kishore
• Conspiracy watch: Teddygate
  by Dave Gilson
• Location, location: a quick lesson in how offsets can backfire
  by Daphne Wysham
• Fan club
  by Benjamin Drummond
• Bush to cops: drop dead
  by Bruce Falconer
• One man's trash …
• Inappropriations: your tax dollars at rest
  by Michael Beckel
• Magna cum mojo
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• Forever young: adventures in not acting your age
  by Kiera Butler
• Smoke & mirrors: warning: concealing product dangers and funding of science by industry may be hazardous to the health of hundreds of thousands of workers
  by Jim Morris
• March of the tourists: Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand?
  by Julia Whitty
• Foreclosure Phil: would you trust the man who broke America's financial system to fix it? John McCain does
  by David Corn
• Slammed: we are locking up 1 in every 100 American adults—and going bankrupt in the process
  by Jennifer Gonnerman
• Worst of the worst: California's hard lessons in how not to run a prison system
  by James Sterngold
• Taming of the screws: even California's powerful prison guards' union thinks more prisons are a bad idea
  by Sasha Abramsky
• Texas hold 'em: the lucrative business of locking up immigrants
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• Probation for profit: in Georgia's outsourced justice system, a traffic ticket can land you deep in the hole
  by Celia Perry
• Hard time out: five-year-olds in handcuffs, eighth-graders detained for doodling: The prison boom comes to the schools
  by David Goodman
• Sex and the slammer: shackled births, prisoner experiments, and rampant TB? Just another day on the ward
• The Shawnee redemption: spiraling prison costs? Not in Kansas anymore
  by Justine Sharrock
• A bitter leaf: in Bolivia, Evo Morales has tried to deliver on a populist revolution. But as impoverished peasants increasingly turn to the cocaine trade, will any hope of a better life be blown away?
  by Patrick Symmes
• This is your brain on cell phones: is it just the crazies who think invisible waves are messing with our heads?
  by Kiera Butler
• Apple computer: why is it easier to watch movies on a PC than a Mac?
  by Leigh Ferrara
• The dogs of war: can David Simon's Generation Kill save the Iraq War movie?
  by Ethan Brown
• This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation
  by Mike Mosedale
• A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
  by Bruce Falconer
• The movie of his life: antihero John Cusack
  by Clara Jeffery
• The Dobler effect
• The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
  by Joyce Tang
• Diamond Hoo Ha
  by Jon Young
• Two Men With the Blues
  by Jon Young
• Season of Sweets
  by Jon Young
• Exit Strategy of the Soul
  by Jon Young