Mother Jones

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Articles in Sept-Oct 2007 issue of Mother Jones

• Editors' note
  by Monika Bauerlein
• Hard to break: as the scary studies about plastic's health effects pile up, should we kick the habit?
  by Elizabeth Grossman
• Doggone it, people like him
  by Jonathan Stein
• Undercover brother: Pras Michel hits Skid Row
  by Alan Light
• Conspiracy watch: funny money
  by Dave Gilson
• Press pass: it isn't just Fox—even the liberal media is in the fake news business
  by Ted Genoways
• I [love] a man in uniform: gun control goes out the window when the Marines take Manhattan
  by Nina Berman
• Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
  by Jon Young
• Ken Burns' watch list
• Black ops jungle
  by Chris Colin
• Lessons unlearned: special reports on 9/11 and Katrina
• Tainted Love: Mating Calls and Fight Songs
  by Jon Young
• House of cards: signing up a new credit card customer: $58. Buying off Congress: $8.5 million. Keeping Americans in hock for life: priceless
  by Dave Gilson
• Heckuva job
  by Joshua Kurlantzick
• 100 Days, 100 Nights
  by Jon Young
• Breathless in Brooklyn: when they found one of the world's largest oil spills beneath New York City, state, federal, and oil company officials did the only logical thing: they passed the buck
  by Frank Koughan
• Backtalk
• Weapon of math deduction
  by Jen Phillips
• Challengers
  by Jon Young
• School of shock: eight states are sending autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to a facility that punishes them with painful electric shocks. How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture?
  by Jennifer Gonnerman
• Pick different
  by Brendan Skwire
• Charity begins at home
  by Jonathan Schwarz
• The Rape of Europa
  by Jen Phillips
• Hillary's prayer: for 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of a secretive religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back to Capitol Hill. Is she triangulating—or living her faith?
  by Kathryn Joyce
• Reality bites
  by Thais Mazur
• Those meddling kids
  by Neha Inamdar
• All your political base are belong to us
  by Josh Harkinson
• Sea change: as climate change melts the permafrost, Arctic villages slip into the sea, taking a way of life with them
  by Robert Knoth
• Save the world
  by Carla Marcus-Thomas
• Beyond the Green Zone
  by Nick Turse
• Gay by choice? If science proves sexual orientation is more fluid than we've been led to believe, can homosexuality still be a protected right?
  by Gary Greenberg
• Cool ideas
  by Alvia Gaskill
• The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
  by Josh Harkinson
• Mr clean: he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. So what's all this about contaminating pristine water, poisoning babies, and condoning human rights abuses?
  by David Case
• Home away from home
  by Phillip Kilbridge
• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
  by Marc Herman