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Articles in Sept-Oct, 2008 issue of Mother Jones

• The Chinavore's dilemma: pathogenic snacks. Deadly dog chow. Toxic seafood. Why is the FDA looking the other way on Chinese food imports?
  by Joshua Kurlantzick
• It rhymes with fire: why can't the press tell the truth about a president who didn't?
  by David Corn
• Editors' note
  by Monika Bauerlein
• Give me a prison break
  by Laurence James
• Loaded magazine
  by Jeffrey Semprebon
• Grand Obama party
  by Bruce Falconer
• Conspiracy watch: whose dam fault?
  by Elizabeth Gettelman
• Flames on a plane
  by Casey Miner
• Do you believe in magic? Gospel magicians spread the good word with puppets, mind reading, and flaming Bibles. But the real trick is not upstaging Jesus
  by Catherine Price
• Survey course: Mother Jones' 15th annual student activism roundup
  by Kiera Butler
• Exit strategy: time to start putting our country back together
• Pursuit of habeas: to justify Gitmo, the Bushies kept monkeying around with the Constitution. But by trying to kill the right of habeas corpus, they only made it stronger
  by Jack Hitt
• Reign of error
  by Nick Baumann
• How to Burn the speculators: why is the price of oil so high? Because the Bush administration did to the commodities market what it did to housing
  by James K. Galbraith
• Party favors: a late-term ploy by the Bush team and its consultants is giving oil and gas developers right-of-way on millions of acres of public land
  by Keith Kloor
• Medicare's poison pill: remember Bush's signature health care initiative? My life depends on it—and that's not very reassuring
  by James Ridgeway
• Mission creep: Bush and Rumsfeld may be history, but America's new global footprint lives on
  by Michael Mechanic
• Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
  by Nathalie Jordi
• Beyond belief: comedian Bill Maher
  by Elizabeth Gettelman
• Punch lines
• Chemical Chords
  by Jon Young
• Here With Me
  by Jon Young
• Cold Fact
  by Jon Young
• Heckler
  by James Rocchi
• P.S. our favorite Martians
• Occupational hazard
  by Toby Morris
• Relief disaster: foreign assistance might've been the administration's greatest hit—until ideology interfered
  by Joshua Kurlantzick
• A return to reason: for eight long years, the Bush administration has trashed and politicized the government's science agencies. How to kick out the hacks and flat-Earthers and let the geeks reign
  by Chris Mooney
• Control delete escape: what was gwb@whitehouse.gov really up to? We'll never know
  by Daniel Schulman
• Immune to reason: are vaccine skeptics putting your kids at risk?
  by Arthur Allen
• Burmese daze
  by Dave Gilson
• Tourist trap
  by Marshall Carter-Tripp
• Smug, cheerless journalism
  by Carl Jacobs
• The wed menace
  by Josh Harkinson
• Sworn enemies
  by Nir Rosen
• Kill and tell
  by Adam Weinstein
• Honey, I got the earmark
  by Ryan Grim
• The audacity of hype? Is Barack Obama exaggerating when he compares his campaign to the great progressive moments in US history? A MoJo forum
• Power corrupts: will a new president give back the authority that Bush and Cheney grabbed for the executive? Don't bet on it
  by David Cole
• America's most dangerous librarians: meet the radical bookworms who fought the Patriot Act—and won
  by Amy Goodman
• Hooked on phonies: when Pentagon-style contracting came to the Education Department, Randy Best cashed in
  by Josh Harkinson
• 10 ways to satisfy your president: how the administration took money from the poor, and put it into marriage workshops
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• Weakened warriors: has the Bush administration maxed out the military?
  by Bruce Palconer
• Tuna surprise: how the Bush FDA helped industry suppress the bad news about mercury
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• Smooth operators: a took inside the world of phone-sex workers. Find an expanded version of this photo essay at motherjones.com/phone-sex
• Wachovia: why is my bank hitting me with multiple overdraft fees?
  by Brittney Andres
• The truth is out there: in search of intelligent life in the world of 9/11 conspiracy theories
  by Dave Gilson
• Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
  by Anne Trubek
• The Rhumb Line
  by Jon Young
• Up the Yangtze
  by Jen Phillips