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AMONG OUR LEADERS in Washington, who's been the biggest liar? There are all too many contenders, yet one is so floridly surreal that he deserves...
Mother Jones, 07/01/09 by Monika Bauerlein; Clara Jeffery · More from publication
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS WE BEGAN PUTTING this issue together, our interns took a poll among themselves: What's the difference between a pension...
Mother Jones, 05/01/09 by Monika Bauerlein; Clara Jeffery · More from publication
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AS CONFIRMATION hearings go, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's was a breeze. He wasn't asked to explain his cheerleading for ethanol (granted,...
Mother Jones, 03/01/09 by Monika Bauerlein; Clara Jeffery · More from publication
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WE'D MEANT to start this column with a few choice expletives about Goldman Sachs and its gall in setting aside nearly $6.9 billion for year-end...
Mother Jones, 01/01/09 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication
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IF YOU'VE watched TV recently, you might have noticed the T. Boone Pickens ads: "I've been an oilman my whole life," the old wildcatter intones...
Mother Jones, 11/01/08 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, Herbert Hoover was not such a bad president. Unlike the present occupant of the Oval Office, this Republican was an actual...
Mother Jones, 09/01/08 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication

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WHEN WE TOOK the reins of this magazine nearly two years ago, the press response was not altogether kind. Two editors obviously meant a "power...
Mother Jones, 07/01/08 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication
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ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO, when oil was trading at around $40 a barrel, Paul Roberts wrote a story for Mother Jones on a bleak scenario gaining...
Mother Jones, 05/01/08 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication
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WHAT IS AMERICA? It is a chunk of land; it is a racial and cultural kaleidoscope; it is a market. But more important and essential than any of...
Mother Jones, 03/01/08 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication
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IT WAS NEVER REALLY UP FOR DEBATE: We are leaving Iraq. This will not happen as quickly or as cleanly as we might wish, but there's no ignoring two...
Mother Jones, 11/01/07 by Monika Bauerlein · More from publication

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