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Bush's New Political Science

When it comes to public-health appointments, the administration has its own litmus test.

November/December 2002 Issue

Why Evangelicals Like Rick Perry Love Israel

Perry told Mother Jones this week that supporting Israel is a Christian duty. In 2002, Michael Scherer and Ken Silverstein explained how the religious right's love affair with the Holy Land got started.

September/October 2002 Issue

Unjust Rewards

The government continues to award federal business worth billions to companies that repeatedly break the law. A Mother Jones investigation reveals which major contractors are the worst offenders.

May/June 2002 Issue

Political Intel: When U.S. Spies Get the Goods, But the Government Won't Listen

What happens when U.S. spies get the goods-- and the government won't listen?

January/February 2002 Issue

Huntsville's Missile Payload

Pentagon money and Nazi rocket scientists turned a sleepy Alabama town into a defense contractor's paradise. Now President Bush is preparing to sink billions more into missile defense -- and give Huntsville its biggest boost ever.

July/August 2001 Issue

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

With 67 brokers and investment managers on the Mother Jones 400, privatizing Social Security looks like money in the bank.

Mon Mar. 5, 2001 12:00 AM PST

Trillion-Dollar Hideaway

Offshore accounts. IBCs. Walking trusts. Financial institutions have lots of names for the places the wealthy hide their cash from the IRS. They just don't call it cheating.

November/December 2000 Issue

Candidate Nader: He May be the Most Intensely Private Man Ever to Seek Public Office. What Makes Ralph Run?

He may be the most intensely private man ever to seek public office. What makes Ralph run?

July/August 2000 Issue

The Pentagon's 300-Billion-Dollar Bomb

The military is committed to stealth aircraft and may never buy another conventional plane. But amid all the hype, stealth's glaring flaws have evaded Washington's radar.

January/February 2000 Issue

Prozac.org

An influential mental health nonprofit finds its 'grassroots' watered by pharmaceutical millions

November/December 1999 Issue

Haig's Last Years

Alexander Haig, who died Saturday, got rich helping corporations deal with the world's worst regimes.

September/October 1999 Issue

Communism for Profiteers
Fri Jul. 16, 1999 11:00 PM PDT

Communism for Profiteers

Several hundred titans of American business are off to China to ponder that country's massive market potential, and to celebrate 50 years of communism.

Tue Jul. 13, 1999 11:00 PM PDT

High-Caliber Carnival

The Middle East market is stagnant; Asian sales are off; but flying down to Rio will boom your business -- if you're an international arms maker.

July/August 1999 Issue

Easy Being Green
March/April 1999 Issue

Security Meltdown

Who is watching the people who are watching our nukes?

November/December 1998 Issue

Heavy Metal

<p>How does the defense industry arm itself against budget cuts? With the Pentagon's top brass. </p><p><font face="geneva, arial,sans-serif" color="ff0000">Plus:</font> <a href="/news/special_reports/1998/11/silverstein.html">Pentagon Promotion</a>.</p>

November/December 1998 Issue

Pentagon Promotion
November/December 1998 Issue

Heavy Metal

<p>How does the defense industry arm itself against budget cuts? With the Pentagon's top brass. </p><p>Plus: <a href="/news/special_reports/coinop_congress/98mojo_400/silverstein.html">Pentagon Promotion</a>.</p>

November/December 1998 Issue

Pentagon Promotion
November/December 1998 Issue

Media Mogul Courts Minorities

But is proposed deal a "Faustian bargain"?

September/October 1998 Issue

So You Want To Trade With a Dictator

A step-by-step guide on how to get around foreign trade sanctions, human rights groups, and religious activists, and still have God on your side

May/June 1998 Issue

Doing Business With Despots

Who are you going to call? The Wexler Group.

Mon Apr. 27, 1998 11:00 PM PDT

Power Broker

The big private energy lobby warms up to a senator

March/April 1998 Issue

Washington Wide Web

Microsoft's 1995-1997 lobbyists and their power ties.

January/February 1998 Issue

The Microsoft Network

Bill insists he wants to avoid politics. Meanwhile, he's waged a quietly massive attack on the other Washington.<br /> <font color="#cc0000">Plus:</font> <a href="/news/feature/1998/01/silverstein_chart.html">Washington Wide Web</a>: Microsoft's lobbyists and their power ties.

January/February 1998 Issue

Hello. I'm calling this evening to mislead you.

A <i>Mother Jones</i> Investigation: We take a look inside one of Washington's top phony grassroots lobbying firms.

November/December 1997 Issue

How the Chips Fell

Will P&G convince consumers to swallow its olestra PR campaign?

May/June 1997 Issue

How the Chips Fell

Will P&G convince consumers to swallow its olestra PR campaign?

May/June 1997 Issue