Michael Mechanic
Senior Editor
Michael landed at MoJo after six years as an award-winning feature editor at the alt-weekly East Bay Express. He's written for numerous publications, including The Industry Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and Wired. An amateur science geek and father of two, he lives in Oakland, California, where he strums his guitar and croons for the old-time band Heller Highwater.
Author's Articles
Filmmaker Terry Gilliam talks about imagination and why he supports Roman Polanski.
Tue Dec. 15, 2009 6:14 PM PST
Listen to the movie star/Renaissance Man discuss activism, rabid fans, and eating bugs.
Fri Dec. 4, 2009 7:22 PM PST
Viggo Mortensen discusses fame, fatherhood, and Glenn Beck.
Mon Nov. 23, 2009 4:30 AM PST
Country music's most taciturn front man tells all in a new memoir.
Mon Oct. 19, 2009 3:30 AM PDT
Can a global climate pact save our behinds? Ask a game theorist.
Tue Sep. 29, 2009 2:59 AM PDT
Interview: Outright win would put Obama in a sticky spot, says Afghanistan scholar Thomas Barfield.
Mon Aug. 24, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
James Hider's atheist romp on the front lines of holy war.
Can this man's plan slash CO2, create millions of jobs, and save local government?
Fri May. 29, 2009 9:45 AM PDT
America's anti-IED strategy pits million-dollar technology against garage door openers.
Along the country's northwest border, remnants of an oppressive colonial era.
Who wants to be an Afghanistan expert? (Some not so trivial trivia.)
For basic rights, Kabul is a haven. Elsewhere, the stats remain grim.
The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini talks about homecomings and Taliban-censored flamingos. With audio.
The Kite Runner author discusses the current state of homeland, Afghanistan.
Fri Apr. 24, 2009 4:25 PM PDT
Thomas Barfield on Pashtun rebels and how Islamabad played Americans for suckers.
Soldier-scholar Andrew Bacevich talks about his hot new foreign policy book, a less-costly Afghanistan strategy, and why he's disappointed with both McCain and Obama.
Mon Oct. 13, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
Interview: The former national security adviser talks about the Bush legacy, the nation's direction, and why he's voting for Obama.
Bush and Rumsfeld may be history, but America's new global footprint lives on.
Fri Aug. 22, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
The former national security adviser on the Bush Pentagon's spending binge: "Do we really need that for our security?"
Fri Aug. 22, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
Shackled births, prisoner experiments, and rampant TB? Just another day
on the ward.
Who's more conservative, plastic surgeons or brain surgeons? We
tabulated presidential giving to see whether a donor's occupation can
predict which party will get the money.
The energy-efficiency guru who cofounded the Rocky Mountain Institute advocates feebates, negawatts, and letting the little guys play.
The author of The Hype About Hydrogen on the absurdity of electric pencil sharpeners, why concentrated solar thermal is promising, and which stocks he'd invest a million dollars in
Mon Apr. 21, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
In real-life experiments, mental collapse comes quickly.
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
The terrible trials endured on Solitary
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
If it involves prizes, beer, or bragging rights, the answer is almost anything.
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
Psychologist Phil Zimbardo explains how mild-mannered people become thugs.
Fri Mar. 14, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
Contestants on the Fox Reality show Solitary forgo sleep, food, and
dignity—all for a crack at $50,000.
An interview with author William Poundstone.
Wed Jan. 2, 2008 1:00 AM PST
Mount Rushmore? A monument on the Mall in Washington? Please. For the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, nothing short of a Gipper memorial in every single US county will do.
Thu Mar. 1, 2001 1:00 AM PST
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