FEATURES
executive power
 Pursuit of Habeas
What Bush learned from the Sheriff of Nottingham.
By Jack Hitt
 Will the Next Prez Give the Power Back?
By David Cole
 The Librarians Who Shushed the Patriot Act
By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
PLUS: The sorry six: W’s worst judges
timeline
 Bush’s Greatest Hits
By Nick Baumann and Dave Gilson
economy
 How to Burn the Speculators
And why filling your tank halfway could help lower gas prices
By James K. Galbraith
 Party Favors: Land Handouts for Drillers
By Keith Kloor
PLUS: Take the Fed public, and Wall Street’s Wild West days will be numbered.
domestic priorities
 Medicare’s Poison Pill
What Bush’s signature health care initiative did to my drug budget
By James Ridgeway
 No Contractor Left Behind
By Josh Harkinson
 10 Ways to Satisfy Your President
By Stephanie Mencimer
PLUS: Why your meds are so sickeningly expensive
foreign policy
 Mission Creep
Our map of the new world order
By Michael Mechanic
Map by Karen Minot
 When the Military Gets Combat Fatigue
By Bruce Falconer
 Relief Disaster
By Joshua Kurlantzick
PLUS: What the Pentagon learned from Genghis Khan
science & health
 A Return to Reason
And an end to faith-based science
By Chris Mooney
 The Chinavore’s Dilemma
By Joshua Kurlantzick
 Tuna’s Mercury Surprise
By Stephanie Mencimer
legacy
 Control, Delete, Escape
What was gwb@wh.gov really up to? We’ll never know.
By Daniel Schulman
 Why Did the Press Let the President Lie?
By David Corn
how to fix it
Joseph Stiglitz, Valerie Plame Wilson, Philippe Sands, The Wire’s David Simon, and other experts on what the next president can do to clean house—pronto
 Exposure
No hang-ups: the inner lives of phone-sex operators
By Phillip Toledano
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DEPARTMENTS
Editors’ Note
Masthead
Contributors
Backtalk
OUTFRONT
Meet the Grand Obama Party; did the Three Gorges Dam cause China’s big quake?; McCain’s gay wedding woes; a catch-22 for Iraq detainees; how killing scars soldiers; the trouble with airline wires; Congressman Turner’s family values
SURVEY COURSE
By Kiera Butler and Leigh Ferrara
Our 15th annual student activism roundup
WITNESS
Do You Believe in Magic?
By Catherine Price
Jesus is magic: Gospel illusionists conjure true believers.
THE AUDACITY OF HYPE?
Has Barack Obama earned a place in the progressive hall of fame?
PRACTICAL VALUES
Immune to Reason
By Arthur Allen
Vaccine deniers are putting your kids at risk.
MEDIA JONES
Dave Gilson on why 9/11 conspiracy theorists can’t handle the truth; Bill Maher roasts religion; plus more book(Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Burmese Daze), film(Up the Yangtze, Heckler), and music(Chemical Chords, The Rhumb Line, Here With Me, Cold Fact) reviews
P.S.
Men far from Mars
Photographs by Ruaridh Stewart
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| September/October 2008