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Why AIG Went Down Internal company documents reveal the insurance giant's fuzzy accounting masked its risky dealings. —By Nick Baumann MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: The Gorilla in the Hearing Room: Coverage of the Lehman Hearing McCain's 83 Wall Street Lobbyists McCain Blasts Wall Street Failure, But His Adviser Helped Cause It A Taste of the Glass-Steagall Lash for Lehman Palin's Email Cover-up By using at least one private email account for state business, Sarah Palin has virtually guaranteed her official emails will not become public until after the election. —By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Sarah Palin's 1,100 Withheld Emails Has a State Law Been Broken Here? Full Coverage of the Eerily-Similar White House Emails Scandal Debate II—McCain Offers a Man; Obama Offers More This was not The Night That McCain Attacks. The GOP candidate stuck mainly to policy differences, and Obama outperformed him on points, style, and, most important, message. —By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: MoJo Blog Debate Live Blog Kevin Drum's Debate Live Blog Veep Debate: Ending the Palin Reality TV Show Reality Trumps Politics in First Debate Top Stories 1 2 3
Desperately Seeking Sarah's Secrets The state of Alaska has been snowed under with open records requests related to Governor Sarah Palin. Wanna know what the national press is looking for? Supreme Court Snapshot The Supreme Court is back in session. Your guide to the notable cases on the high court's docket. —By Stephanie Mencimer The Gorilla in the Hearing Room Lehman Brothers' Richard "The Gorilla" Fuld told a congressional panel that his firm was the victim of a "crisis of confidence." But was it the CEO's overconfidence that doomed the investment bank? —By Daniel Schulman A McCain Flip-Flop on bin Laden? In August, McCain decried Clintonites for not treating al Qaeda as a serious threat. But weeks after those attacks, McCain told us he wondered if bin Laden was "really the bad guy that's depicted." —By David Corn Bill Maher v. Religion Caustic comedian Bill Maher on his new movie Religulous, bargaining with God, and why Christianity is just as crazy as Scientology. —By Elizabeth Gettelman A Setback for Nonproliferation? The Senate greenlights the Bush administration's plan to supply nuclear technology to India, despite warnings that doing so could send the wrong signal to Iran and other atomic aspirants. —By Bruce Falconer Veep Debate: Ending the Palin Reality TV Show The polls gave Biden the win, but Palin stopped her political free-fall. Now McCain can reclaim his own campaign's spotlight. —By David Corn The Future Behind Us Spying on the Future: The U.S. Intelligence Community as Seers Without Sizzle. —By Tom Engelhardt Swift Boaters Start Your Engines If Obama is hit with an attack ad fusillade, this secretive GOP operative will likely be behind the onslaught. —By Stephanie Mencimer Fireside Chat As the financial crisis snowballs, Sarah Palin sits down to calm the nation's nerves. Donchya worry. —By Mark Fiore McCain Exaggerating Past with Palin? Asked if he can rely on foreign policy advice from Palin, McCain says he has "turned to her many times in the past." But he only talked to her three times before putting her on the ticket. —By David Corn Poker, Hookers, and Black Contracts: Or How To Make a CIA Trial Go Away It wasn't the staff mistress that concerned Langley's spymasters when CIA official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo pled guilty to wire fraud this week. It was the 27 other charges he faced. —By Laura Rozen Do Taxpayers Need Marriage Workshops? Rabbi Stephen Baars is here from the government to help your love life. —By Stephanie Mencimer The Bailout Blame Game Why did the Wall Street bailout bill collapse? Nancy Pelosi hurt our feelings, says the GOP. —By David Corn Why the Bailout Sells America Short As the House says no to the Wall Street rescue package, a former Wall Streeter explains why the plan was a bad deal. —By Nomi Prins The Palin Fear Factor Some voters are scared of the prospect of a black president. Can Obama convince them that they really should be petrified of a Palin vice presidency? —By James Ridgeway Zip It, Soldier! More enlisted are speaking out against the Iraq War—and facing harsh consequences. —By Justine Sharrock Five Alternative Bailout Plans Are there other approaches to the problem besides putting the Treasury in charge of a $700 billion fire sale? Yes. Here's a quick roundup. —By Nick Baumann Reality Trumps Politics in First Debate The first Obama-McCain face-off yielded little excitement and not much reason to pronounce a winner. —By David Corn Two Staffers Violating McCain's Conflict Rules? The McCain campaign says aides are banned from working with outside groups that run political ads. But two McCain officials lobby for the NRA, which has slammed Obama in TV spots. —By David Corn The Spies Who Love Obama Why some of Bush's intel professionals are now working for a Democrat—and how they'd reform the CIA. Part Two in a series on the candidates' national security policies. —By Laura Rozen Flight of the Diplomats Midlevel foreign-service officers are fleeing the US State Department in droves. Guess who's taking their place? —By Joshua Kurlantzick Top Alaska GOPer Hits McCain-Palin Campaign on Troopergate A leading Republican legislator in Alaska says she is "absolutely disgusted" by the McCain campaign's efforts to shut down an investigation into Sarah Palin. —By David Corn McCain's 83 Wall Street Lobbyists The GOP candidate has denounced Wall Street lobbyists. But McCain's campaign is loaded with them. —By David Corn, Jonathan Stein, and Nick Baumann more...				Debate II—McCain Offers a Man; Obama Offers More Hack-A-Vote "That One": Condescending, Not Racist Debate Live Blog Reversing Course, California Gay Marriage Ban Ahead in the Polls Why AIG Went Down MP3: Brett Dennen – "Make You Crazy" Google Earth Adds Ocean View Palin's (Functional Equivalent of an) Email Cover-up Vladimir Putin Would Totally Kick Your Ass more... Tompkins Square Park (PowerHouse book excerpt) Homeless people and their supporters protest for affordable housing on Avenue A. July 1989 Summer, 1988. Tompkins Square Park, which long served as a makeshift home for the homeless and a center for social unrest, erupted in violence when the New York City Police and hundreds of protesters clashed over ideological differences... (continued) Submit a photo RE: "McCain Has a Decision to Make on Jeremiah Wright" Palin the pit bull will gleefully spew nonsense to her base about Wright and Ayers. That is her job and her only strength in this campaign. She is tone deaf and insensitive to Americans' hardships and appears only too happy to carry out McCain's dirty work because he does not have the guts to do it himself. It is fascinating to watch her deliver false claims that Obama is "pallying" around with terrorists. She speaks about Ayers as if she knows who he is—and I doubt seriously if she has ever heard of him. Stock Markets around the world were crashing today, Americans are losing their jobs and watching their 401ks shrink, and many will wonder if they can feed their families in the next few weeks. Palin is showing her concern by attacking Obama. I shutter at the thought that McCain/Palin could win this election—Palin makes Cheney look like a boyscout. Posted by: nnorman51 October 6, 2008 2:57 PM Mission Creep: Military Dispatches The $700 Billion Bailout Plan's Fine Print Will the Government Bailout Work? Bill Maher’s Top 12 Pals and Punching Bags Inside the Firefox's Den A Taste of the Glass-Steagall Lash for Lehman Vaccine Skeptics vs. Your Kids Strains of Resistance Is the Fannie/Freddie Bailout "Socialism"? Update: Flames on a Plane Sarah Palin: A Big Boon for Big Oil The MoJo Interview: Sophie Uliano How to Fix America: More Advice for the Next First 100 Days How to Fix It: Remember Polk, Grant, and Harding How to Fix It: Trust Gen Y How to Fix It: Build a Bigger, Better Medicare Here at Mother Jones, smart, fearless journalism is what we do. And we rely on people like you to keep nonprofit, independent investigative journalism alive and kicking. Help us speak truth to power by visiting websites like the National Coalition Against Censorship and demand Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and defend your right to know. Want to continue making a change? Don't stop there. Visit the Mother Jones Investigative Fund for more ways you can help make a difference.