November 2005 Issue

\| November 2005 The Ohio Insurgency By David Goodman How does a liberal Iraq-war veteran almost get elected congressman from conservative Ohio? If he’s Paul Hackett, by speaking his mind, and not backing down. Democrats are taking notes. P L U S : Mark Hertsgaard reviews the evidence about the theft of Ohio by Bush in ’04.

FEATURES Respectable Reefer By Gary Greenberg If you pharmaceuticalize marijuana, the drug warriors will come over to your side. At least, that’s what the makers of Sativex are hoping. P L U S : Q&A with Harvard’s Lester Grinspoon, dean of the medical marijuana movement. Sea Change Photographs By Andrew Testa/Panos Text By Monika Bauerlein Thailand’s “sea gypsies” survived the tsunami only to face a greater threat: tourism.				Who Holds the Clicker? By Lauren Slater Doctors and medical-device makers are promoting neural pacemakers as a cure for treatment-resistant depression. Welcome to implant nation. Left Alone By Garret Keizer On the activist’s temptation to retreat from fighting the good fight into living the good life.

DEPARTMENTS Editor's Note Masthead Contributors Backtalk OUTFRONT The Continental Divide; Assassin nation: A last Basra dispatch from Steven Vincent; the Aaron Burr Award for constitutional devotion; what color is your CEO’s parachute?; the U.S. drug czar’s battle with Canada’s prince of pot; watchdogs of the Orange Revolution P L U S : A special investigation into aircraft safety Whistleblowers attest that Boeing’s big jets are accidents waiting to happen. Flight Risk, our ongoing Boeing coverage. EXHIBIT The Watched The eyes of everyone are upon you. SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD Whitewash By Joann Wypijewski In Greensboro, North Carolina, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is putting an end to a decades-long whitewash. WITNESS On the Banks of the Chixoy By Michal LumsdenIn Guatemala the “beneficiaries” of CAFTA include villagers whose town is threatened by a dam. MEDIA JONES Was Ohio stolen? Mark Hertsgaard reviews the case (and you might not like the answer); George Clooney poses as an investigative journalist; plus more book, music, and film reviews RE:ACTION Resources for getting involved P.S. Freelance Intelligent Designers Cartoon by David Fullarton