July/August 2006

Souls on Ice: Frozen Embryos and the Wasted Promise of Stem Cell Research
By Liza Mundy
How 500,000 frozen embryos are changing the way Americans think about life and choice.

An Accident Waiting to Happen: Is Air Safety Oversight Taking a Vacation?
By Jim Morris and Frank Koughan
Airlines are fixing their planes in Taiwan, and the FAA is cutting back on inspections.

Three Days in Rome: Plotting Regime Change in Iran
By Laura Rozen
Meeting secretly just after 9/11, Iran-Contra alumni, anxious neocons, and disgraced exiles set their sights on Tehran.

War for Oil: Next We Take Tehran
By Robert Dreyfuss
As the Bush administration sets its sights on Iran, the reason has more to do with oil than with nukes.

Rock the Junta: Revolutionary Headbangers in Burma
By Scott Carrier
Burmese Christian metalheads rage against the machine.

Editor's Note
Masthead
Contributors
Backtalk

OUTFRONT
The (Immigrant) Kids Are All Right: The Next Labor Movement; The new voice of immigrant rights; gold's heavy costs; off the beaten path in coal country; working hard at hardly working in D.C.; a 21-Harley salute for fallen GIs; India's unsinkable anti-dam activist; still doing a heckuva job for Katrina victims; Bush to Iran: "You had me at 'homophobia.'";

EXHIBIT
By Clara Jeffery
Poor Losers: How the deck is stacked against poor Americans.

SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD
The Way of All Flesh: Christian Kink
By Joann Wypijewski
Christian marriage advisers say kinky's okay, the observant way.

WITNESS
Justice Comes for Charles Taylor
By Joshua Hammer
Liberian strongman Charles Taylor's long run from justice comes to an end. Maybe.

PRACTICAL VALUES
Open Road, Clear Conscience
By Frank Bures
Traveling light: tips for leaving gringo guilt at home when you're on holiday.

MEDIA JONES
Kevin Drum on those tongue-tied liberals; an interview with Wole Soyinka, master of disguise; plus more book and music reviews

RE:ACTION
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P.S.
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Cartoon by David Fullarton