March/April 2007

• Sunni, Shiite?... Anyone? Anyone?

  By Robert Dreyfuss and Dave Gilson
  Everything you need to know about Iraq but are afraid to ask.

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DEPARTMENTS

• Editors' Note
• Masthead
• Contributors
• Backtalk

OUTFRONT

Inside a born-again abortion clinic; Beltway brawls; why gay marriage is good for business; James K. Galbraith on Bush's Capitol gains; Kurdistan's guerrilla girls; coca adds life; sibling rivalry along the border; immigrant nannies get organized; game faces; and presidential signing bonuses.

NOTEBOOK

For Sale by Owners

By Randall Patterson
How a legal loophole is forcing the descendants of slaves to sell their land to developers.

MEDIA JONES

Dennis Cass brains the pop neurologists; director Mira Nair talks about her movie The Namesake; chest-thumping Bible thumpers; plus more book (Poor People, Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders, One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers), film (An Unreasonable Man, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple), and music reviews (Alright, Still, VietNam, Phantom Punch, State of Grace).

RE:ACTION

Resources for getting involved

Resources for getting involved

PRACTICAL VALUES

iWaste

By Giles Slade
Ten thousand songs in your pocket. Ten thousand years in a landfill.

P.S.

Coming Home

Painting by Owen Smith

FEATURES

Reversal of Fortune
By Bill McKibben
For centuries, the formula was simple: Get rich, then live happily ever after. What changed?

PLUS:  Happiness: A photo essay by Brian Ulrich.

Breaking the News
By Eric Klinenberg
Don't blame the Internet. It's the relentless pursuit of huge profits that is killing off America's newspapers.

PLUS:  The tribulations of the L.A. Times, why bloggers need the MSM, our shrinking media universe, the full transcript of Sridhar Pappu's interview with Dan Baquet, and Stop the Presses: a statistical snapshot of our rapidly shrinking media universe.

Are You There, George? It's Me, Ava.
By Samantha M. Shapiro
Meet the 16-year-old homeschooler whose antiwar video website gets 30,000 hits a day.

Thrown to the Assassins
By David Case
They welcomed us as liberators. Now the United States is leaving its last Iraqi friends out in the cold.

Hail Mary
By Bill Donahue
Sneaking into a pizza billionaire's cloistered Catholic utopia.

Bush photo on cover by Brooks Kraft/Corbis