The Midas Touch
By Kenneth Miller
Is an Alaska fishery worth its weight
in gold? Runoff from the Pebble Mine could threaten the world’s most abundant source of salmon.

The Bible Bench
By Margaret Ebrahim
For state judges nationwide, Election Day is starting to feel more like Judgment Day.

Born Into Cellblocks
Photographs By Penny De Los Santos.

Text By Charles Bowden
In the penitentiary of Nuevo Laredo, children do time with their mothers—and the cartels.

Upward Mortality
By Kai Wright
A curse is felling a generation of successful black men: Why can’t the black middle class shed the burden of bad health?

Editor’s Note
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Contributors
Backtalk

OUTFRONT
The Predator State; A terror detainee gets a lifeline; Looking for work? Just ask your mommy or daddy on the Hill; the Feds trade jobs for bombs; reincarnation of a Buddha smasher; Trent Lott blows a new tune; sex toys suit up for court; Congress joins the iPod generation; the man behind the Iraqi casualty numbers.

EXHIBIT By Clara Jeffery
The Perks of Privilege
A view from the top.

SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD By Joann Wypijewski
Ecce Homo
An artists’ messiah appears in the Texas desert.

WITNESS By Nick Miroff
Encounters With the Torturer
A Chilean ex-prisoner confronts his torturers.

PRACTICAL VALUES By Dashka Slater
Confessions of a 401(k) Schizophrenic
Guilt-free investing for the socially conscious soul.

MEDIA JONES
Eleanor Cooney on zombie movies that’ll pick your brains; Hotel Rwanda’s real-life hero explains to Julia M. Klein why he’s An Ordinary Man; a birder’s guide to Iraq; plus more book and
music reviews

RE:ACTION
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P.S.
Power Yoga
Cartoon by Barry Blitt