March / April 2007

\| 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. PLUS: Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank on how the war has spawned more terrorists.

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.				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. PRACTICAL VALUES iWaste By Giles Slade Ten thousand songs in your pocket. Ten thousand years in a landfill. 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 P.S. Coming Home Painting by Owen Smith