May 2006 Issue

Cover By Anita Kunz

Volume 70, Number 5

Editor’s Note

Letters

Comment Beware the Bombing of Iran

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Columns

Barbara Ehrenreich salutes the French.

Matthew Rothschild warns you to watch your bumper.

On the Line

Cover

No Housecleaning Gary Ruskin
Congress isn’t really for sale because the current owners are quite pleased with it.

Feature

Warren Anderson’s Silence Kirk Nielsen
Tracking down the man who presided over the Bhopal disaster.

Interview

Lewis Lapham Ruth Conniff
“There is a lot more feeling in favor of impeaching Bush than one would be led to believe by reading the mainstream media coverage,” says the former editor of Harper’s Magazine.

Culture

Children of the Mines Maria Garcia
The Devil’s Miner maps an evil without ever sacrificing the humanity of its subjects.

Branding in Bolivia Ed Morales
Former Bolivian President Gonzálo Sánchez de Lozado is the tragic figure of Rachel Boynton’s new film, Our Brand Is Crisis.

Kate Clinton reads between the holy lines.

Poem Kevin A. González

Books Anne-Marie Cusac reviews Conned, by Sasha Abramsky, and Decade of Nightmares, by Philip Jenkins.

Molly Ivins encourages us to support emerging democracies, like the U.S.