Cover By Guy Billout
Volume 70, Number 12
Editor’s Note
Letters
Comment Finally, Comeuppance
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Columns
Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich hears a cry for help.
Luis J. Rodríguez identifies a better way to deal with gangs.
Matthew Rothschild profiles two people who were hassled for wearing a T-shirt with Arabic on it.
On the Line
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“Leave Us Alone,” Iranian Reformers Say Muhammad Sahimi
Why U.S. military intervention would backfire.
Features
A Conservative for Impeachment Brian Gilmore
Meet Bruce Fein, a former Reagan official who says President Bush is flagrantly violating the Constitution.
Interview
Wallace Shawn Elizabeth DiNovella
“It is astounding that America does work in the same way that an open dictatorship works, in that a handful of people really seem to be able to dominate an entire country,” says the playwright and actor.
Culture
Will Durst wants the VP to be transferred to Iraq.
The Price of Coffee Maria Garcia
Poem Spoon Jackson
Our Favorite Books of 2006
As chosen by Kate Clinton, Ruth Conniff, Anne-Marie Cusac, Elizabeth DiNovella, Susan J. Douglas, Barbara Ehrenreich, Andrea Lewis, John Nichols, Amitabh Pal, Luis J. Rodríguez, and Matthew Rothschild.
Molly Ivins catches the Bushies playing with numbers.