\| March/April 2008 The Final Act of Abu Ghraib By JoAnn Wypijewski A front row seat at the military scandal's farcial last trial. Am I a Torturer? By Justine Sharrock Ben Allbright watched the Daily Show, worships Dave Eggers—and still wound up "softening up" prisoners in Iraq. Voluntary Confinement By Michael Mechanic Contestants on the Fox Reality show Solitary forgo sleep, food, and dignity—all for a crack at $50,000. Department of Pre-Crime By Eric Umansky Why are citizens being locked up for "UnAmerican" thoughts? The Body Snatchers By Peter Bergen Inside the CIA's extraordinary rendition program and the bungled abduction of would-be terrorists. As a public service, Mother Jones, which is a nonprofit magazine, will release the full contents of this issue online over the next several weeks. If you'd like your Mother Jones sooner—and you want to support independent investigative journalism—please subscribe now.

FEATURES Depth of Field Photographs By Danny Wilcox Frazier Text By Ted Genoways Iowa, after the party's over Blackwater's World of Warcraft By Bruce Falconer and Daniel Schulman The private security boom goes global. Mulch Madness By Michael Behar Louisiana's cypress forest—the state's best hurricane barrier—is being logged into oblivion. Meet the man who speaks for the trees.				DEPARTMENTS Editors' Note Masthead Contributors Backtalk OUTFRONT The arbitration generation; textbook jihad; 527s back on the warpath; does this robe make my butt look racist?; the iron man cometh; how China—and Austria—run guns to Darfur; great moments in the his/herstory of gender-neutral pronouns; subprime's other culprits; cokeheads get hurt by the dollar's nosedive; why you should start stockpiling beer EXHIBIT Petophilia By Elizabeth Gettelman and Dave Gilson Dogs with blogs, urban tigers, edible pet pigs, and other tales from our mass menagerie WITNESS Bombs Away! By David Case The Pentagon says its missiles can take out terrorists with laserlike precision. Too bad they keep killing the wrong people. PRACTICAL VALUES Nocturnal Emissions By Hannah Wallace Good night, sleep tight—don't let the volatile organic compounds bite. MEDIA JONES Hollywood launches the golden age of ecotainment; pop-art provocateur Shepard Fairey; Vanity Fair's delusions of greendeur; plus book(Dog Man, The Ten-Cent Plague, The Man Who Pushed America to War), film(Chicago 10), and music(Everywhere at Once, The Hands, B.I.P.P.P.: French Synthwave 1979-85, Transnormal Skiperoo) reviews P.S. Holy hardworking immigrants, Batman! Photographs by Dulce Pinzón