Playing the race card Racism is alive and well in the 2008 presidential election, argues PHIL GASPER in his Critical Thinking column
Lenin's return? HELEN SCOTT, PAUL LeBLANC, and LARS LIH discuss Lenin's relevance today and how historians have gotten him wrong
1968: Year of revolutionary hope JOEL GEIER tells of how the struggles of 1968 in France and the United States created an explosion of radical politics
Unmasking the Six-Day War HADAS THIER reviews Tom Segev's book on Israel's role in the war that reshaped the Middle East
Poverty wages KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR reviews a new edition of David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness
PLUS: Torture as the occupier's tool The right wing's plot to overthrow FDR Human cost of illegal abortion
Howard Zinn on resistance from below The Lawrence strike through children's eyes The media and the UPS strike