Letter from the editor
REPORTS AND ANALYSIS
LANCE SELFA: A new political landscape
LEE SUSTAR: An Economic system on the edge
EDUARDO LUCITA: A crisis of capital
Battle at Boeing
FEATURES
Racial scapegoats for the crash
Conservatives are blaming the economic crisis on affirmative action, Phil Gasper writes in “Critical Thinking”
Capitalism’s worst crisis since the 1930s
Joel Geier
Beyond the surge in Iraq
Ashley Smith looks behind the hype about success in Iraq
Afghanistan: The new quagmire
Christian Parenti, interviewed by Helen Scott
Bolivia after the referendum
Jeffery Webber and Tom Lewis
Charter schools and the attack on public education
Sarah Knopp
Hothouse Earth: capitalism and climate change
First of two articles by Chris Williams
The echo effect of 1968
Mexican author Paco Ignacio Taibo II, interviewed by Todd Chretien
Energy imperialism
Lance Selfa reviews new books by Michael T. Klare and Andrew J. Bacevich
A life spent in struggle
Todd Chretien remembers Peter Miguel Camejo, 1939–2008
REVIEWS
What to read about Afghanistan
Charles T. Peterson reviews five recent books
PLUS: Hooked on prescription drugs; Deadly lines on the map; Overblowing the risks of terror attack
L E T T E R S
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