The June 2007 Issue

Cover By Tomer Hanuka

Volume 71, Number 6

Editor’s Note

Letters

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Columns

Barbara Ehrenreich spies Wal-Mart’s surveillance tactics.

Ruth Conniff watches Obama throw away his script and contend with Virginia Tech.

Howard Zinn eulogizes his friend Kurt Vonnegut.

Luis J. Rodríguez says addicts need healing, not jail time.

On the Line

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The Army Goes on Spring Break Kirk Nielsen
Enticing half-naked college kids to look up from their beer guzzling and beanbag tossing and contemplate enlistment.

Features

Maverick Mike Gravel Joe Lauria
For the former Senator from Alaska, opposing a foolish war is nothing new.

Interview

Joschka Fischer Amitabh Pal
Any U.S. military action against Iran “would lead the whole region into a very, very deep and dark hole,” says Germany’s former foreign minister and Green Party leader.

Culture

The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan Matt Pascarella
A new documentary records the election campaign of Afghan parliamentarian and feminist Malalai Joya.

Poem Dennis Trudell

Books Phil Haslanger reviews Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles.

Will Durst is a little worried about the Republicans.