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In this issue

Editor’s Note
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Letters
Comment The Iranian Example
On the Line
Columns

J. Rodríguez visits a segregated school.

Barbara Ehrenreich spies a future for journalists.

Cover

Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style Naomi Klein Hers is the view that there will always be another frontier, another Alaska, another bubble, and tomorrow will never come.

Features

“Throwing Dust in the Eyes of Our People” Malalai Joya Afghanistan’s outspoken feminist member of parliament says the coming election is just for show.

Get Rid of Your Nukes Mikhail Gorbachev “The nuclear danger can only be removed by abolishing nuclear weapons,” says the former head of the Soviet Union.

Lethal Sting Vince Beiser The cops offered Rachel Hoffman a deal: Become an informant, and we’ll drop the marijuana charge. But then nothing went right.

Poem Sam Hamill

Interview

William Greider Ruth Conniff “The old order is gone,” says the author. “So what do we do now as a country?”

Culture Green Day Never Gives Up Antonino D’Ambrosio The band’s latest album navigates the chaos Bush left in his wake.

Kate Clinton relishes the current summer of love.

Dave Zirin tags the Pentagon out for taking over PE.

Books

Moustafa Bayoumi reviews Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole, and Sowing Crisis, by Rashid Khalidi.

Jim Hightower points a flashlight at the new oil cheats.