EDITORIALS

Letter from the editor

Obama's mixed message

REPORTS AND ANALYSIS

Behind the myths about Hamas

Israel and South Africa--a tale of two apartheids

Australia: Crisis down under

FEATURES

Return of the one-state solution
Phil Gasper makes the case for a single democratic state in all of Palestine

The Road to Gaza's killing fields
Toufic Haddad draws a balance sheet on Israel's offensive in Gaza

Colombia: the right wing counteroffensive
Ernesto Herrera on the role of Colombia in Washington's plans for Latin America

Hothouse Earth: Capitalism, climate change, and the fate of humanity
The second and final installment of Chris Williams' analysis of global warming

The New Deal: Myth and Reality
An excerpt from Lance Selfa's new book The Democrats: A Critical History

SPECIAL SECTION ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

The U.S. economic crisis: Causes and solutions
Fred Moseley

Prospects for a new labor movement
Kim Moody

Looking at the crisis through Marx
Ben Fine

REVIEWS

Manufacturing the "silent majority"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Rick Perlstein's Nixonland

Food and the fight for social justice
Nicole Colson reviews Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved

PLUS: The American way of poverty; Uprising on the inside; A social democratic plan for Obama; A "New Keynesian" prescription

LETTERS

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