The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 17
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Stacy Mitchell
Jack and the giant school

EDITORIAL
Pro-choice: Make Nader a debater

JIM HIGHTOWER
The WTO strikes again;
Pro-business ticket;
Clinton goes to war in Colombia;
Life in Clinton's dream world;
Michael Milken's new moniker;
Starbucks and 'The Times' get synergistic.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The giant fish that got away

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Making the customer care

JIM CULLEN
Nader on a roll

KEN BRESLER
For change, switch to instant runoff voting

RALPH NADER
Nader challenges the rule of agribusiness

SOLUTIONS/Kent Paterson
Lay health movement spreads to US

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Hospitals-as-businesses: unhealthy notion

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
How to solve the health care mess

TED RALL
From Russia, deported with love

KEN JEROME-STERN
State campaign finance reform is key

WAYNE O'LEARY
Gore's Lieberman gambit

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Smile, you're on candid camera

JOHN NICHOLS
Years of conservative pose could hurt Gore

NAOMI KLEIN
Don't bother looking to UN for help

MARK WEISBROT
Great myths and false promises

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
There's a real difference between parties

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Ask no questions, Gore & Bush tell no lies

MARTY JEZER
Nixon's treason

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Striking for the future of labor

JOHN BUELL
The importance of Labor Day

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Real life too raw for 'Real TV'

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Watchdogs have a blind spot for selves

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
The politics of fear

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Pentagon auctions the Presidency

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
The faces of hope

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Big banks on campus

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Time for a labor agenda

JESSE JACKSON
Your vote counts

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Fusion tickets

LOYAL OPPOSITION/David Corn
Liberals attack Nader

DISPATCHES
Farmers propose estate tax reforms

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Cheney slips on oil

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Class war in America

MOLLY IVINS
Bush needs remedial schooling on education;
Before Texas spends more on prisons, let's think;
I'm not a better person, but I'm grateful.

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
New congressional agenda


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