The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 21
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Micah Sifry
Whither Nader and (his) Greens?

EDITORIAL
A sow's ear of an election

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's big mess in Texas;
Congress gets hoggier and hoggier;
From muckraking media to fluffmaking media;
Oil company hogs get fatter;
Billion-dollar 'blob' boondoggle;
Corporate sex on view

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Progressive Populist epoch

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Life in Hell

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farms need families

DISPATCHES
'Fair trade' pact wins labor applause

NIEL RITCHIE
StarLink Dumping

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Coverup claimed in ADM plea

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Police trend favors non-lethal force

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Why do companies get to veto safety regs?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Folic acid: a liberal's holiday story

JOHN BUELL
Pharmaceutical research and corporate hype

ROGER BYBEE
Selling free trade, and selling out workers

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Suicidal success

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
How to fix a broken tax system

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Tax-free corporations

MARK WEISBROT
Why Americans prefer sports to politics

JOHN NICHOLS
Nader ran on principle, as did La Follette

TED RALL
Candidates don't lust for anyone under 30

NAOMI KLEIN
Ralph Nader and the nadir of politics

MARJORIE KELLY
From rags to rags: stock option blues

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Get Nader!

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
After the elections

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Campaign 2000: Lots to forget

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Keep an eye on the battle for state legislatures

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
For New Democrats, maybe the jig is up

WAYNE O'LEARY
The passing of a political giant in Canada

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Cooling down

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Ancient highway sows seed of renewal

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Stop federalizing education tests

JESSE JACKSON
LA strike is microcosm of larger challenges

OUCH!/Public Citizen
Best Congress money can buy

JOEL DYER
Schools or prisons: It is a choice

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP military policies based on myths

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Censorship takes choices away

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
The other American

MOLLY IVINS
It's been surreal; it may get worse; Texas 'justice' ain't that great; Background on that hate crimes bill.

MAD DOG
Oops, I forgot to vote again

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen

We will have more election news in the next issue.


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