COVER/Staff
NAFTA's a disaster, so why expand it?
EDITORIAL
No confidence in 'fair trade' platitudes
JIM HIGHTOWER
Our corporate China policy; Bushwa; Bush-whacking energy sanity;
Market shouts at Monsanto; High Church of High Populorum; Mad cows
and beautiful lips
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Having Einstein's clone
DISPATCHES
Bush smiles, then slashes
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Computer predicts world collapse
BILL BERKOWITZ
Turning up the heat on the White House
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
ADM chronicler focuses on informant
SAM URETSKY
Who's minding the hospitals?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Slippery slope of cost-effectiveness
JOHN BUELL
Education and its corporate doomsayers
PENELOPE REEDY
New economizing
BILL CULLEN
Feds crack down on protesting nuns
DEBBIE ORTMAN
Safe summer lawn care
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
More and better voices needed for labor
PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Full speed ahead
RHETORIC VS. REALITY
Measuring trade agreements
MARK WEISBROT
It's not about 'free trade'
NAOMI KLEIN
Numbers extolling free trade don't add up
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Corporate gravy smothers Bush's 'fat-free' budget
STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Computers make redistricting messier
WAYNE O'LEARY
The long goodbye
SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
All the white news that's fit to print
JESSE JACKSON
Today's civil rights choice
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Making police accountable
CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Civil rights include worker rights
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Hotheads under hot lights
MARTY JEZER
Made in China
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
When the census stops making sense
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Remembering April 19, 1995
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Gaps in meat inspection threaten health
FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Seize the moment for democracy
OUCH!/Public Campaign
Budget eclipse
KEN BRESLER
Get ert to fight corporate welfare
DAVID SIROTA
The failure of populism?
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Slash-and-drill report and Bush budget havoc
JOYCE MARCEL
'Friends' may be our enemy
MOLLY IVINS
Our fake energy crisis; Handling China in true Texas fashion
TED RALL
Deconstructing Bush's phony victory
PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Power of the wealthy limits our options
JOHN NICHOLS
Not all Democrats shun Nader
This page posted May 1, 2001