The Progressive POPULIST
A Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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COVER/Karen Winner
States Lead the Way in Demanding Quality Care for HMO Patients
EDITORIAL
Battlefield Conversion?
JIM HIGHTOWER
Re-Regulate Cable Rates
Trent's Trip to Fantasy Island
Taste Police Invade North Carolina
War Criminals
Luxury Lanes for the Rich
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot F. McMillen
Chickens Come Home to Roost
DISPATCHES
MAI Protests Accelerate
NFU Urges Action on Small Farms
Biotech Setback
NATIVE GROUND/Randolph Holhut
How 2 States Pay for Schools
REPORT/Craig McGrath
Right-Wing Spectacle: Dollars Have Strings
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Tokens of Friendship' Convict Lobbyist
TALES FROM EAST TEXAS/Carol Countryman
Not So Harmonious in Harmony, Texas
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Poison Pill for Workers
PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
Reality Avoidance
FOCUS ON CORPORATION/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corporate Pipers Call the Tune
WORK IN PROGRESS
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Radical Surgery
FOOD BYTES/Ronnie Cummins
Organic Rules: We Can't Afford to Lose
JOHN BUELL
Beyond Fed Watching
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Government for the Prosperous
REPORT/Joel Bleifuss
Know Thine Enemy:
A Brief History of Corporations
What To Do About Them.
COMMENT/Jean Hay
Corporations are People Too
DARYL LEASE
Joe Camel Turns on Big Tobacco
NEWSPEAK/Wayne Grytting
HMOs to the Rescue
COMMENT/Steven Hill
How to Bind the Nation
DAVID MORRIS
Electric Deregulation
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW/Sam Smith
BCCI: The Scandal That Got Away
TED RALL
Let the Good Slimes Roll
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Asian Meltdown and Capitalism
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Scandal Districts, Big Lies Persist
THE AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
Escalating Wars on Drugs and Migrants
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
A Lasting Tribute to Sonny Bono
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Wall Street's Bonus Babies
JESSE JACKSON
Stark Differences, Clear Choices
HAL CROWTHER
Hell to the Chief
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Back to the Dark Ages of Prison Policy
The Underbelly of Oprah's Lawsuit
MOLLY IVINS
Perhaps we should tidy the rubber room
What about feminists and the president?
Of political raving and a mad cow lawsuit
ESSAY/Wayne O'Leary
Those Generous Billionaires
CHARLIE WILSON
Morals and Fleas in Heavener
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