COVER/Judith Gorman
The Drug Companies' Golden Fleece
EDITORIAL
Gas prices and gas bags
JIM HIGHTOWER
Tailoring the law to fit the criminal;
Silicon Valley wage busters;
Greenspan's income distribution plan;
Vacuous political prognosticators;
Stacking the political deck;
Corporatizing our public parks.
DISPATCHES
Greens to Nader: Let's do it
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Summer reading list
CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Throw down the stick
BILL KNIGHT
Debt forgiveness: a response to globaloney
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
ADM racks up another $45M in fines
SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Center works to redefine American dream
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Libs protest Nader vote
JOHN BUELL
Gore as lesser evil?
JOHN NICHOLS
Gore keeps stumbling as labor fumes
TIM STYER, JUDY WICKS, HAL TAUSSIG
Why are so many left out in the cold?
REPORT/Marcia Passos Duffy
Working parents labor below poverty line
CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Challenging corporations
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Rock the boat?
PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
GOP's barking up wrong oil price tree
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
HMOs are a threat to your health
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Making a windfall in health care
CARLOS GUERRA
Penny-wise, pound foolish on health insurance
MARTY JEZER
Star wars hypocrisy
JESSE JACKSON
Common sense and Cuba
TED RALL
The rich are revolting
OUCH!/Public Campaign
Congressional candyland
WAYNE O'LEARY
The China sellout
MARK WEISBROT
Trade trumps human rights in court
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Los Alamos story is burning
SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Why should your boss spy on you?
KATHY NEWMAN
Miami vices: TV goes on vacation
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Stop the killing
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
New movement to criminalize protest
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Who wants to be president of Mexico?
GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
The seven-layer cake
STEVEN HILL & BOB RICHIE
Politicians even shake down their own
TED GLICK
Respecting your elders?
BILL BERKOWITZ
Priest steers Catholic Church rightward
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court rulings alter public policy, lives
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Hogging the water
MOLLY IVINS
Let's just have the rich buy the poor;
Stroll down memory lane;
Insurance;
Of school prayer and executions
BOB BOROSAGE
Now they tell us
This page posted June 30, 2000