COVER/Frosty Troy
Dunces of public education reform
EDITORIAL
Campaign down to the wire
JIM HIGHTOWER
Congress suckered into China trade scam;
Finding money for Pentagon 'readiness';
Rewarding failure; Fight mandatory arbitration;
Media heavies suppress free press;
Stripping the news to the bare necessities.
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Crap shoot
CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Bank on taste and good will
DISPATCHES
People want populist issues discussed
ROGER
HICKEY
Progressive argument against Nader vote
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'All the news that's fit to print,' except ADM
SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Do ballot initiatives favor big business?
LEE MORTIMER
Elections give voters too little say
MARTY JEZER
Give us health care choices
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
ER: Not for television
BILL BERKOWITZ
Truth about trade? Attack on trade protesters
NAOMI KLEIN
When journalists go bad
CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Bank to debtors: Social spending must go
KEN JEROME-STERN
Globalization's onward march
MARK WEISBROT
Candidates ignore poverty in 2000 elections
MATT WELCH
Contrarian Nader begins to riff
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Downturn? What downturn?
JOHN BUELL
Presidential campaigns as corporate circuses
TED RALL
The frittering away of America
PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Fuzzy math
FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Let's win some
WAYNE O'LEARY
Unsportsmanlike conduct at the Olympics
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Hate in any language is still hate
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Lament for the Holy Land
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
'The handshake': Clinton's Mid-East legacy
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Truth is stranger than science fiction
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Fluoride--an ounce of prevention
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Free the DC 500,000
JESSE JACKSON
The big lie
OUCH!/Public Citizen
Soft promises
HAL CROWTHER
Alone on the cliff
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Bush gaffe in debate worse than stupid
BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Art of political warfare
DISPATCHES
'W's missing year' followup
MOLLY IVINS
It's a whole 'nother election;
Governor, that nose is growing;
Wanted: Real differences on military spending
PRIMAL SCREED/James McC.
Yeager
Don't celebrate, organize
This page posted Oct. 28, 2000