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
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.
This page posted Nov.11, 2000