The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Borosage
New Majority for Progressive Reform

EDITORIAL
Nader in for the long haul

JIM HIGHTOWER
Everyone's vote should count; The missing ballots; What's in your cornflakes? WTO sob story; Murder on the highway; What's in a name?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
It ain't right, but it's so

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Finding profit on the farm

MARTIN CLARK
Free trade: Good for whom?

DISPATCHES

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Court rejects ADM bid to bar tapes

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Fish farming 'revolution' yields problems

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Dear Santa, how about universal health?

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Drug giants invest $80M, expect payoffs

JOEL DYER
Uncertainty fuels anti-Semite paranoia

J. DOROSHOW & S. HALPERN
Chamber of Commerce attacking judiciary

MIKE PROKOSCH
Realizing Seattle's potential

WAYNE O'LEARY
Surviving the new oil crunch

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Unionbusting is big business

UNDERNEWS/Sam Smith
Culture wars

JIM CULLEN
Gridlock looks good in 107th Congress

DAVID BACON
Why is the Democratic Party shrinking?

MARK WEISBROT
$3B campaign ends in gridlock

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Stalemate: A terrific ending

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
The presidential who-wun-it

MICHAEL BETZOLD
Double fault

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Dropping out of Electoral College

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Scrap the Electoral College

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Turning crisis into opportunity

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Let a thousand lawsuits bloom

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
In defense of Nader

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Public is wiser than pundits

JOHN BUELL
Media myopia

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Restoring legitimacy to the office

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Happy days

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Ways to spur democracy

JESSE JACKSON
Every vote counts

MICHAEL MOORE
Presidency: just another perk

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Midgets battle, giants fall

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The Arch-Druid passes

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
When Congress locks up public lands, it's OK

TED RALL
Electoral limbo

MOLLY IVINS
We've been entertained, now let's be chipper;
The right to seek justice in Florida;
Let's at least get a modern voting process out of this

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Walk the way the wind blows

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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