The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 1, 2001 -- Volume 7, Number 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Sam Parry
Nothing is free about free trade

EDITORIAL
Health care for all

JIM HIGHTOWER
Bush's balancing act;
Peek into Bush's true heart;
Keep pushing for campaign reform;
You can find the future in Fargo;
Food fight; Hardship at the top

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Farm dogs are special

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Acting locally

DEBBIE ORTMAN
In defense of dandelions!

LEM HARRIS
Agribiz fattens while farmers keep slipping

DISPATCHES
Herald overlooks ballots, declares Bush won

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Merchants of greed

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Cities debate mass transit using natural gas

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
A little arsenic water with that tainted beef?

JOHN BUELL
Alternative perspectives on school violence

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Romance in a time of pharmacology

SILICON LOUNGE/Donna Ladd
Getting burned over free speech

NATHAN NEWMAN
Mobilize now against right-wing judges

WAYNE O'LEARY
Class warfare, Republican style

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Court zaps worker rights

MARK WEISBROT
Economy needs straight talk, action

JOHN NICHOLS
'Progressive Dane' gives winning model

JOYCE MARCEL
Save our downtowns

BOB BOROSAGE
Thank you, Mr. President, may I have another?

JESSE JACKSON
The children left behind

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
In search of a level playing field

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
Capital idea: Make the rich pay taxes!

S. WILSON & H. BECKER
We didn't come all this way for no 2 seats

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Double standards on ads

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The noise on I-40

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media finance reform

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Greed and newspapering

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
After I get out of prison ...

MADE IN THE USA/Joel Joseph
China is a rogue nation

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Bush divides and conquers

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Fannie Lou Hamer

OUCH!/Public Campaign
Oily math

SAM SMITH
What progressives can do during Bush years

TED RALL
Defense of Nader: Rationalization for a spoiler

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Deception a tool to plunder monuments

BOOKS/Alvena Bieri
Paper or plastic?

MOLLY IVINS
Bush, Rove & Co. swimming in denial;
McCain-Feingold: Big win for little people

FRANK LINGO
Bush begins plundering planet

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
There's a reason we call it Social Security


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