The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 1, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 10
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Hal Crowther
With trembling fingers

EDITORIAL
The last fig leaf

JIM HIGHTOWER
Hair net in your future; Riches flow uphill; Making a splash; Friendly cable-TV gouger; Nanotech 'progress'; Cross of political infamy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Swingers at Westminster

DISPATCHES
Are you better off? Polluters back Bush; Few Mad Cow tests; Ariz. Clean Elections threat ...

GEOV PARRISH
Disappearing act in rural Iowa

MICHAEL POLLAN
Exporting cheap corn and ruin

GREG GORDON
Wolves educate us

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Fair prices and concentration

TED RALL
Kerry should go nuts for guns

JOHN BUELL
Presidential politics as morality play

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
Getting in Bush's faith

JOHN NICHOLS
Kerry needs to get focused

PHIL TAJITSU NASH
McCarthy, Brown and Dien Bien Phu

MAX SAWICKY
The coming GOP meltdown

ED GARVEY
Drafting democracy

HOLLY SKLAR
Outsource CEOs, not workers

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Digging in against gerrymandering

BOB CUDDY
Bush revises Truman: 'Buck stops there'

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Footprints in temple: 'Free trade' scam

NATHAN NEWMAN
Taking on Wal-Mart and subcontractors

JESSE JACKSON
Kerry can't afford to go negative

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Do you recognize Bush's America?

GENE LYONS
Empire-building isn't pretty

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Medicare drug card lotto: The new bingo

SAM URETSKY
Treat children before the rich

LISA ALBERS
Kucinich is no commie

WAYNE O'LEARY
Feeling safer now?

ROGER BYBEE
W favors rich, but Kerry 'no redistributionist'

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Nader factor

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Media stays the course in Iraq

VALERIE ORTH
Shop for justice

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
No quiero cerveza or Taco Bell

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Torture as American as apple pie

JAMES O. CASTAGNERA
Will Supreme Court stand for civil rights?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
'Caveat emptor' is not consumer policy

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Rainbow reborn?

JAMES EGGERT
Dreaming of John Ashcroft

JOYCE MARCEL
Her beautiful mind

RECOVERY/Larry Kearney
Put money where it's needed

BOOK/Alvena Bieri
How to talk with right-wingers

GREG PALAST
Hey mogul &emdash; let Moore have his say

MOLLY IVINS
Just like Saddam? Neo-con man; Sinners unite!

DONALD KAUL
Least worst for president


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