The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 15, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 16
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Molly Ivins
Al Gore discovers 'New Populism'

EDITORIAL
The race is on

JIM HIGHTOWER
Buying political conventions;
Totally corporate vice president;
Team Bush: Pioneers;
Carnivore eats your e-mail;
Sorrows behind pink slips;
High-flying showers.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Feeding the hand that bites you

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
The nose knows

LEM HARRIS
Importance of family farms

DISPATCHES
Nader to MasterCard: 'Lighten up'

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
'Rats in the Grain' is must reading

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Community groups' clout in health battles

JOHN BUELL
Revisiting the cancer war

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Uninvited to the campaign

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Predatory drug firms victimize us

KATHERINE LEMONS
Bush bought by phony grassroots groups

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Rising tide widens wealth gap

HARRY BOYTE
Populism calls us to be more than protesters

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
The weakness of the left

FRANK LINGO
The best country money can buy

PARTING SHOTS
Popping balloons after the D's convention

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Lives in the balance

SEN. RUSS FEINGOLD
Clean up the conventions

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The week that was: unconventional diary

GRANNY D/Doris Haddock
Clear out the special interests

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
Reading entrails, crumbling cookies

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
D's: Don't stop winking about tomorrow

WAYNE O'LEARY
Repealing the rich man's tax

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Social Insecurity: Betting on the future

JEAN HAY
Alter-Nader

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Who is Al Gore?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Wordnapping wreaks havoc upon politics

MARK WEISBROT
Verizon workers defend rights

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Full employment reduces crime

JESSE JACKSON
Gore's choice advances the dream

OUCH!/Public Citizen
View from the sky-box

BOOK REVIEW/Bill Knight
Henry A. Wallace: Too good for politics

TED RALL
Wars start just like this: Caspian Sea oil rush

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Can't ride roughshod over First Amendment

BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Presidential also-rans

MOLLY IVINS
Owned and operated by BiggieCorp;
Missile defense politics may not be rocket science;
Surreality check in Great State

HERSCHEL STERNLIEB
Republican prophylactics

WILL DURST
Spitting image


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