COVER/Marty
Heldt
George W. Bush's missing year
EDITORIAL
'Unlikely voters' can tip the election
JIM HIGHTOWER
Taco Bell's mystery corn;
Time for a new American revolution;
Fraud of 'Citizens for Better Medicare';
The failure of the two-party duopoly;
Fatal flaw of polling numbers;
Get a whiff of virtual progress.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
More than a sound bite
CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Bringing politics back to the land
LEM HARRIS
Farmers have a stake in the election
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Judge OKs Cargill's Continental purchase
SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Poplar trees root out pollution
DISPATCHES
Wellstone calls for health care expansion
PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Buyers need to look beyond low prices
WAYNE O'LEARY
Deregulation blues
GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Consumer power vs factory farms
BILL BERKOWITZ
Family farmers unite to fight globalization
CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Corrupt and corrupting
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Embryo cell research: patients prevail
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A hollow press corps
JENNIFER
BLEYER
What does Nader want?
TED RALL
The Nader alternative
MADE IN THE USA/Joel D. Joseph
You call that a debate?
MARTY JEZER
The missing candidate
MARK WEISBROT
Protests shine light on IMF and World Bank
NAOMI KLEIN
Capitalism, communism look equally bad
JOHN BUELL
Revisiting the homework wars
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Jim Crow, the sequel
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Level the playing field, what a media concept!
PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Dubyonics
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Gore and his reinventions
FRANK LINGO
See Dick buy
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Apology and not quite the end of archaeology
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Insurance industry goes for deregulation
JESSE JACKSON
The Potemkin candidate
OUCH!/Public Citizen
Tired of this?
BOB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
The real spoiler in the presidential race
KEVIN MATTSON
Working Families: a progressive choice in NY
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court of Scalia-Thomas think-alikes terrifying
BOOK REVIEW/Alvena Bieri
Ordinary resurrections
MOLLY IVINS
Social security sky is falling;
George W and the Texas Supremes;
The media, the schools and our man Bush
DENNIS RODDY
Violence -- real and make believe
This page posted Oct. 15, 2000