TABLE OF CONTENTS, JULY 1996


EDITORIALS:
Labor Party gets no respect ... yet

JIM HIGHTOWER:
Why people don't vote;
Cato's welfare lies;
More statistical shenanigans;
Polluter pork protectors;
De-regulated train wrecks;
Clinton's Money: Howling with wolves.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

OBSERVATIONS:
Music delivered a young boy from despair, but it died at Boys Town with Father Schmitt

FEATURE:
A little person wins $60 million from the big corporation, by Art Cullen.

FEATURE:
Gambling on agriculture's future, by A.V. Krebs.

FEATURE:
Urban farms stretch dollars, build communities, by Max Millard.

COMMENTARY:
Much progress since 1955, by Robert Torricelli.

MEDIA BEAT/ NORMAN SOLOMON:
Dole killing public TV softly.

REPORT:
Don't say that word: Old-line Texas Republicans dread talk of abortion, by Louis Dubose.

FEATURE:
How to attract jobs without giving away the store, by Mark Lewis.

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW / SAM SMITH:
Privatizing Propaganda.

TED RALL:
Death by 1,000 cuts: Property rights vs. society.

FEATURE:
Miners find new role in restoring land, by Jane Braxton Little.

FAMILY VALUES
from the United Auto Workers.

COVER STORY:
Labor Party chooses evolution over revolution, by Laura McClure.

LABOR PARTY PROGRAM

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST / RALPH NADER:
Ignoring Labor

FEATURE:
Demos for Sale or Rent: the Corporate buyout of the Democratic convention, by Ben Lilliston

EVERLASTING GOP-STOPPER / SEAN ALLEN

GLEN STEER:
Bill Clinton and the line of fire.

JAMES McCARTY YEAGER:
Carville to progressives: Fight back.

COMMENTARY:
Spring the 2-party trap: Vote Nader, by Ronnie Dugger.

JESSE JACKSON:
Against the tide of hate; Deja vu all over again.

FREELANCE:
The forgotten pollinators, by Elizabeth Pepin.

LATINO SPECTRUM / PATRISIA GONZALES & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ:
Latinos in the Negro and Major Leagues;
Viva la musica: the Willie Colon story.

MADE IN THE USA / JOEL D. JOSEPH:
Say no to the Nike Mafia.

HAL CROWTHER:
Flintstones: a post-modernist text? The naked and the dumb.

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY:
Decency Act trips over First Amendment;
Suffer the children ...

MOLLY IVINS:
Land of midnight sun and grim chuckle;
Contemplating the decline of civilization.

EUGENE J. McCARTHY:
No farewells.

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