December 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 12TABLE OF CONTENTS
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JIM HIGHTOWER
Aetna vs. Joseph Plocica
Four News Networks to Become One
Corporate Assault on Local Sovereignty
Give $3 to Ma Bell ... Or Else
Congressional Pork Weakens Defense
Voters Take the Initiative
COMMENT/Paul Wellstone
Voters Stood Up for the Little Guy
COMMENT/Michael Moore
'Newt, We Hardly Screwed Ye'
COMMENT/James K. Galbraith
Clinton Wins It
COMMENT/Robert L. Borosage
The End of the Gingrich Revolution
COMMENT/Ellen Miller
Clean Money Wins
PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
A Famous Victory
COMMENT/Rob Richie & Steven Hill
Turnout: Elephant in the Living Room
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Foiled Conservatives
COMMENT/John Buell
American Crisis: The Vote Not Cast
COMMENT/Wayne O'Leary
The Third Way
AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez
The Age of 'Borderless Borders'
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Disease Boutiques
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Impeachment Requires Facts First
JESSE JACKSON
Something Worth Celebrating
HAL CROWTHER
The Hungry 'I'
DISPATCHES
Labor Party is in the Running
CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Spending Bill to Devour Environment
MOLLY IVINS
Look Beyond the Blather to Political Buyouts
Gingrich: So Many Words, So Little Space
Newt Nostalgia Already
THE SCOOP/Bob Harris
Death Race 2000
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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