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Vol. 060 Issue 011 (November 1 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild Levers of Change At the end of September, I spent a lovely weekend in Denver, Colorado. I went there to speak at a conference on disarmament called "Nuclear...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor lesser evils! President Clinton has conducted five military adventures in four years: in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and now Iraq again. Heaven knows what would come in a...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Bombs Away 'Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to our humanity and to our habitat.... The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.' —General Lee...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Friendly Advice From an editorial in BusinessWeek: "Indonesian President Suharto, seventy-rive, has plenty to boast about. For the past three decades he has overseen unprecedented...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Vicious Weasels At his first inauguration. Bill Clinton said his cabinet was going to reflect America. And it does, with one exception—they all have jobs. Yeah, yeah, I...
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ON THE LINE
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SLAUGHTER, JANE; Craig, Berry; McKissack, Fredrick L. Jr.; Thornburg, Gina K.; DeMause, Neil
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ON THE LINE Fighting for Fairer Health Care San Francisco Kit Costello has been president of the California Nurses Association for less than a year. Already she's doing battle to fw/^ overhaul...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Peddlers of Amnesia In few recent news stories has the chasm between media coverage and real events been more gaping than in the commentary about the U.S. confrontation...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan For Clinton, With Disgust Bill Clinton is not a pretty man. He's a liar. He's a coward. He's a killer bully clown. He drivels. He swivels. He's the man I'm...
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DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN
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Cockburn, Alexander
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Don't Be Fooled Again BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It's 2000 A.D., sometime in July. We're in the final year of Clinton's second term, and the battle rages over Social Security and Medicare. The...
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WHERE THE LIBERALS ARE
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Press, Eyal
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Where the Are BY EYAL PRESS At the Democratic convention in Chicago, Al From must have been smiling to himself. From is the current president of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the...
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TEN RACES TO WATCH
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Ten Races to BY JOHN NICHOLS Walt Whitman saw this nation's electoral campaigns as nothing less than "the triumphant result of faith in humankind." Faced with a choice between Bill Clinton and...
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FROM GREEN BAY TO RANGOON
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VEST, JASON
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From Green Bay to Rangoon U. S. flacks spread goodwill for Burma's junta by jason vest One of the best moments in Inherit the Wind comes when defense attorney Henry Drummond, having established...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW FRANCES FOX PIVEN
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Frances Fox Piven 'I get very irritated by the argument that welfare is flawed, and therefore it can't be defended. If a program is flawed, you work to fix it. You don't...
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POEM
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Kumin, Maxine
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P O E M Maxine Kumun Poem for an Election Year: The Politics of Bindweed I have lived all season among the bindweed. I have spied upon (heir silent Anschluss, the bugles of their flowers, the...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton No Cigar I am no movie critic and I do not play one on TV, but if I could change my name to Chantal for just a minute, I'd have to say that something weird is going on....
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BOOKS
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Carrigan, Ana
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BOOKS Victims of the 'Dirty War' Colombia: The GenocidaJ Democracy by Javier Giraldo, S.J. Common Courage Press. 1 IN pages. $12.95. by Ana Carrigan This remarkable little book is essential...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins BobDole in the Mosh Pits So far, my favorite week of the campaign was when BobDole (Bob Dole's wife calls him BobDole, his friends call him BobDole, and he calls himself...
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