Spring 1996

Editor's Page
Editor’s Page
Comments and Opinions
Why I’m For Progressive Taxation
Prisoners of Misleading Facts
Hype or History? How Feminists Find Hope
GATTCHA! GATT and the Erosion of Labor Rights and Environmental Standards
Politics Abroad
The Search for Europe: Czechs Drawn to Two Traditions
Of Mountains and Mice: The French Strikes of 1995
Cuba: Ideology Meets Globalization
Articles
Underpaid Workers, Bloated Corporation: Two Pieces in the Puzzle of U.S. Economic Decline
Promoting Democracy in a Postmodern World
Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization
Why Health Care Reform Failed
The Real Costs of Education: What the Numbers Tell Us
A Tale of Two School Systems: Funding in the United States and Italy
Troubled Times for Public Higher Education
Race and Politics
Colin Powell: A Flight from Power?
Turning Inward: Black Organizations Regain Importance
Farrakhan’s Middle Class Revival Comes to Howard
Holding Hands: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South
Arguments
Why We Need an Independent Politics and How to Build It
Why We Need an Independent Politics and How to Build It: Michael Kazin Replies
Nationalism Near and Far
Nationalism Near and Far: Mitchell Cohen Replies
Reconsiderations
Sheila Rowbotham’s Feminism: Women’s Consciousness, Man’s World
Magazines
The Problem with the Baffler
Books
Sins of the Overclass: The Next American Nation
The Gloomsayer: Neo-Conservatism the Autobiography of an Idea
Border Crossing: Raymond Williams
Labour’s Economics: The State We’re In
Letters
Letters
The Last Page
The Last Page