cover of issue

May/June 1998

Issue 217

features

  • The Threat from Mergers

    EDWARD HERMAN

    Can Antitrust Make a Difference?

  • The Challenge to the Brazilian Left

    LUIS AGUILERA

    A Conversation with Benedita da Silva

  • Labor Held Captive

    DANIEL BURTON-ROSE

  • Who Cares for the Caregivers?

    ABBY SCHER

    Home Care Coops Struggle Against Medicare Cuts

  • Can We Build a New American Dream?

    BARBARA BRANDT

    A Conversation with Ellen Furnari

  • Currency Speculation

    CHRISTIAN WELLER

    How great a danger?

the regulars

  • the short run
  • letters
  • active culture A Cup of Justice
  • comment The Business of Social Responsibility
  • making sense Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible / What Does the U.S. Want in Africa?
  • in review Jim Hightower: There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Armadillos / Michael Moore: The Big One / Viviana A. Selizer: The Social Meaning of Money
  • economy in numbers The Super Rich are Out of Sight
  • ask dr. dollarIs the Economy Really Going Gangbusters?