This work features some of America's leading activists and progressive thinkers examining the current conservative political climate and considering what constructive moves are possible. Noam Chomsky analyzes the conservative victory in the 1994 elections; Tom Athanasiou and Kristin Dawkins examine the impact of the trade agreements; Herbert Schiller questions the right of government and corporations to privatize information through the much-heralded "information superhighway"; Howard Zinn looks at the new corporate order's need for quick, clean wars; and Cornel West and bell hooks discuss America's increasing racial tensions.