THERE'S A NEW money-in-politics story in town. It's the one about the Reform Party having $13 million for its nominee in the 2000 presidential race.

According to Robert Borosage, the co-director of Campaign for America's Future and an adviser to Jackson, the left should now take advantage of the weakened state of the Republicans by emulating the conservatives

Every day another headline sprawls across the front pages of newspapers, reporting the latest fund-raising allegation about the Clinton administration. The Chinese government sought policy influence through campaign contributions.

In a loft in downtown Manhattan scattered with mementos of Che Guevara, Dr. Fred Newman paid tribute to a new revolutionary hero, a man he would like to see in the White House next January.