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April 1996 Issue - 22 ArticlesDepartments
- Letters, pp. 2-3
- Tilting at Windmills
Charles Peters
, pp. 4-7 Patty's Revenge... Pushing the Polls ... Blowing the Whistle... and Paying the Price......
- Steve Forbes, Joe Camel, and the ACLU
Joshua Wolf Shenk
, pp. 8-12 Government isn't the only threat to our civil liberties. So is the power of money.
- The Art of Flattery
Lucy Komisar
, pp. 13-14 Letters from a CIA director to a president.
- Tidbits and Outrages, p. 15
Reinventing American Capitalism
- Reinventing the Corporation
Jonathan Rowe
, pp. 16-23 The public gives corporations their right to exist and asks very little in return. It d...
- The Big Job Boosters That Everyone's Missing
Amy Waldman
, pp. 24-27 What Buchanan, Reich, Forbes, and Kennedy don't understand about how to create greater ...
- Why Higher Taxes (on the Wealthy) Won't Slow Growth
Wallace C. Peterson
, pp. 28-30 The proof is in the history.
Departments
- Memo of the Month, p. 31
- An End to the Free Lunch?
Alice Love
, pp. 32-33 Not quite. That lobbying reform passed by Congress last year turns out to have more hol...
- Who's Who, pp. 34-35
- Is the President a Waffler?
Jeremy Paul
, pp. 36-39 In some cases, yes. But part of the reason is that he shuns the easy answers of both ri...
- Monthly Journalism Award, pp. 40-41
- Reclaiming Our Cities, Block by Block
Julian E. Barnes
, pp. 42-44 How a Little Rock program offers hope for countering urban decay.
On Political Books
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In Defense of a Defense of Government (Review) Jon Meacham
, pp. 45-47 A proposal for smart, activist public institutions and the question: How do we get ther...
- In Defense of Government by Jacob Weisberg
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Milosevic's Wars (2 Reviews) Charles Lane
, pp. 48-51 The canard about the Balkan conflict is that it springs from deep, ethnic hatred. In fa...
- Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little
- Love Thy Neighbor by Peter Maass
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Constitutional Buchananism (Review) Lloyd Cutler
, pp. 52-53 Daniel Lazare sees a mess, and proposes absolute majority rule as a way to clean it up.
- The Frozen Republic by Daniel Lazare
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Political Booknotes (4 Reviews) , p. 54 -
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Review Character Above All, by Robert A. Wilson (Review) Martin Walker
, p. 54 - Character Above All by Robert A. Wilson
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Review Integrity, by Stephen L. Carter (Review) David Linker
, p. 55 - Integrity by Stephen L. Carter
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Review Above the Law, by David Burnham (Review) Ronald Goldfarb
, pp. 56-58 - Above the Law by David Burnham
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Review Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost, by John Yinger (Review) Dante Ramos
, p. 59 - Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost by John Yinger
Departments
- Political Puzzle, pp. 60-62