| The Continuing Crisis | 8 |
| Correspondence | 9 |
| Editorials/The Unfinished Congress/Jesse Who? | 10 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Capitol Ideas/A New World Struggling to Be Born | 11 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| Shoot the Wounded | 14 |
| O'Rourke, P. J. | |
| The Rainbow Lobby Storms Congress | 21 |
| Brock, David | |
| What Kind of Fuel Am I? | 25 |
| Fumento, Michael | |
| The Nation's Pulse/Late Boomers | 32 |
| Wolfe, Tom | |
| Presswatch/Desert Air | 33 |
| Eastland, Terry | |
| Spectator's Journal/Seoul Long | 35 |
| Bandow, Doug | |
| Soviet Presswatch/Suicide Solution | 37 |
| Young, Cathy | |
| The Talkies/Wild Metropolitan Fools | 38 |
| Bowman, James | |
| The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency / See How They Run / Our Country | 40 |
| Barone, Michael & Lichtman, Allan J. & DeCell, Ken | |
| Rabbit at Rest | 42 |
| Updike, John | |
| Preferential Policies | 44 |
| Sowell, Thomas | |
| Elvis Don't Like Football / Tom Landry | 46 |
| Glanville, Jerry & Landry, Tom | |
| Acts of Recovery | 47 |
| Hart, Jeffrey | |
| The Great American Saloon Series/Dry Run | 48 |
| Shiflett, Dave | |
| Current Wisdom | 51 |
| Jackasses, Assorted |
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