| LETTERS | 1 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| The Sinking of a Supercarrier | 13 |
| Ryan, Joseph Enright and James | |
| Elliott Abrams: The Teflon Assistant Secretary | 19 |
| Alterman, Eric | |
| WHO'S WHO | 28 |
| The Dark Secret of the Black Budget | 31 |
| Weiner, Tim | |
| MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 34 |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 36 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Battered Justice | 37 |
| Meier, Joan | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 46 |
| The Kennedy Hustle | 47 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Zen and the Art of Cultural Misappropriation | 49 |
| Rowe, Jonathan | |
| The Burger Court: Bad, But Not That Bad | 52 |
| Farber, Dan | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 55 |
| Political Booknotes | 57 |
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