| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 4 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| How They Missed That Story | 8 |
| Bennet, James | |
| WHO'S WHO | 17 |
| The Making of the President 1996 | 18 |
| The Natives are Arrestless | 20 |
| Hentof, Nicholas | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 25 |
| Mental Health Spas | 26 |
| Bates, Andrew | |
| THE WASHNGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 29 |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 30 |
| Banking on Secrecy | 31 |
| Simons, Teresa | |
| THE WORST CITY GOVERNMENT | 37 |
| Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You | 38 |
| Heilemann, John | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Good-for-Nothing Samaritans | 48 |
| Shapiro, Walter | |
| What the Beltway Could Learn From the Bible Belt | 50 |
| Cornfield, Michael | |
| Dishonest Abe | 53 |
| Lichtman, Allan J. | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 56 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Political Booknotes | 57 |
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