| How to Get a Job in the New Administration | 4 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| How Carter Can Find Out What the Government Is Doing | 11 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 16 |
| What's Wrong with the Adversary System: Paranoia, Hatred, and Suspicion | 19 |
| Strick, Anne | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 27 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Freeing the Guilty | 29 |
| Bethell, Tom | |
| The Revolving Door Between Government and the Law Firms | 36 |
| Jenkins, John A. | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 45 |
| How the Dope Traffic Became Airborne | 46 |
| Hopkins, George E. | |
| Waste: The Real Problem With the Alaska Pipeline | 54 |
| Gruenstein, Peter | |
| POLITICAL BOOK NOTES | 63 |
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