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NATIONAL AFFAIRS AU REVOIR This is the last column I shall write for Commonweal. I expect to contribute to the magazine occasionally in the future but not on the approximately every-other-week...

THE PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLE: (April 1968)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLE The transformation of the political scene in recent weeks has belied the pessimism of radicals and far exceeded the optimism of liberals. When I wrote in...

THE TRANSPORT ATION TANGLE (April 1945)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE TRANSPORTATION TANGLE One of the surprises m President Johnson's State of the Union message last month was his request for a cabinet-level Department of Transportation...

PROSPECTS FOR THE WAR (February 1966)

power in the Western region persomfied corruption in poht~cs. * Chief Festus Okotle-Eboh, well known for his expanding personal fortune, who persomfied graft m national life. Conversely, the...

HOME RULE-ALMOST (October 1965)

Of the traditional Papal greeting for lwely American hand-wawng. Several lames he slowed down to gwe a cinld's outstretched hand an affeclaonate slap. At least twice he stopped to bless crippled...

The Other Washington (March 1964)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Other Washington WASHINGTON is the capital of the United States and of the free world, the scene of glittering diplomatic and private parties, of marble monuments, and of...

The Bobby Baker Case (February 1964)

The Bobby Baker Case THE Bobby Baker case has become the first major political embarrassment of the Johnson Administration. It has also become a major ordeal for "the Establishment," the bipartisan...

Cynics, Critics and Presidents (January 1964)

Cynics, Critics and Presidents "WE HAVE in 1964 a unique opportunity and obligation to prove the success of our system-to disprove those cynics and critics at home and abroad who question our...

The President and the Intellectuals (December 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT The President and the Intellectuals IN THE WEEKS since the death of President Kennedy, no subject has intrigued Washington more than the relationship of the intellectuals he...

The Mood in Washington (December 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Mood in Washington IN JAMES JOYCE'S "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," three Dublin political workers are reminiscing about Parnell. "If this man was alive ..." is their refrain....

Foreign Aid in Trouble (November 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT Foreign Aid in Trouble FOR THOSE who believe that the United States has an important moral obligation to assist the economic development of the poorer countries of the world, the...

Saving Latin Democracies (November 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT Saving Latin Democracies UNTIL late September, it had been possible to counterpoint the Kennedy Administration's exasperating failures in coping with Castroism in Cuba with the...

The Making of a Prime Minister (October 1963)

WASHINGTON REPORT The Making of a Prime Minister TO AN AMERICAN visitor in the autumn of 1963, British politics has many familiar aspects. Dr. Gallup and other pollsters chart the weekly...

The Eisenhower Court (March 1957)

The Eisenhower Court "SEEMINGLY WITHOUT CONSCIOUS DESIGN, MR. EISENHOWER HAS CONSTRUCTED A COHERENT LIBERAL MAJORITY ON THE COURT" WILLIAM V. SHANNON IT IS ONE of the striking ironies of...

Shannon, William V.

Shannon, William Y.

Shapiro, Harvey D.

Sharkey, John

Sharp, John K.

SHARP, REV. J. L.

Shaughhessy, Gerald

Shaughnessy, Gerald

Shaw, G.Howland

Shaw, James Gerard

Shaw, Kurt

Shaw, Roger