| Behind Nixon's Welfare Showdown | 3 |
| SCHORR, DANIEL | |
| Labor's New Optimism | 5 |
| MARQUAND, DAVID | |
| Back to the Bourbons | 7 |
| ALAN, RAY | |
| The New Ghetto Medicine | 9 |
| LEAMER, LAURENCE | |
| Playing Poor Politics | 13 |
| TYLER, GUS | |
| Centuries in Collision | 16 |
| SHORTER, KINGSLEY | |
| The Prose of a Poet | 19 |
| GLASSGOLD, PETER | |
| A Plea for Lady Luck | 20 |
| BERNSTEIN, DAVID | |
| Violent Idyls | 22 |
| SIMON, JOHN | |
| Out to Launch | 25 |
| KITMAN, MARVIN | |
| Dear Editor | 27 |
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