| The People of the United States of America v. Richard Milhous Nixon | 5 |
| Smith, The Editors and Austin C. Wehrwein, Walter Cronkite, Ferret Guillory, and Winston | |
| The Word from Washington | 13 |
| Energy: the Crisis Behind the Crisis | 15 |
| Love, Sam | |
| Four-Year Score on the Environment | 22 |
| Miller, Judith | |
| The Holy War against Heroin | 25 |
| Slade, Steve | |
| Gentlemen and Scholars | 29 |
| Dugger, Ronnie | |
| Yugoslavia Turns Back the Clock | 31 |
| Homan, Richard L. | |
| Billion-Dollar Loophole | 35 |
| Aspin, Les | |
| How Congressmen Manage the News | 37 |
| Gruenstein, Peter | |
| A Free and Accessible Press | 41 |
| Duscha, Julius | |
| A Look Back at the Year Ahead | 44 |
| Lipez, Richard | |
| A Trapped Generation on Trial | 45 |
| Schipper, Henry | |
| Eleven Ten-Best Films | 50 |
| Turan, Kenneth | |
| An Opera for Today | 52 |
| McDaniel, Charles-Gene | |
| LETTERS | 54 |
| THAT FIRST AMENDMENT | 57 |
| UNGAR, SANFORD J. | |
| Power to Persuade | 59 |
| Paper, Lewis J. | |
| Women in Politics | 60 |
| Nies, Judith | |
| A Bill Gets Passed | 62 |
| Sturges, Gerald D. | |
| Books Briefly | 63 |
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