| Letters | 6 |
| Comment | 9 |
| No Comment | 13 |
| O Washington | 14 |
| Jones, Arthur | |
| Reflections | 16 |
| Pinsky, Mark I. | |
| Datelines | 18 |
| Hughes, Tom Chaffin, Keenen Peck, Mike Jendrzejczyk, John Stamets, Bev Fingerhood, and Kathleen | |
| THE RIGHT AND THE WRONGS OF REAGAN | 22 |
| Judis, John | |
| FEIFFER'S REAGAN | 28 |
| Feiffer, Jules | |
| THE KREMLIN STAYS THE COURSE | 30 |
| Grosscup, Beau | |
| THE CIRCLE GAME | 32 |
| Hansen, Mike Parker, Dwight | |
| LAST MAN AT THE DEPOT | 36 |
| Mayer, Milton | |
| AN AFRICAN DILEMMA | 40 |
| Sylvester, Christine | |
| THE CELLULOID WAR | 44 |
| Hoeffel, Paul Heath | |
| Film | 48 |
| Seitz, Michael H. | |
| Indigenous Music | 50 |
| Hentoff, Nat | |
| The Making of a Great Communicator | 52 |
| Morgan, Edward P. | |
| Dangerous Wastes | 53 |
| Pope, Samuel S. Epstein, Lester O. Brown, and Carl | |
| Law and Politics | 54 |
| Ostrow, Griffin B. Bell with Ronald J. | |
| Then as Now | 55 |
| Brinkley, Alan | |
| Three Sisters | 56 |
| Shange, Ntozake | |
| BOOKS BRIEFLY | 56 |
| Report Card | 58 |
| Corson, Ross | |
| Indexfor 1982 | 59 |
| Puzzle | 63 |
| Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry | |
| The Last Word | 66 |
| O'Malley, Becky |
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