| LETTERS | 1 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 4 |
| The Energy Crisis | 10 |
| How to Keep It Going:Synfuels | 11 |
| Bethell, Thomas N. | |
| How to End It: Natural Gas | 20 |
| Easterbrook, Gregg | |
| Why Not the Cheapest? | 31 |
| Tidbits & Outrages | 33 |
| Reagan's Welfare Fraud | 34 |
| Joe, Barbara E. | |
| Memo of the Month | 37 |
| THE SMOKELESS GUN: BILLYGATE AND THE PRESS | 38 |
| Kaus, Robert M. | |
| Who's Who in the Administration | 49 |
| I DIDNT LOSE, I JUST RAN OUT OF TIME | 54 |
| Hightower, Jim | |
| the political puzzle | 61 |
| Barclay, John | |
| political book notes | 62 |
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