| LETTERS | 1 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| California Dreamin' | 10 |
| Fallows, James | |
| THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award | 19 |
| Why Did the Navy Shoot Down 290 Civilians?' | 20 |
| Shuger, Scott | |
| ... And Why Our Bombs Missed Qaddafi | 23 |
| Easterbrook, Gregg | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 27 |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 28 |
| Assistant Secretary of What? | 29 |
| Peters, Matthew Cooper, Jason DeParle, and Charles | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 36 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Closing Up Bars and Closing Up Shop on the Monongahela | 37 |
| Ignatius, David | |
| A Soldier's Story | 39 |
| Branch, Taylor | |
| The Martin Luther King No One Knows | 45 |
| DeParle, Jason | |
| WHO'S WHO | 52 |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 53 |
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