| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Born to be Mild | 10 |
| Noah, Timothy | |
| Notes from Underground | 19 |
| Gray, Peter | |
| WHO'S WHO | 23 |
| The Success Story of the War on Poverty | 26 |
| Mundy, Liza | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 32 |
| Lessons from the Poverty Front | 33 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 34 |
| When Criminal Rights Go Wrong | 36 |
| Savoy, Paul | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 42 |
| Class Warriors | 46 |
| Fallows, James | |
| THE WORST CITY GOVERNMENT | 49 |
| Marsh Mellow Fluff | 51 |
| Weisberg, Jacob | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 56 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Political Booknotes | 57 |
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