| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 8 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Renting the Fourth Estate | 13 |
| Willrich, Michael | |
| The Washington Monthly Discloses | 16 |
| Editors | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 19 |
| WHO'S WHO | 24 |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 25 |
| Shakespeare on the Beach | 26 |
| Noah, Timothy | |
| Flying the Unfriendly Skies, II | 28 |
| Nather, David | |
| ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | 30 |
| MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 36 |
| Who are the Homeless? | 38 |
| Shuger, Scott | |
| THE WORST CITY GOVERNMENT | 50 |
| On Her Majesty's Civil Service | 51 |
| Peet, John | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 53 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Political Booknotes | 54 |
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