| LETTERS | 2 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Why We Need a New Marx | 11 |
| Boo, Katherine | |
| WHO'S WHO | 16 |
| Threadgill, Susan | |
| The Spies Who Came in From the Cold War | 18 |
| Braden, Tom | |
| TIDBITS & OUTRAGES | 24 |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 25 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Dances with Sharks | 26 |
| Segal, David | |
| Swords into Bankshares | 31 |
| Hickox, Katie | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 35 |
| Confessions of an Investigative Reporter | 36 |
| Georges, Christopher | |
| The Annual Political Book Awards | 44 |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Ward is Hell | 45 |
| Crewdson, John | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Without Fear or Females | 50 |
| Williams, Marjorie | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: The Coward and the Glory | 53 |
| Thomas, Evan | |
| The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD | 55 |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 56 |
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