| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 4 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Is the President a Plagiarist? | 9 |
| Georges, Christopher | |
| WATCHING THE BENCH: Justice by Numbers | 12 |
| Forer, Lois G. | |
| WATCHING THE BENCH: Black Robe | 19 |
| Mencimer, Stephanie | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 23 |
| The PR Papers | 24 |
| Levine, Art | |
| WHO'S WHO | 30 |
| Threadgill, Susan | |
| Grow Up, Twentysomethings. You Can Go Home Again | 31 |
| Boo, Katherine | |
| MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 36 |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 37 |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 38 |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Paradigm Glossed | 39 |
| Glastris, Paul | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Lie in the Sky | 44 |
| Fallows, James | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Company Time | 49 |
| Ledbetter, James | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Rebel Sell | 51 |
| Wallach, John P. | |
| Political Booknotes | 54 |
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