| Letters | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 4 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| A Fast-Track Reality Check | 8 |
| Smith, Hedrick | |
| Meet the (Black) Press | 10 |
| Fellows, Jarrette Jr. | |
| Tidbits & Outrages | 13 |
| Capitol Hill's Longest-Running Outrage | 14 |
| Bumpers, Sen. Dale | |
| It's the Exam That Fails | 19 |
| Aizenman, Nurith C. | |
| Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Regulators | 22 |
| Levin, Blair | |
| Who's Who | 26 |
| Threadgill, Susan | |
| Amazing Grace | 28 |
| WORTH, ROBERT | |
| Is Locking 'em Up the Answer? | 32 |
| Fischer, Karen | |
| Reporting From the Trenches | 35 |
| Living Off The Fat of the Land | 40 |
| Fumento, Michael | |
| Memo of the Month | 43 |
| Affirmative action should not be a black-and-white issue | 44 |
| Kahlenberg, Richard | |
| The part of the Rodney King tape America didn't see | 48 |
| Shuger, Scott | |
| The Last True Populist | 50 |
| Ivins, Molly | |
| Political Booknotes | 53 |
| Torrey, James Bennet,Sandra McElwaine,Thomas E. Ricks,Benjamin Schwarz,E. Fuller |
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