ANALYSIS
Democrats' Off-Year Election
Robert M. Unger
East Africa's Perilous Journey
Alfonso Peter Castro
Greece: New Power in the Balkans
Janusz Bugajski and David Augustyn

COMMENTARY
Is a Fairness Doctrine Needed Today?: Let's Restore Fairness to Broadcasting
Gigi B. Sohn
Is a Fairness Doctrine Needed Today?: It's Unfair and Unnecessary
David Bartlett
Now's the Time for Universal Health Care
Elaina Goldstein
Clinton's Prescriptions: Government Control
Robert E. Moffit

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Do the Media Make Foreign Policy?
Paula J. Dobriansky and Diana A. McCaffrey

WORLD VIEWS
Russia's Tortuous Path to Democracy

 

FEATURED BOOK: Gita Mehta's A River Sutra
A River of Wisdom
Uma Parameswaran

Reinventing India
Robert Ross

Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
Drawn to Mexico
Brahm Eiley
CONSIDER THIS, SENORA
Harriet Doerr

The Tyranny of Disbelief
Lloyd Eby
THE CULTURE OF DISBELIEF
Stephen L. Carter

Cash, Drugs, and Firepower
John Braeman
THE MEXICAN TREE DUCK
James Crumley

An Idiosyncratic View of Contemporary America
Edward S. Shapiro
FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE
Jonathan Freedman

Avian Consciousness
Audrey Foote
THE HUMAN NATURE OF BIRDS
Theodore Xenophon Barber

The Alchemy of Youth
Alexander Bloom
KAFKA WAS THE RAGE
Anatole Broyard

Blinded by the Environmental Light
Brian McCombie
FIRE IN PARADISE
Micah Morrison

Beyond the Danube
Juliana Geran Pilon
THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM
Andrew Nagorski

ART
Lee Joong Hi: Painting the Invisible
Betty Rogers Rubenstein

DANCE
The Marks Magic: Backstage at the Boston Ballet
Doris Hering

MUSIC
Opera Redux: The Old Face of New American Opera
Philip Kennicott

PHOTOGRAPHY
Poems in Black and White: The Photography of Ernst Haas
A.D. Coleman

THEATER
Fatulescu's Triumphant Return
Claudia Woolgar

NATURE WALK
Emperor of the Antarctic
Gail Dutton

SCIENCE AND VALUES
Overheard in Washington
Jeff Elliott

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Cynthia Moss: The Elephant Lady
Elizabeth A. Schick

FOLK WISDOM
The Eight Immortals: Humans Who Have Transcended Mortality- Part Two
Pack Carnes

HERITAGE
Country Music Down East: Pickin' in the Pine Tree State
George H. Lewis

PEOPLES
A Shaded Bend: Life in a Longhouse of the Kenyah Dayak
Jacqueline Koch
Walls of War: Murals Record Belfast's Troubles
Mathias Tugores