ANALYSIS
Recalculating Campaign Finance
J. Bradley Keena
Middle Eastern Water Wars
Aharon Klieman

COMMENTARY
Japan's Fall From Model to Morass
Robert Manning
Unilateral Sanctions Undermine U.S. Interests
Claude E. Barfield And Mark A. Groombridge

EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
All Men Are Created Equal
David C. Slade

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Sex and the President
Laurence Jarvik

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Sen. Eugene McCarthy: Antiwar Icon
Robert R. Selle

WORLD VIEWS
Left Turn in Germany

 

LIFE AND IDEALS
More Than Magic: The Story Outside Magic Johnson's Theater
Mia Wasilevich

TRAVEL
'Plucky Heroes' of the New Revolution: Making a Better Life in China
Norman W. Card

FEATURED BOOK
Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
Making God Laugh
Robert Gingher
THE MUSEUM GUARD
Howard Norman

Full Disclosure
Charles R. Larson
SECRETS
Nuruddin Farah

The Red West
Edward S. Shapiro
FROM PLATO TO NATO
David Gress

Youth Gone Wild
Tom Deignan
COLD NEW WORLD
William Finnegan

WRITERS AND WRITING
Where Folly Held a Fair: A Profile of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Linda Simon

INTERARTS
Luftlmalerei: Bavaria's 'Paintings in the Air'
Eric P. Olsen

TELEVISION
Nickelodeon: Not Just Kids' Play
Stephen Henkin

IMPACTS
Vortices: Turn, Turn, Turn
T.R. (Joe) Sundaram

NATURE WALK
A Treasure in Green
Parvinder S. Sethi

SCIENCE ESSAY
Jump and Go Fly
David S. Harvey

FOLK WISDOM
The Griffin: Mythic Beasts of the Middle East: Part 1
Rachel Hajar

HERITAGE
Big Bad Rigs: Trucking in American Popular Culture
Michael Perry

PEOPLES
Triste Navidad: Symbolism and Sad Christmas in Chiapas
Doris H. Gray
The Year Turns: Christmas Eve Illuminates Finland's Darkest Days
Ed Street