| LETTERS | 2 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Paperback Fighter | 10 |
| Shuger, Scott | |
| WHO'S WHO | 17 |
| TIDBITS & OUTRAGES | 19 |
| Law School Lite | 20 |
| Pink, Daniel | |
| THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award | 23 |
| What the Smartest Man in Washington Doesn't Understand. And Why it Will Hurt You. | 24 |
| DeParle, Jason | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 37 |
| Congress's Watch Dog: Mostly It Still Goes for the Capillaries | 38 |
| Heilemann, John | |
| The Worst City Government | 41 |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 44 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Sex, Lies, and the Underclass | 45 |
| Cohen, Patricia | |
| Memoirs of the Man the White House Said Didn't Exist | 50 |
| Barger, Robert Parry and Brian | |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 55 |
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