| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Casualties of War | 12 |
| Wham, Bam, Thanks Saddam | 14 |
| Boo, Katherine | |
| WHO'S WHO | 20 |
| On the Home Front: All Glory, No Guts | 21 |
| Fallows, James | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 24 |
| Sand Trap | 25 |
| Bennet, James | |
| AGSCAM: The New World Money Order | 29 |
| Feldstein, Mark | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 34 |
| The Keating 535 | 35 |
| Bates, Andrew | |
| Pennies from Heaven | 40 |
| Lesly, Elizabeth | |
| When is a wall not a wall? | 42 |
| Beard, Elliott | |
| THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 45 |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Paradigm Lost | 46 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| Size Doesn't Matter | 51 |
| Shuger, Scott | |
| Unsheik | 53 |
| Easterbrook, Gregg | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 55 |
| Political Booknotes | 56 |
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