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The article discusses Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader in the United States House of Representatives speech in the Unites States Administration office. It highlights the speech consisting pointing against the bill and Democratic policies in general, with historical talking. Other topics include the details and timeline of these events and their political journey.

Comments on several issues relevant to American politics and society in 1990. Act of moral cowardice and vicious hatred charged against the Dartmouth Review; Clarification that Newt Gingrich's critical remarks in a memorandum quoted in "The Washington Times," in October 1990 issue were not aimed at Democrats participating in the budget talks in the country; Evidence that the editors of the paper included the Hitler quotation intentionally.

Focuses on economic, political, and social developments in the U.S. Overview of inflationary conditions in the country; Comment of Treasury Secretary George Humph on compensatory government spending to fight recession; Apprehension about the existence of inflation; Discussion about the way to hedge inflation in stock market; Predictions about the business recovery in the U.S.; Assessment of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's anti-inflationary polices; Argument pertaining to the political campaign of John Connally, ex-Navy Secretary, who is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Texas; Publication of a journal 'The Petal Paper," by P.D. East, which favors segregation for the Scotch-Irish.

This article focuses on political development of the United States as of November 23, 1953. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower, says that he finds Harry Truman innocent in the Harry Dexter spy case. In the subsequent hearing before the Senate Small Business Committee, Chairman Thye, representative of Minnesota did a remarkable job in trying to protect Weeks pen-manufacturer Craig Sheaffer. The Wall Street Journal and Scripps-Howard papers warn Washington reporters not to ask the U.S. President Eisenhower such embarrassing questions.

Focuses on the Associated Press (AP) guilty of violating the U.S. anti-trust laws which is a victory for a free press. Report that directors of the AP previously had no right to admit a newspaper against the veto of other newspapers in the same city; Information about the government's suit against the AP; Claims that the news service of the AP was perverted to operate not as a public service, but as a quasi-private dispensation; Comments on the future of the press in the U.S.; Story of the AP covered by the New York newspapers.

Presents information on socio-political issues in the United States as reported by the journal. Report that a reader from New York City wishes to go on record with a protest against the inadequate coverage in Eastern papers of the La Follette civil-liberties hearings in California; Information on the attention drawn by the American Council on Public Affairs in Washington to its campaign in sponsoring, publishing and distributing scholarly books, studies and papers; Views of a reader on American aid to Finland; Report that the Committee for Cultural Freedom and the periodical "The North American Review" have put up a $150 prize for the best essay on "The Challenge to Cultural Freedom."

The article discusses problems with sex-positive feminism in relation to the author's perspective as a Muslim feminist. Topics include the political significance of sexual liberation, the use of feminism to justify U.S. military aggression against Muslim countries as part of the War on Terror, and the commodification of sexuality in relation to feminism.

Focuses on the establishment of the economic think tank, Worldwatch Institute by Lester Brown, former administrator of the International Agricultural Development Service of the U.S. Agriculture Department. Overview on the civil service achievements of Brown; Institute's role of providing a global early warning system on the supply of natural resources; Total amount of funds received by Brown to establish the institute; Annual funds received by the institute from Robert O. Anderson, chairman of the board of Atlantic Richfield Corp.

The author reflects on the extent of corruption in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. A report entitled the "White Paper on Drug Abuse," by the staff of the Domestic Council is examined. The findings from the U.S. Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations about the agency is detailed. Philip Manuel, an investigator for the Jackson subcommittee, suggests that many of the problems in the organization could be resolved if all drug enforcement were put under one departmental boss.

Reports that the U.S. Congress passed statesman Justin Morrill's bill giving the states parcels of federal land to endow agricultural and mechanical colleges in the U.S. Debate on low-tuition policy in two influential study commission reports by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and Committee for Economic Development; Provisions of the bill; Specifications of the bill; Implications of the bill passed.

Comments on the revival of the question of elitist posture of editorial pages arising from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" newspaper's publication of an editorial proposing that welfare mothers be given incentives to use the long-term contraceptive Norplant to ameliorate the impoverishment of black America. Ensuing insurrection the Inquirer newsroom; Question of for whom a newspaper is speaking for when it takes an editorial position; Possible solutions, including the abolition of editorials.

Focuses on the appeal of James Reston to break the newspaper strike in New York City. Description of Reston's profile; Shutdown of the newspapers in the city; View of Reston about newspaper publishing; Reference to the resuming of the New York Post publication; Arguments on the danger of concentrating public interest; View that the printers are out essentially to affirm their pride as trade unionists.

Comments on issues related to the business expansion of commercial banks in the U.S. Total amount of controlled assets; Details on the dominance of commercial banks; Wealth accumulated in the trust department; Interlocking directorships among the banks; Efforts of the staff of the House Banking and Currency Committee in exploring the ways in which large banks exert control over competing smaller banks.

Focuses on political campaigns of Shirley Chisholm, an Afro-American woman politician in the U.S. Reasons given by Chisholm for her support to Senator Harold E. Hughes; Topics of various papers to be released by Chisholm for her campaigns; Information on interview programs that have been signed up by Chisholm; Response of Chisholm to a question on Congress.

Focuses on the freedom of the press in the U.S. while discussing some Supreme Court cases related to press' right to publish without prior restraint. Information on Supreme Court cases of newspapers like "New York Times" and "Washington Post"; Clause in the U.S. Constitution that prohibits prior restraint on publication; Condition under which prior restraint can be put on publication.

Presents information about Overman bill. Claims that various executive departments, in the U.S., necessary to prosecution of the war have been established by law in the utmost ramifications of details; Information about a proposed change in one of the greatest war-making branches, just two months after the Overman bill was introduced; Report that many Congressmen believe government to be an automatic machine which can be perfectly designed in advance on paper, and then operated by a continuous flow of money.

Presents letters to the editor published in this issue of the periodical. Complains of advertisers on any editorial positions the periodical has taken; Publication of various novels in the U.S. with reference to the novel "A World to Win"; Reference to an article in "The Bandwagon," saying that natives of Angola must dress decently and no longer appear naked or wearing leaves.

The article presents U.S. news briefs as of March 6, 1944. The Allied forces in the Pacific and European theaters are meeting with continued success in their operations. President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) William Green is supporting Martin Dies in his bid for reelection to the U.S. Congress. It is speculated that a World Food Board will be created.

Focuses on the French approach to its debts from the U.S. and Great Britain. Report that Great Britain has laid down the principle that she wants from the collectivity of continental debtors only sufficient payments to enable her to effect her own payments to the United States; Argument of the French that they should only be asked to pay a proper proportion of this reduced sum; Report that the French take the reduction to be absolute when in fact it is only conditional, and then urge that they are only liable, if the Soviet Union is excluded for half the amount required by Great Britain; Report that the Dawes Report is actually given an American name; View that in adopting the principle of the capacity of payment France does not adopt the principle of an impartial investigation into her finances; Information on the figures of French finances as they have been laid down by official persons for the guidance of the American Debt Funding Commission; View that France does recognize her debts and is only desirous of discussing ways and means; Report that while the currency is in a state of flux no valuation of wealth is possible and even were it possible it would be a poor guide to France's capacity, since much of the national wealth is altogether unconvertible; Report that while France protests that she could only pay something over 2,000,000,000 paper francs a year to both U.S. and Great Britain, the demands on her amount to about 4,000,000,000 which is the cost of the upkeep of her military forces; Report that Great Britain, though not protectionist in the same sense, is alarmed at commercial competition and the continued existence of unemployment and cannot favor and facilitate the transference either of German or of French wealth.

Focuses on the public control of the coal industry in the U.S. Report that today it happens to be labor relations that arouse the cry, but it might equally well be high royalties, profits and prices in the anthracite industry, or waste of coal underground, antique methods of exploitation and loss of manpower in the bituminous industry; View that the conversion of coal into electricity will knit people together more inextricably than before in reliance on a single kind of energy, and will so organize the production of this energy that it will come nearer than ever under unitary human control; Need for the employment of a political agency; Ruling of the court that the actual production of coal or of power is not subject to federal jurisdiction under the commerce clause of the Constitution; Report that the success of local control in distribution is largely dependent upon the influence of the local interest over the preceding processes; Reference to the paper by professor Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School; Report that a National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State laws has markedly promoted uniformity in such matters as warehouse receipts, bills of lading, sales, partnerships, etc.; Report that the interstate compacts embody the joint interests of the several states making them, and may be safeguarded in the national interestingly the veto power of Congress; Dangers as well as conveniences of the compact; View that there should be a series of regional interstate conferences authorized by the respective legislatures and Congress for the purpose of studying the problem, recommending desirable federal and state legislation, and negotiating compacts.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing several previously published articles and current socio-political issues. Information related to French public finance, considering the article "Is France Going Bankrupt?," by John F. Sinclair, published in the January 9 issue; Clarification of editors against issues raised in the said letter about French financial future; Discussion of a previous article over Turkish massacres; Comments on an editorial predicting losses in surtaxes under so-called Mellon plan in the U.S., published in the January 23 issue; Discussion over the issue of oil scandals in the U.S.; Arguments qualifying Democratic leader W.G. McAdoo's personality for Presidential nomination in comparison to Senator Thomas J. Walsh, contradicting the editorial view appeared in the February 20 issue; Discussion over the article "The Immigration Question," published in the February 27 issue.

Focuses on the condition of the foreign language press in the U.S. Discussion of the nationalism in the U.S. in context of several migrant communities there; Description of various private and public schemes for suppressing the foreign language press of the U.S.; Statement that young immigrants learn English quickly; Attitude of the U.S. government towards foreign language press; Information about several foreign language publications in the U.S.

Comments on political, as well as social, developments around the world. Need to avoid discord between Great Britain and France over any question of European policy; Factors that have lead to resentment in Great Britain; Role of the U.S. in case Great Britain and France break on the question of substituting new balance of power in Europe for the present dictatorship; Refusal of U.S. President Warren Harding administration to exhibit the slightest official interest in the Silesian question; Inadequacy of the removal of obstacles to Russian trade; Discussion on the trade agreement between the Soviet Union and England; Information on accounts in British papers which have made it possible to unravel in large part the mystery of the sudden collapse of the Triple Alliance strike called to help miners.

Focuses on the retail electric rates in the U.S. Information that excessive price to domestic users for electric service is due to the high cost of distribution; Statement that the electrical industry do not know what it costs per kilowatt hour to distribute energy from a local switchboard or the step-down station at the end of a transmission line to houses, stores and streets; Claim of electric-service companies that they do not keep cost accounts on distribution by such methods as are employed in every phase of the steel, clothing, paper and other industries; Statement that in spite of the dramatic drop in electric costs during the last ten years, rates for the great majority of small consumers have remained practically stationary.

The article discusses the principle behind the journal's position in the U.S. presidential campaign in 1932. In line with this issue, the editors see it appropriate to present their conception of the paper's function in politics. They do not adhere to be blind partisans. Their job is to assess the various parties and their candidates in order to give a meaning, in the light of social objectives, to what the parties are and do.

This article presents information regarding leaks of news related to the U.S.' strategic governmental interests. One of the leaks says that the U.S. Congress may get bids to authorize force in the Middle-East. Anonymous details and amplification followed. The information was being pushed out methodically and without attribution. In another leak U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower proposes to commit to defend all Middle-East against Soviets. Yet another says that U.S. revises plan on disarmament to break impasse.

Focuses on the predicament of journalism in the U.S. Guard of political and cultural conflict; Emphasis on the mass education and entertainment function of the press in the movie and broadcasting studios; Emergence and disappearance of types of publications and species of journalists; Development of the press as an organized structure with uniformity of response; Setup of the totalitarian press to counter a concept of journalistic enterprise based on a sense of the value of life.

Focuses on prevalent scenario in Great Britain amidst growing political presence of Germany in various countries of Europe. Questions asked by U.S. visitors to Great Britain on the censorship of films and on editing of foreign publications like "Time"; Comment on diplomatic pressure from Germany on the press of various European countries to desist from printing anti-Nazi material with speculations on possible impact on Great Britain; Structure of commercial press in Great Britain; Potency of British laws against libel; Constituents of Incitement to Disaffection Bill.

Focuses on U.S. Senator Royal S. Copeland's closed hearings on legislation to amend the 1936 Merchant Marine Act. Comparison to the charges of irresponsibility and insubordination that were splashed across the papers as a prelude to the Maritime Commission's report and the Senate hearings; List of seamen's unions; Laws in regulating labor conditions in the maritime industry.

Reports on several socio-political and economic developments in the United States. Report that an estimated drop of more than $200,000,000 in the income tax receipts for the first quarter of the year 1931, coupled with the prospect of a Treasury deficit amounting to more than $700,000,000, remind Americans of the surpassing wisdom of the greatest Secretary of the Treasury; View that the United States had no large surplus to cushion the drop into depression, and taxes will have to be increased at the very time when the resistance to increase will be the most heartfelt; Report that the estimate of the Census Bureau that in January 1931 there were 6,050,000 unemployed, and 300,000 laid off, will be no surprise to those who have followed the more reliable statistics carefully enough to take no stock in the statements of the official optimists; Report that the papers have been full of statements by the optimists as a result of tiny seasonal gain in employment and production in February; Report that while New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has hesitated, presumably recognizing the presence of corruption, but reluctant to jeopardize his own presidential ambitions by breaking with Tammany, underground politics have worked successfully in the state assembly; Views of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ on birth control; Report that the Federal Farm Board, now approaching the end of the funds allotted to it for stabilization, has been forced to announce that it will not buy any of the new crop; Information on a new project for a chain of movie houses in all parts of the country.

Focuses on effects of the report of Simon Commission headed by John Simon on India. Information that as a parliamentary paper on the Indian Constitution, the Report will be referred to as a primary authority by those who represent officially the government of India; Criticism of the Report by Indian liberals; Comments on the nationalist movement inspired by Mahatma Gandhi; Description of a New India freed from communal bigotry, effete landlordism and foreign interference; recognition of the place of women in Indian political life; Proposal put forward by the Simon Report on the main army for Indian Frontier Defense.

Focuses on the long anticipated fight of the Actors' Equity Association with the motion picture producers that has begun in dead earnest. Account of film papers that run column upon column of Equity news-news of meetings, manifestos, deserters, recent adherents, rumors of every kind; Description of the cameramen, the studio electricians and carpenters, that have already powerful organizations of their own, all auxiliaries of the American Federation of Labor; Suggestion that attempts made at unionizing the film players are no sporadic gestures as equity has been agitating and laying its plans for fully ten years.

Comments on the partisanship of several newspaper publishers. William Randolph Hearst's acquisition of "Omaha Bee-News" and appointment of Henry J. Allen in charge of publicity for Herbert Hoover; Frank E. Gannett's acquisition of the Republican newspaper; Bowles' family's monopoly of newspaper publishing in New England.

Focuses on the campaign for the presidential party nominations between Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith. Claim that both candidates would like ride their nominations on a wave of popular support based on their messages and personalities; Comment of senator William Borah that a candidate who has no views upon public questions is unfit and a candidate who has views and is afraid to state them is unsafe; Suggestion that the educational value of a contest between Hoover and Smith will depend chiefly on the volume of the skeptical vote and the strategy of Smith; Implications of the issue of corruption involving Republican politicians and businessmen for Hoover's nomination.

Focuses on political and economic developments in the U.S. Attitude of diplomat Newton D. Baker to favor cancellation of the Allied war debts; View that Baker is on more solid ground when he speaks of the need of the U.S. for the markets of a prosperous Europe; Demand of professor William Z. Ripley for uniform Federal standards of accounting; Report that the papers print a "sharp" note addressed by the U.S. to the shadowy Chinese central government, which protests against the attempt to raise a domestic loan of $12,500,000 on the security of the maritime tax; Argument pertaining to the farmers revolt to protest against the continuous decline in the price of farm produce; Discussion that Dan Moody, the youthful attorney-general, defeated Governor Miriam Ferguson by two to one for the Democratic nomination which in Texas is tantamount to election; Provisions under conscription, which has been signed by a large number of prominent persons from fourteen nations in a manifesto to the League of Nations.

Presents an insight into the domination of "The Washington Post" in the newspaper industry in Washington D.C. Statement that the Post carries 70 percent of the advertisement lineage placed in major Washington newspapers; Representation of a split personality depicted in the Post; Insights of the case of "The Washington Star," as competitor of the Post; Information that the Post was hit with a strike in and was forced to reduce the size of its issues; Provisions of rules to companies considered as market monopoly.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Peddling Poppy," which focused on the presidency of former U.S. President George Bush; "What I Sold at the Revolution," which profiled U.S. political activist Grover Norquist; "Getting Kathie Lee," which focused on the status of the U.S. broadsheet press.

Depicts the failure the tabloid newspaper "New York Newsday" (NYN) to create a compelling vision of common civic culture that led its parent Times Mirror Co. to close it on July 16, 1995. Editorial on NYN published by "The New Yorker"; Key factor that attracts huge working-class audience to the city's tabloids; Effect of demographic change and ownership on tabloid newspapers; Implication of the newspaper's mix of class-based liberalism and race-and-gender discourse on its coverage of disputes between African American demagogues and assimilation-minded immigrants.

Focuses on the comment at the U.S. White House upon the publication of the first of the documents called "The Pentagon Papers." Action taken by the U.S. Department of Defense to determine the circumstances surrounding the unauthorized disclosure of classified material; Possible punishment for the breach of laws and regulations governing national security.

Discusses the growth of social culture from the 1930's until the 1970s in Orange county, California. Observation of the growth of a social environment which encourages openness and tolerance for individual differences including race, religion and politics; Difference in the level of awareness regarding world events; Concern over the perception of values due to the spread of drug and marijuana use among the youth; Evidence of the radicalization of college campuses centering initially on the Vietnam war; Growth of the number of underground papers in several schools publishing radical ideas.

Focuses on the Operation Crossroads for the testing of nuclear weapons beneath the Bikini Lagoon of the U.S. Destruction caused to the target fleets of the U.S. Navy by the atomic bomb; Comparison of the naval and atomic power of the U.S. in order to get more appropriations and funding; Possible damage to life and property which can be caused by an atomic warfare; Comments of the Federation of American Scientists on the ability of an atomic bomb to sink one ship of the fighting navy; Plans of the U.S. Navy to redesign ship structures.

Focuses on the dissolution of Standard Oil Co. in the U.S. Dissolution of the company in 1911 on paper only, bearing the seal of the U.S.; Claims that when dissolved the company controlled probably eighty percent of the business; Division of the Company; Importance of the geographical groups, which are the Eastern Group and the Midwestern group; Information about South Dakota, which is in the recognized territory of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

Presents an account on the prevailing scene in the U.S. related to journalism with emphasis on the purchase of the newspaper "New York Globe" by Wall Street Financier Frank A. Munsey. Dependence of honesty and intelligence of journalism on the success of democracy in the U.S.; Analysis of the positives and negatives of journalism associated with the newspaper "New York Globe"; Comment on the dissolution of the of the newspaper by Financier Munsey; Practices followed by Munsey to run his newspaper business; Effect on the existence of Munsey's remarks on the overall organizational structure of "New York Globe."

Focuses on German policy after the Franco-Prussian War. Comments on the power of the German government to make concessions that will put an end to the occupation of the Ruhr; Report on the German troops right to occupy French soil; Claims that a nation's ability to pay off an indemnity depends on the amount of gold or gold paper it can secure through taxation or loans; Information about the sum France may have to pay England and the U.S. on account of the interallied debts; Report that the Franco-Belgian formula amounts simply to a declaration that the Ruhr will be occupied indefinitely; Withdrawal of German troops from the vicinity of Paris immediately after the signature of the treaty; Claims that the Germans will rise in a revolt that will shake the foundations of European civilization.

Cites the deportation of two young Austrian Jugoslav girls who had arrived in New York from Versec, Serbia, as an example of one of the unfortunate consequences of the United States immigration policy. Decision by the authorities on Ellis Island to allow only the girl's mother and three younger siblings to enter the country; Conditions that the family had to endure on Ellis Island while waiting for their immigration papers to be processed; Return of the girls to Versec via London, England.

Comments on the condition of the newspaper industry in the U.S. Advantage of the standard newspaper in monopolizing the foreign advertising; Degradation of a large sector of the nation's press; Dependence of people in small cities upon their local newspapers for their knowledge of world events; Struggle for survival with an opposition that recognizes non journalistic standards.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments related to the U.S. According to a U.S. politician the U.S. should go all alone in Korea if the U.S. can't get a United Nations truce. It is a deeply depressing fact that a U.S. President so patently a man of good-will, and who makes such line statements when pressed, apparently doesn't read the papers and seems a bit hazy on what is going on. Maybe that is the summary of U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower's administration. Fortunately it can still change.

Comments on the appointment of Joseph M. Dodge, Detroit banker, as the fiscal adviser and representative in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget by President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Information on various posts held by Dodge; Discussion of the Third Economic White Paper issued by the Economic Stabilization Board of the Military Government; Assessment of the impact of the first budget under Dodge Plan by the journal "Oriental Economist."

Focuses on the growing anti-Semitic campaign against Jews in the U.S. Basic Structure of this anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi campaign with emphasis on a chain of small newspapers and magazines which have sprung up throughout the U.S. and in particular in the Middle West; Resemblance of the articles published in these magazines with those printed in foreign language papers controlled directly by German dictator Adolf Hitler; Description of the journal "X-Ray" which is full of quotations from isolationist Senators; Name of newspapers with Nazi orientation which include "Publicity" and "The Broom"; Analysis of U.S. aviator Charles A. Lindbergh's anti-Semitic speech which he made at Des Moines, Iowa; Investigation of the concentration of control of Jews in the motion-picture industry of the U.S.

Focuses on the correspondence of Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State. Information on the publication of the Lansing's papers by the State Department; View that although many of the documents are of great interest to specialists, they do not greatly change the accepted story of this country's involvement in the First World War; Comparison between situations in his time and one which U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is facing today; Report that the chief difference between then and now is that today the U.S. is shielded by neutrality legislation; View that it is a revealing insight into mind of a leader who tries to keep his country at peace.