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At the beginning of 1992, the directors of General Motors Corporation, the world's biggest industrial company, decided to figure out what was going on in the organization they theoretically controlled. [...]

It's 4:30 in the afternoon on the windswept lawns of the president's estate at Kennebunkport, and dozens of journalists are getting tired of watching the dog romp. At last, the [...]

It's bitter political irony that liberal Democrats like Sharon Pratt Dixon are the first leaders since the election of Ronald Reagan (under whom the federal workforce grew more than seven [...]

As I read the Monthly month after month,' writes B. J. Luberoff of Summit, New Jersey, 'I'm beginning to get the same reaction I have to '60 Minutes': All I [...]

Consider Clayton Karioka, who serves up 'Hazelnut,' Amaretto,' and 'Decaf Genuine Guatemala Antigua' coffee from behind the counter at Bucks County Nut & Coffee Company in Washington's Union Station, where [...]

James Bennet is an editor of the Washington Monthly. Research assistance was provided by Elliott Beard and Deborah Yavelak Sieff. Historians will no doubt debate for decades the what ifs [...]

James Bennet is an editor of the Washington Monthly. Research assistance was provided by Elliott Beard and Sean O'Sullivan. Why they failed to stop the war Those who spent a [...]

HOW THEY MISSED THAT STORY It's hard to recall now that in the first days after Iraq invaded Kuwait, sending any American troops--much less 430,000 of them--to the Middle East [...]

The Stupidity of Free-Market Chic . . . . . . in the Middle East As compensation for the loss of a good chunk of their ideological foundation in the [...]

How the Cleaver Family Destroyed Our S&Ls After a fair amount of confusion over which vague entity ('deregulation,' 'campaign finance') deserved the blame for the $500 billion savings and loan [...]

Power Failure The outlook has only gotten rosier for Alltel, a telephone holding company headquartered in Ohio, since Forbes called it 'the industry's most dramatically improved company for 1986.' Sticking [...]

By James Bennet The Cold War is over and you're ready for bed. So you pat the dog, kiss the wife, and set the alarm for a half hour later [...]

A lieutenant commander should be in charge of a small ship or the weapons on a big one. But in today's swollen officer corps, he's just as likely to have [...]

Sentences That Make Sense It was very hard, last July, to figure out what the sentence handed Oliver North meant. A jury had convicted him of three crimes: aiding and [...]

The News Media as a Political Institution by Timothy E. Cook University of Chicago, $48 This is a provocative and often wise but ultimately unsatisfying book that ends just as [...]

GOVERNMENT'S END: Why Washington Stopped Working By Jonathan Rauch Public Affairs, $12.00 A thouthful author's pessimism about special interests IN EARLY MARCH, AS JOHN MCCAIN'S BANGING of the 'iron triangle' [...]

After 20 years in office, Coleman Young announced last year that he would not run again for mayor of Detroit, where almost one in three people lives in poverty and [...]