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'THIS IS A COLLECT CALL from a correctional institution,' says the robotic female voice at the other end of the line. After a moment of confusion, I realize it must [...]

IT WAS A CHILLY December morning when I got to the gates of Angola prison, and I was nervous as I waited to be admitted. To begin with, nothing looked [...]

THERE'S A CERTAIN AGE at which you cease to regard your own death as a distant hypothetical and start to view it as a coming event. For me, it was [...]

LIKE MOST PEOPLE whose quality of life depends upon the fluctuations of an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), or other acronym-soup retirement account, I was born long before such things existed. It's [...]

I began needing drugs to stay alive one day in the early 1990s, though I did not realize it at the time. I was still a decade away from officially [...]

The commercial begins with a voice-over asking, 'What do you think cars will be running on in the future?' 'Grass, leaves, trees, garbage,' suggests a soccer mom standing on a [...]

KENNEY TRENTADUE was driving a 1986 Chevy pickup when he was pulled over at the Mexican border on his way home to San Diego on June 10, 1995. He was [...]

'THE ROAD IS ONE SUCCESSION OF DUST, RUTS, PITS, AND HOLES.' So wrote Dwight D. Eisenhower, then a young lieutenant colonel, in November 1919, after heading out on a cross-country [...]

THE STATELY RUSSELL SENATE Office Building stands at one corner of a domestic Green Zone, just northeast of the Capitol building at the intersection of Delaware and Constitution avenues. In [...]

The Heritage Foundation, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary beginning next month, has grown into one of the largest and most successful advocates for conservative thinking in Washington. From its unadorned, [...]

Viewed from a low-flying plane as it skips across the mountains, California's North Coast looks like some strange and terrible war zone. Stretches of untouched, prehistoric forest speed by--and then, [...]

The article looks at the use of solitary confinement, or the Special Housing Unit (SHU), by prisons in New York state. It discusses the state and federal policy changes that increased SHU use in New York, which it notes has a high rate of solitary confinement relative to other U.S. states. It notes that solitary confinement is frequently imposed for nonviolent, trivial prisoner offenses. It discusses whether solitary confinement is a form of torture and describes the detrimental psychological effects of the prolonged sensory deprivation and solitude involved.

The article presents information on California's North Coast which looks like some strange and terrible war zone. Stretches of untouched, pre-historic forest speed by-and then, suddenly, great gouged-out patches appear. The formation of Louisiana-Pacific was the result of the anti-trust theory that has governed U.S. economic regulatory activity for much of this century. The federal government's creation of Louisiana-Pacific played out the ongoing compromise between these two ideologies. In the face of antitrust suits, Georgia-Pacific agreed, in 1972, to split off 20 percent of its assets (worth $305 million) to form a new corporation called Louisiana-Pacific.

Recommends reforms of the automobile insurance industry by allowing the U.S. government to assume management and distribution of automobile insurance to the general public. Excerpts from an inquiry into the automobile insurance industry's practice at U.S. Senator Philip Hart's anti-trust committee; Refutation of the decision of insurance companies to narrow their market; Factors that helped insurance companies to convince state insurance commissions for the approval higher rates; Suggestion that insurance companies have transformed themselves into hybrid conglomerates.

Describes a riot incident involving police and demonstrators that occurred during the U.S. Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in September 1968. Approach taken by the demonstrators to confront the Chicago police; Security measures taken by the police force prior to the convention; Objective of the protests.

Criticizes the board of trustees of Columbia University for initiating real estate acquisitions and development projects in consortia with private developers. Claim that the acquisitions and projects are detrimental to the neighborhood and residents within the university's land properties; Land area occupied by Columbia University and other educational and medical institutions; Land speculation initiated by the trustees; Approach used in reconciling property interests of the institutions; Role of Ronald Golden in evicting residents from buildings owned by Columbia; Business transactions and relationships of Columbia trustees with Uris Buildings Corp. and its chairman Percy Uris.

Highlights the controversies and issues discussed at the New Politics Convention held at the Palmer House in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Objective of the formation of a caucus by African Americans even before the convention began; Members of the caucus replacing Chicago separatist theoreticians; Reason behind the failure of the nationalists to get all African Americans to leave the convention; Argument of the white radical caucus formed by members of the Vietnam Summer, against people who line up for a third ticket in the convention; Overview of the list of certain demands sent by the African American caucus.

Assesses the impact of mergers involving electronic companies and publishing houses on the education business in the U.S. in 1966. Support of the government for such mergers; Initiatives being implemented in the education sector as a result of such mergers; Rise in the interest in teaching due to the use of computers.

Examines the racial problem in Washington, D.C. as of 1966. Privileges given to the white minority; Problem associated with the representation of African Americans in different sectors and groupings; Formation of the social movement Free D.C. Movement; Information on African American civil rights movements in the city.

Provides information on Washington, D. C. as a lost colony still surviving on the American continent. Discussion on the population of the state and its apartheid residential pattern; Percentage of middle-class African Americans residing in abject poverty and total deprivation in the state, according to a report released by the National Capital Planning Commission in April 1966; Failure of the United Planning Organization, a local anti-poverty agency, to find more jobs and better housing for poor people; Benefits and advantages of foreign politicians, entrepreneur and governors-in-residence in the state, such as low taxes, services for themselves, franchises, and contracts; Contribution and influence of Congressman John L. McMillan, chairman of the House Committee in the District of Columbia, on the economic and political system of the state.

Discusses a clinical research conducted by Doctor R. O. Nulsen, an obstetrician of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1959 to determine whether thalimode, a drug manufactured by Wm. S. Merrell Co. for the treatment of nervous tensions, affected pregnant women and unborn child. Reference to an article by Nulsen published in the June 1961 issue of the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecolology" which stated that thalimode had no effect on babies delivered by mothers who had been receiving the drug late in pregnancy; Details of damage suits brought by two women who claimed that Nulsen gave them thalidomide in early pregnancy; Account of an interview with Nulsen on conducting the clinical research.

Part II. Describes the social and economic conditions of the Sioux Indians settled in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Commercial and public edifices seen by the author, including the Bureau of Indian affairs and headquarters of the Oglala Sioux tribe; U.S. government approaches to Indian tribes through the years; Image of the Oglala Sioux as the great masters of passive resistance; Policy of improving education and at the same time developing the economic base of the reservations; Elementary day school accessibility; Indian Bureau economic development policies which have not yet produced much enterprise; Conditions in the lost communities beyond the settlements.

Provides information on the Menominees, an Indian tribe in Wisconsin. Historical background of the Indian tribe located in Neopit, Wisconsin; Refusal of the tribe's head chiefs, Oshkosh and Keshena, to sign a treaty that proposed the removal of the Menominees from the state; Victory of the Menominees from a court claim where they had accused the U.S. government of squandering their timber assets by not clearing out thousands of trees that were blown down in a storm in 1905; Discussion on the tribe's distribution of the claims settlement termination of the Menominee Indian Reservation; Efforts of Menominee Enterprises to broaden the tax base by developing plots along the Wolf River and through wide scale development along the shores of lakes back in the wilderness.

Provides an insight into the issue of poverty and segregation in Chicago, Illinois under the administration of Mayor Richard J. Daley. Policies of Mayor Daley which reflect the prejudices of the old ethnic communities, particularly the Irish and the Poles; Construction of a public housing project to cope with the bulging Afro-American population; Existence of poverty programs and their significance to the Afro-American community.

Examines the poverty program proposed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to be administered by the non-profit group, United Planning Organization (UPO). Amount of federal poverty funds given to UPO to ameliorate the conditions of the poor; Details of the failure of the Welfare Department to serve the poor; Problems with the lack of low-income housing; Plans of the UPO for finding jobs for the unemployed or underemployed.

Criticizes the methods used by the U.S. Civil Service Commission in conducting security interviews for nonsensitive jobs in public service. Problems with the kinds of questions asked by interviewers; Claims regarding the reason behind the efforts of the government to avoid hiring gay employees; Implications of differences in the policies of various agencies regarding the presence of third parties at security interviews; Actions taken by the American Civil Liberties Union in dealing with problems encountered by civil service applicants.

Presents developments related to medical care in the U.S. as of November 9, 1963. Overview of history of legislative bills on medical care in the U.S. Congress; Arguments against the Hospital Insurance Act proposed in the year 1963; Appraisal of methods to raise money for medical research; Usage of krebiozen, an antineoplastic agent for the treatment of cancer.

Criticizes the U.S. Federal Power Commission for its failure to protect the public interest and asserts that it represents the outstanding example in the federal government of the breakdown of the administrative process. Discussion on how Joseph Swidler, the former counsel for TVA, demonstrated how the Commission had reorganized its staff and streamlined procedures; Overview of a meeting at The White House over the Pacific Power & Light Co.'s request for permission to issue stocks and bonds whose proceeds would be used for construction of a line between the federal Bonneville dam system in Oregon and the power scarce markets of California; Major accomplishment of the FPC on the electric power side.

Focuses on the reform of the state abortion laws in the U.S. Legality of abortion in the case of saving a mother's life; Number of illegal abortions in the U.S.; Decline in medical justification for abortion; Permission for abortions for psychiatric reasons; Ease for a woman with money to receive an abortion in a private hospital than a woman without money to have one in a public hospital.

Discusses the emergence of West Virginia-based reform organization Miners for Democracy and the considerable support being drawn by its reform candidates from large working mines. Threat posed by Miners for Democracy against Tony Boyle's United Mine Workers machine; Foundation of the organization after the 1969 murder of Joseph Yablonski, a union leader who campaigned against Boyle; Chance of the Miners for Democracy candidates to win the court-ordered election; Aspects of the insurgent campaign; Court decision that set aside the 1969 election of Boyle; Extraordinary acts of Boyle's union career.

William 'Lefty' Gilday had been in prison 40 years when the dementia began to set in. At 82, he was suffering from advanced Parkinson's and a host of other ailments, [...]

The article discusses the healthcare condition of Angola security state prison in Louisiana. It discusses sickness and suffering of prisoners has led to their early death, need of building a lawsuit against the prison and medical staff for their lack of awareness, and views of inmate Francis Brauner on the same.

Focuses on the impact of federal government control on offshore oil-drilling operations in states in the U.S. Reasons behind the demand for separate handling of exploration and production of oil in New Jersey; Estimations for costs to Texas state and local government associated with federal offshore drilling; Benefits of changes in federal leasing system to oil-drilling operations in the U.S. states.

Reports on the formal launch of National Writers Union in New York City in April 1983. Purpose of the Union; Plans made by the Union to provide members with life and health insurance; Origin of the Union.

Focuses on the stance of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration towards environmental regulations as of November 7, 1981. Efforts of the administration in disabling the Environmental Protection Agency; Impact of pollution control legislation on the economic efficiency and the labor market; Impact of budget reductions on environmental projects; Delay of the implementation of water quality standards; Amendments drafted to the Clean Air Act.