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The article summarizes the argument of U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on the mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2012 (PPACA) which requires most Americans to ensure that they have insurance coverage that meets federal standards and failure to comply with this mandate would result in a penalty. Among Roberts' arguments are, that the mandate is not a tax under the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA), that the mandate is a tax for constitutional purposes and that the Court can characterize what Congress enacted.

The author reflects on the U.S. foreign policy in Cold War and post-Cold War periods. She claims that U.S. diplomacy for the most part of the previous century was dominated by various unilateral and collective actions he describes as independent internationalism. She says that the U.S. seeks cooperative methods to pursue its goals when it cannot or does not want to solve a particular diplomatic issue through unilateral action.

Argues that United States diplomacy for most of the twentieth century has been characterized by a mercurial assortment of unilateral and collective actions described as `independent internationalism.' Conflation of democracy and nationalism into the single concept of self-determination; Practical attempts at national self-determination in Europe; Limitations of liberal democracy.

Criticizes the arguments of conservatives that the emergence of women as breadwinners has resulted in the loss of moral values of families in the United States. Perceived relationship between the collapse of communism in formerly communist countries and the campaign to resurrect the nuclear family with the father as sole breadwinner; Tendency of conservatives to blame society's ills on the perceived unnatural situation of men not in complete control of women.

Focuses on the effect of charges of sexual harassment on women in the U.S. Major stumbling block for obtaining full citizenship for women; Need to end the women's silence on sexual harassment; Lack of chivalry.

Presents comments about the biographies of United States President Harry S. Truman by historians William Chaffe, Joan Hoff, Franklin Mitchell and Randall Woods along with responses of two of the three Truman's biographers Robert Ferrell and Alonzo Hamby. Truman's contribution to the nation's political history; Comments about his character.

Examines documents that shed light on the presidency of Richard Nixon. Special or abuse of power papers; Congressional policy on presidential papers; Private-political-association standard; White House tapes.

Presents a revisionist approach to former US President Richard Nixon's management of foreign policy. Appointment of Henry Kissinger as head of the National Security Council (NSC); Reorganization of the NSC; Nixon doctrine and Pentagonal global economics; International economics.

Presents an essay written in response to a controversy over Afrocentrism in the Iowa State University. Myth of the past that is becoming a worldview among Afro-American youth; Differences and conflicts between black and white students.