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The article presents information on the democrat Paul Simon. Simon is the perfect candidate for tain't season. He is a walking amalgam of every successful and failed Democratic candidate for President since Franklin Roosevelt, at least, with some Republicans thrown in for good measure He has craftily packaged a set of signifiers for policies and programs from the New Deal through the Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society and the Plains Deal. His jobs program ($8 billion in the first phase) recalls the Works Progress Administration. His long-term health care plan for the elderly expands on Medicare.

The article focuses on political conditions of the U.S., as of November 7, 1987. Beginning in the summer of 1983, Jesse Jackson set out to change the course of politics in that most resistant of regions. He convinced, cajoled and in some cases almost dragged blacks to registration desks and polling places with such success that more than 2 million "new voters" entered the political process. Not only that but blacks were encouraged and organized to run for office according to a strategy that would constitute a new progressive bloc within the Democratic Party at both the local and national levels.

Entrepreneur of dissent, staff psychiatrist, soother of outraged subscribers, salesman for shoestring dreams, promoter of political happenings, beggar for good causes, mediator, manager, cheerleader, Organizer, con man Hamilton Fish 3d has, during his nine and a half years as publisher of the journal "The Nation," worn many hats, all of them jauntily. Now, after almost a decade of presiding over the business side of this operation, he has decided that at age 35 it is time to move on and explore the possibility of running for Congress. To publish a grubby, trouble making, muckraking, independent progressive journal in the U.S. in the 1980's is neither a glamorous occupation nor a conventional launch pad for political office.

Iowa's party caucuses next February 8 will provide the first test of popularity for the countless candidates (there seem to be at least sixteen real or prospective entrants so far), and the long and expensive campaigns for a few votes constitute a major economic boost and cultural fillip for a state otherwise in desperate decline. The crowd lined up for registration and jammed into the narrow ballroom, which seemed too constricted for any dance more expansive than a fox trot, even when empty. A local comedian took the stage and delivered topical oneliners, performed magic tricks with audience participation.

The article presents information on a tiny enclave in the vast Los Angeles Basin, California, that, according to the author, inverts the demographics, politics and poetics of what Americans consider normal urban life. It is reported that it stands the traditional population pyramid on its head, that is only about 6 percent of its 36,000 residents are under 18 years of age, and a quarter are over 60. Its 1.9 square miles contain hardly an inch of undeveloped land; even without many conspicuous high-rises, it has the densest population of any city west of the Mississippi.

The article presents some political updates as of April 6, 1985. The article highlights that when South African police massacred a score of marchers near Langa, officials were forced to sharpen their customarily gentle criticism of the white regime. The article also adds that U.S. President Ronald Reagan was much less annoyed. Another update says that recent visiting Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal will be wined and dined by President Reagan to celebrate the ties between Turkey's democratic government and the U.S.

The article presents information on various developments in the U.S. and other countries as of May 30, 1994. The lawsuit by Paula Corbin Jones against U.S. President Bill Clinton has unleashed a bizarre torrents of carnal obsession by people who usually act as if casual sex does not exist. Nelson Mandela, South African President has an almost impossible task of integrating and restructuring all aspects of South African society. Many of Mandela's key Cabinet appointees are elderly former exiles and Robben Island political prisoners. Many are good men and good fighters, but that does not necessarily make them good administrators.

The electoral system in the U.S. is now being convulsed by the broadest, fiercest voter insurgency in perhaps 140 years, and is watching from the sidelines. Worst of all, the receptacle of these volatile political humors is Presidential candidate Ross Perot. Despite the mayhem he can inflict on an unresponsive system, Perot is a catastrophe for the progressive/activist spectrum. Insurgent labor, minorities, feminists, lesbians and gays, environmentalists, community organizers, peace internationalists, the coalition that once made up the Rainbow, are in varying degrees offended by Perot's campaign but, more important, excluded from it on any terms but his.

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion law in time for Election Day. Ironically, this announcement, which fast-tracks the inevitable gutting of Roe v. Wade, counts as a pro-choice victory. It is the Supreme Court, historically, that has been the last line of defense for hotly contested civil liberties. No one who cherishes a right would wish to see it voted up or down every four years, or worse, subjected to fifty annual recertifications by state pols elected for their views on taxes or highway repairs. Today is the time to demonstrate, to donate, to lobby, to join the clinic defense lines and to swear a solemn oath to withhold votes from all politicians, no matter how lowly, no matter what their other virtues, who do not explicitly support abortion rights, including those of teenagers and poor women.

Presents several letters to the editor commenting on an article "The Left and Clinton: As Bill Goes, So Do We," by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin's in the previous issue of the periodical. U.S. President Bill Clinton's insurance company-friendly health plans and proposed welfare cuts; Prospect of the Republican Party's victory in 1996.

Focuses on the research in international studies in the United States. Help provided by practitioners of foreign policy to the U.S. in its war against Vietnam; Contribution of political scientist Robert E. Ward to the field of international studies; Role of the U.S. National Security Council in providing security to the nation.

Focuses on the emergence of the political culture of cold war liberalism in the U.S. Impact of the cold war on the political scenario of the U.S.; Features of the cold war liberalism; Types of changes that occurred in the political scenario of the U.S. due to cold war liberalism.

Discusses the impact of United States President Ronald Reagan on the civic culture of the United States. History of the emergence of the Reaganism movement; Lack of ideological definition and programmatic coherence of the Reaganism movement; Policies of Reagan expected to have a long-term effect on the country.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "Turkey's Big Bite," which discussed the declaration of independence and military protectorate in Cyprus by Turkey; "Greyhound Bust," which discussed controversies related to the reduction of employee benefits provided by Greyhound Lines Inc; "Window Dressing," which discussed the program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development to improve the conditions of buildings in areas around the city.

Opposes the elitist and totalitarian tendency that could emerge from the misuse of the future-planning paradigm to build an ideal society in the U.S. Influence of future planners in government, academe and international agencies; Claim that a body of economic indicators, goals and models can show the state of the nation's economy and make policy objectives; Areas in which national social accounting can be applied; Criticism against the notion of building democratic socialism through future-planning; Problems with the concept of model-building of future societies.

Praises the efforts of U.S. political leader Arthur Goldberg in doing his responsibilities as the appointed ambassador of the country to the United Nations in 1966. Career background; Challenges faced by the political leader; Advantages of Goldberg over former ambassador Adlai Stevenson; Comments on the distinct characteristics of the ambassador upheld by European diplomats.

Describes the state of the U.S. Congress in January 1966. Position of senators and representatives on various political issues; Rhetoric congressional leaders like to use in their legislative sessions; Efforts of the administration of President Lyndon Johnson to repeal the Taft-Harley Act; Overview of the Great Society goals of the administration.

Presents the views of U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright on the issue of a U.S. intervention anywhere in Latin America in the event of subversive domination or the threat of it. Opinion on the decision of President Lyndon B. Johnson to send U.S. troops to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Role of U.S. Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett in the deployment of troops; Analysis of the nature of the Dominican Republic.

Provides information on the efforts of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the U.S. during the 1960s. History of the student movement; Major problems facing the people of the Near West Side of Cleveland, the subject of the group's first Economic Research and Action Project that focused on poor communities; Political orientation of SDS; Uses of power questioned by SDS president Paul Potter during the April 17, 1965 March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam.

Offers a look on the alleged participation of Communists in the activities of the civil rights movement in the U.S. Criticism regarding the evolution of civil rights to radicalism; Overview of the efforts of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace to discredit the civil rights movement; Participation of African Americans in radical activities.

The article focuses on Paul Tsongas, the one-term Senator from Massachusetts who left politics because of a diagnosis of incurable cancer in 1984. For most of the second half of the last decade he concentrated on making money and getting well, the former as a partner in a weighty corporate law firm, the latter as a subject of high-tech experimental therapy in one of the best urban health complexes in the world. Presidential politics seemed the last thing on his mind, but seeming was not being. Fate, and more than an intimation of mortality, delayed that next step, but it did not end the ambition.

The U.S. has been in a state of war as long as most citizens now living can remember. Now, after a half-century of construction, the warrior state is so ingrained in American institutions, has so saturated everyday ideology, and is so totalitarian, that government is practically unthinkable without it. The malignant post-Vietnam syndrome was as much on the war planners' minds as the threats of Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq. But there were pressing failures on the home front in summer 1990 as the gulf was simmering. The pathetic performance by both the administration of U.S. President George Bush and the U.S. Congress during the long budget negotiations convinced many die-hard democrats that the political system of their dreams didn't work anymore in the real world.

The article presents some political updates as of February 4, 1991. One of the updates discusses the military policy of the U.S. after dropping the first bomb on Iraq. The deep split between the national security crisis managers and the foreign policy elite strategists over the advisability of war marked it. U.S. President George W. Bush's small coterie of military and political fixers assumed a war-making posture. Another update reports that on January 12-13, a delegation of the Federation Council, the new highest executive organ of Russia, was sent to the Lithuanian capital to negotiate. But Russian troops simultaneously stormed the television tower, killing fifteen people and wounding more than a hundred.

The article focuses on the murder of Carol Stuart in Boston, Massachusetts. The murdered is now attributed to her husband, Chuck Stuart. When Charles Stuart described a black man as the murderer, the white authorities in Boston sent a small army of occupation into the black neighborhoods. Police invaded the housing projects of Mission Hill, knocking down doors, bursting into apartments, slamming and insulting residents. Young black men were stopped, searched and detrousered on the street for no cause more reasonable than their skin color.

The article presents information on several political developments in the world. In his speech to the United Nations on December 7, 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev seized the political initiative from a dormant U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration, outlined his vision of a new world order and set the foreign policy agenda for 1989 and beyond. Gorbachev's proposals unilaterally cutting conventional military forces, redeploying thousands of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe in a defensive posture, converting military enterprises to meet domestic needs, placing the United Nations and its agencies at the center of a new alignment. Vice presidential candidate Jesse Jackson almost got to the White House. Lunch with politician George Bush was laid out in the vice presidential office, next-door to the Executive Mansion, but for Jackson it was a potent symbol of legitimacy and acceptance.

The article focuses on Godkin Lectures, an occasion endowed in 1903 by friends of E.L. Godkin, a founder and first editor of this journal, that was held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a multi-modular Lego set of a building, where the rich and famous of the political establishment sometimes spend their holidays studying the lifestyles of the poor and powerless. At the lecture the U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, revived the thesis about poverty that propounded in "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," a report he prepared for former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson twenty years ago. That document was a nodal point in social policy-making in postwar United States. It identified the poverty class as a black Lumpenproletariat, created by the strictures of slavery and perpetuated by a "domineering" matriarchy. The locus of poverty was not the economic system, the political hierarchy or institutional racism, as various scholars and activists had claimed, but the "pathological" fatherless black family.

The article presents information related to health care in the U.S. After every other rich capitalist country and every socialist state present or past has instituted a national health system, the U.S. is in a corrosive crisis of care, cost and comprehensiveness. Certainly no one is happy with the way health care is handled now. Across the political and ideological spectrum, almost everyone sees the need for some action, if only to blunt the rising anger of the victims of the crisis. The immediate danger is not only that reform will be utterly defeated but that incremental corrections will be allowed specifically to abort the process of perestroika that will produce a health security system.

Focuses on views of Derek Bok, president of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on nuclear disarmament. Impact of political demonstrations on decisions regarding nuclear weapons; Features of a book written by Bok on nuclear policy; Members of the U.S.-based Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for International Affairs, who presented their views in Bok's book on nuclear policy.

Features several motion pictures in the U.S. in 1984. "Places in the Heart;" "Country;" "Paris, Texas".

Focuses on the de-alignment of Western Europe from the United States. Impact of the de-alignment on the West; Reason behind this de-alignment; Characterization of the de-alignment as a reference for the struggles and efforts made to expand East-West trade and as a reference for arguments within the alliance over economic policy, foreign interventions and negotiations for disarmament and peace; Overview of the origin of the de-alignment; Factors responsible for making de-alignment a problem.

Offers a look at the expulsion of Adam Clayton Powell from the U.S. House of Representatives as chairman of Education and Labor. Reason for the expulsion; Disadvantages experienced by Powell as an African American politician; Qualifications for membership in the House; Information on the Civil Rights Act of 1967; Description of Powell as a political leader.

Highlights the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) to promote human rights of African Americans in the U.S. as of January 1967. Success of SNCC in developing a new culture of being African Americans; Factors which deter the group from realizing their objectives; Outlook of African American activist and SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael towards white supremacy.

Focuses on political situations in the U.S. Description of the composition Members of the U.S. Congress; Impact of the Vietnam war on the U.S. politics; Comment on the time wasted in constitutional amendments for school prayers and state legislative malapportionment; Information that Melvin Laird, the House Republican Conference chairman, took $800,000 out of anti-poverty funds and assigned it to a tribe of Indians in his district in Wisconsin; Information about the Crime Bill passed by the U.S. Senate.

Identifies adverse political motives and events behind the enactment process of a voting rights bill which was introduced in the U.S. in 1965. Remarks from U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on voting rights; Criticism against Senator Everett Dirksen regarding his role in the bill's enactment; Pace of hearings in the Congress.

Analyzes the American presidential elections to-date. Impact of third-party candidate Ross Perot; Why the Reverend Jesse Jackson should seriously consider running, forcing a four-way race; How Liberals are losing by Democrat Bill Clinton's exclusionary strategy; Proposals for an independent left candidacy.

The article presents socio-political updates from the world, as of June 5, 1989. Now comes a case involving an unauthorized and critical biography of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and the same U.S. Court of Appeals has pushed the doctrine of the inviolability of unpublished letters to its most ridiculous extreme. The book in that case, "Bare-Faced Messiah: The Story of L. Ron Hubbard," was a full-length biography of Hubbard, which contradicted many of the claims made by the Scientologists about his life and, in the court's words, "depicted him as a charlatan and poseur." At midnight, after the polls closed in Panama, the military stopped the count. The next day, when opposition supporters gathered to protest the fraud, the regime's goons opened fire on the crowd, killing one and wounding scores. Soon afterward, the election tribunal declared the official candidate the winner.

This article focuses on the U.S. Presidential election in 1988. Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson did not take over the U.S. Democratic party in 1988, although he had already changed politics in ways that few predicted at the start and that will be extremely difficult to reverse. Jackson's apparently coy but reportedly genuine bid for "serious consideration" as Michael Dukakis's running mate may have been partly a gambit to keep his campaign alive in the media during the dull days between California and Atlanta.

This article presents the author's views on U.S. politician and economist, Michael Dukakis's candidacy for U.S. President during the Presidential election in 1988. Dukakis does not lack for material for every possible rationalization of his shortcomings in the department of ideology and issues. He stands in the middle of the party between the military-racist faction on one side, and the Jacksonian progressives on the other. Most civilized U.S. Democratic voters will see that he is better, in some essentialist reading, than Vice President George Bush.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Efforts to block the confirmation of judicial nominee Daniel Manion to the U.S. Court of Appeals; Refusal of the U.S. visa for speaking tours; Struggle to restore the reputation of the quagmire.

The article focuses on various political and social issues in the United States. "I'm walking a tightrope," Donna Shalala said with more relish than regret, plumping down on the nubby beige sectional sofa in her vast Health and Human Services office, just a slingshot away from the Capitol. The family medical leave bill rushed through Congress by the Democratic leadership to demonstrate the end of U.S. President George W. Bush's era gridlock is also an illustration of timidity. Candidate Bill Clinton promised not to touch Social Security because, as he explained candidly, he had been warned that it was a political third rail.

This article presents information related to U.S. politics. Andrew Kopkind writes that the author's presidential campaign in New Hampshire was "bizarre," that it "had no serious political strategy and proved ultimately pointless." Kopkind has simply failed to do the kind of job worthy of this periodical and its readers. Never once did he bother to interview the author or try to find out what the "point" was of the author's campaign. An election strategy is a plan, a program to organize a constituency, a scheme to amass support. The goal is to win elections or, failing that, to accumulate enough electoral power to influence an election, to impose an agenda, to remake a party or realign parties.

The big freeze of the winter settled on the land the day of the Democratic candidates' debate in New Hampshire, but it was nothing compared with the glaciation that has paralyzed political discourse among the major players. Politician Tom Harkin, who is staking a claim to bear the progressive standard, won the debate by waiting until the tail end of the two-hour snooze to bash record of governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton. Lawyer Ralph Nader and U.S. novelist Charles Brown, in their distinctive and complementary ways, ably catalogue the corruptions of the corporate and political culture.

Presents several letters to the editor on the U.S. Presidential elections. Information on the coverage of the U.S. Presidential elections; Information on the Presidential election campaigning in the U.S.; Information on the coalition in the U.S. presidential elections.

Presents letters to the editor. Comments on the role of U.S. military forces in the Philippines to maintain the intolerable status quo; Discussion on 1984 Massachusetts Mature Industries Act; Comments on the Massachusetts Employment and Training Choices program for welfare recipients.

Discusses the efforts of the California Center for Community Development (CCCD) to get its U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) grant, which runs out in February 1967, refunded. Leverage of Democratic congressmen B. F. Sisk of Fresno and John McFall of Modesto, to pressure OEO Director Sargent Shriver to cancel the grant of CCCD; Activities undertaken by the CCCD which ran into political problems; Technical assistance provided by the CCCD.

Argues that the U.S. public has fallen back into its habit of choosing the safe, comfortable, well-groomed candidate in line with the results of the Congressional elections in the U.S. in November 1966. Reasons for the defeat of the House freshmen who lost after one term; Outcome of the candidacy of Yale University professor Robert Cook in New Haven, Connecticut; Influence of the war in Vietnam on the election results; Defeat of African-American candidates.

Presents an outlook for the Republican Party in the 1968 U.S. elections. Factors which reinforced the claim of the right wing to take control of the party; Stance of Republican moderates on the 1966 campaigns; Republican politicians who may win in the elections.

Deals with the controversy in the decision of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan to fire his law clerk Michael E. Tigar. Reputation of Brennan as one of the justices of the Supreme Court; Highlights on the opinions of Justice Brennan in several cases involving the concept of freedom in democratic society; Background of Tigar.

Details the Civil Rights Conference held in the U.S. in 1966. Importance of the congress to the welfare of the racially discriminated group in the republic; Efforts of the administration of President Lyndon Johnson to promote integration between local citizens and minorities in the country; Response of African American politicians to the proposals of the administration.

Comments on the trial of three obscenity cases by the United States Supreme Court. Attempts to whittle down the remaining laws of censorship under First Amendment guarantee; Cases against publishers Ralph Ginzburg and Edward Mishkin; Issue of redeeming social importance (RSI) in erotic publications; Question mulled by the Chief Justice as to who bears the burden of determining the social value of published works.