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Presents letters to the editor focusing on various political and social issues. Comments on the book "Paul Simon: Return of the Liberal," by Andrew Kopkind; Focus on democratic unions in the U.S.

Presents letters to the editor about politics and education, published in the journal "The Nation." Comment on the article "Big Business Goes to School," by John S. Friedman regarding the Institute for Research on Learning and its role in research, published in the February 17, 1992 issue of the journal; Appreciation of the interview with Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Kopkind in the article "Late Night With Jerry Brown," published in the April 20, 1992 issue of the journal; Objection to Christopher Hitchens's homophobic slur in his column on Mother Teresa, published in a previous issue of the journal.

Presents several letters to the editor on issues related to the United States politics and government. Comment on the innuendo style of the tabloid by Carol Stuart; Disapproval of Andrew Kopkind's prejudice against ethnic groups; Fear among the people in Boston, Massachusetts.

Presents letters to the editor published in June 18, 1983 issue of the journal "The Nation," related to social justice in the U.S.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "The Cold War of Liberalism," which comments on liberal politics; "Finlandization," which focuses on the politics of Finland; "Unlikely Cold War Hot Spot," which comments on U.S. policy in Latin America.

Presents several letters to the editor related to the articles published earlier issues of the journal "The Nation." Describes about American Kennel Club registrations of dog breeds; describes about ecofeminism.

Presents letters to the editor related to various articles published in different issues of this journal. Comment on cartoonist Edward Sorel; Information on the organization D.S.A; Acknowledgement for the publication of the anthology "Rock and Hawk."

Presents letters to the editor in response to the article "Minority Report," by Christopher Hitchens, published in the February 25, 1984 issue of the periodical "The Nation." Appreciation on the portrayal of Henry Kissinger; Protest against David Levine's cartoon in the article; Admiration of the caricature of Kissinger made by Levine.

Deals with the Hill-Burton Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1946 to help finance local hospital construction in the U.S. Significance of the federal law to sanctifying segregation as national policy; Issue on the constitutionality of segregation in community hospitals and community schools; Complaints against segregated Southern hospitals filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW); Result of the investigation of segregation at the Columbus County Hospital in North Carolina by HEW officials.

The article presents reprints of articles, images, book reviews, and quotations from the publication between the years 1985-1995, including “Terrorism and Its Discontents” by Christopher Hitchens from the August 3, 1985 issue, “For Jesse Jackson and His Campaign” by Andrew Kopkind from the April 16, 1988 issue, and “What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman?” by Alice Walker from the May 22, 1989 issue. A timeline of U.S. events for this period is also presented.

S Camelot had a short run. The political performance, rather than the musical play, was vastly more admired in retrospect than in full swing, and if it were not for [...]

My Beautiful Laundrette Colonialism and its discontents could become the central epic of British life in the next period, just as social class and its contradictions have dominated the insular [...]

F/X If The Hitcher is a B movie with pretentions, F/X is a B movie that is comfortable and almost complacent in its category. Like Richard Rush's more ambitious The [...]

What ever happened to all those nice kids from New York City's High School of the Performing Arts who vowed to live forever in Fame? Well they've all been auditioning [...]

In Mask, Cher is once again on the outside track of her generation, the dark side of Yuppiedom, the ass-end of the new femininity. Her Rusty Dennis is a runaway [...]

Desperately Seeking Susan has a different spin and spirit from Mask. Susan Seidelman's funky farce is grainy, witty and slapdash, where Bogdanovich's expert melodrama is shiny and serious. Susan's setting [...]

The 1,500 people who gave up a sunny spring weekend to attend the Socialist Scholars Conference--the third in its post-1960s incarnation--encountered a stunning variety of presenters and presentations. More than [...]

From the reaction of the White House and the U.S. news media, one might think that Mikhail Gorbachev's first major foreign policy act was a setback to the prospects for [...]

Of all the horrors visited on poor black, Hispanic or Asian refugees seeking shelter in the United States, none are as egregious, gratuitous and well-documented as those inflicted on the [...]

It was South Africa week in America, and America week in South Africa. ABC's Nightline moved en masse to Johannesburg and brought the horrors of apartheid into American living rooms. [...]

There were six showings of Memories of Underdevelopment, the classic chronicle of bourgeois alienation in revolutionary Cuba, over two days of a warm March weekend at the Film Forum, the [...]

The nuclear holocaust has already happened as The Terminator begins, and the usual postcataclysm mopping up is in progress--the kind of Hobbesian nightmare projected in The Road Warrior, Blade Runner [...]

One of the best things about Stranger Than Paradise is the total absence of yuppie characters, values and equipment from the screen. It is not easy to find such relief [...]

By the time you read this--indeed, by the time I write this-- preparations may be under way for a United States invasion of Nicaragua. In Managua, they have been expecting [...]

The Old Gringos For a dead duck, the cold war still has a lively kick and a lot of squawk. However much superpower tensions have been relieved in Europe and [...]

Life After Ron? George Bush arrives in New Orleans in the unhappy position of a politician who has kept his promises, delivered the goods and now has nothing more of [...]

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.

Lists recommended books on the Kennedys. Title; Claim to fame; Agenda; Problem; Judgment of posterity; Other books.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "New Radicals in Dixie," which focused on the dangers of leftist organizations; "The Anarchists," which dealt with anarchism; "A Door Best Kept Closed," which focused on chemical weapons.