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THE DUKAKIS PLAN HAVE WE SEEN THE FUTURE? The miracle in Massachusetts has transformed society in ways that Governor Michael Dukakis hardly imagined when he began praying and planning for [...]

DOWN AND OUT IN L.A. A mysterious and debiliating virus is ravagingthe older ranks of Los Angeles's liberal west side just as the political season opens. The inopportune infection--featured on [...]

Facing South Africa The epic drama of South African liberation promises scenes of sweeping emotion, heavy with historic meaning: throngs filling the streets, tanks converging on the capital, colonialism shrinking [...]

Jesse Jackson does not stop running. In the year since he sought the Democratic presidential nomination, he has barely missed a day on public view or a chance for extending [...]

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.

Presents an update on the anti-poverty program of the U.S. federal government as of June 1966. Sentiment of U.S. Representative Sam Gibbons regarding the issue; Overview of the amendments proposed by the U.S. Congress concerning the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act; Anti-poverty programs that will be expanded under the bill.

Offers a look at the social condition in the Watts area in south central Los Angeles in California as of June 1966. Action taken by the police to keep order in the area; Details of the incident on May 7, 1966 which almost triggered a revolt; Emergence of the nationalist movements of the African American community in the area.

Argues that Phoenix in Arizona has shed its myth of a city founded on frontier spirit and Christian capitalism to reveal its economic failure, political underdevelopment and social naivete. Reason for the defeat of propositions providing social services and educational facilities with state bonds; Social condition of African Americans and other ethnic groups in the city's South side; Role of conservatives in preventing urban renewal; Criticism against the state government.

Highlights the disarray of the Republican Party due to an absence of a recognized leader and its defeat in the November 1965 election in the U.S. Major contribution of the party's leadership; Professionalism of Republican Senator Dirksen in contrast with the House Republican leaders; Pressure faced by the Republican National Committee from conservatives in the House of Representatives.

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.

Focuses on the plan of activist Martin Luther King Jr. for a total withdrawal from the economy of Alabama. Problem of the civil rights movement; Consideration of a boycott as a way of keeping public attention on the civil rights effort without actually waging conventional war. View that the unexecuted threat of a boycott can be more effective than a boycott; Call for rigid enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Information on withdrawal of Federal Reserve funds from Alabama banks and strict application of rules against federal aid to local discriminatory agencies.

Examines the issue of home rule for the city of Washington, D.C. in 1965. Reason for the move of the U.S. Congress in denying home rule to the city in 1874; Committee of the House of Representatives which governs the city; Provisions of the crime bill proposed for the city; Efforts to secure home rule for the city in 1960; Proposal of Representative Charles McC. Mathias (R-Md.) for the government of Washington, D.C.; Reason for the opposition of whites to home rule.

Describes the civil rights demonstration from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in March 1965. Description made by Dr. Martin Luther King on the demonstration; Purpose of the campaign that had been accomplished; Most impressive part of the demonstration; Impact of the demonstration on the Negroes of Selma.

Analyzes the competition between California State Controller Alan Cranston and Pierre Salinger for the U.S. Senate seat in 1964. State of politics in California; Comparison between the two candidates; Political background of Cranston and Salinger; Characterization of the candidates' campaign.

Barely a year ago hundreds of thousands of gays and lesbians thronged Washington to celebrate a new measure of political power and social recognition won after long struggle. The White [...]

What becomes a legend most? Over the course of almost fifty years in public life, Richard Nixon created an extraordinary wardrobe of political costumes: the 'respectable Republican cloth coat,' the [...]

However much the 'politics of meaning' enriches Clinton family's discourse, it seems to be excluded from the Administration's practice. At least in the area of culture and the arts, the [...]

The approving media and exultant gay leaders who reported the docility and normality of the March on Washington on April 25 must have missed the thousands of 'Lesbian Avengers' roaring [...]

The only point of this campaign is to get somebody in the Oval Office who will put Robert Reich in the basement. --Overheard at the Democratic National Convention As the [...]

'He's hot, he's sexy-and he's dead.' That memorable Rolling Stone headline referred to Jim Morrison, but it might well have been John F. Kennedy, the other subject of a major [...]

Marty Duberman needed help. He was incurably attracted to his own sex in a time and place-America in the 1950s-when the theology of heterosexuality offered the only hope of earthly [...]

The great debate about the nature of the world order began with the breaching of the Berlin wall on November 1989. It ended barely fifteen months later with the invasion [...]

The Warsaw Pact's occupation of Czechoslovakia from 21 August 1968 shocked many in the west who had hoped that the country was developing a more market-oriented socialism acceptable to the [...]

This is Immigration,' the caller said to the White House liaison, with a hint of perplexity in his voice. We've got an African revolutionary here who's been in jail for [...]

The New Statesman 18 August 1967 At some point in the past three weeks, America lost the will to pursue the war in Vietnam. The failure of will has to […]

Jesse Jackson almost got to the White House. Lunch with George Bush was laid out in the vice presidential office, next-door to the Executive Mansion, but for Jackson it was [...]

Here we go again. Democrats of liberal bent have begun the soothing process of self-delusion that characterizes the early stage of every election campaign in which, as Time predicts for [...]

O.K., BRUCE, THAT'S A WRAP--NEXT! At 7:16 last Tuesday night, the New England Telephone Company declared Bruce Babbitt nonexistent. The networks were still hedging, but Directory Assistance had lost the [...]

STRATEGIC SHIFT TO THE LEFT Class war is raging in Iowa. Robert Dole, millionaire friend of Midwestern entrepreneurs, evokes his po' boy beginnings to score populist points against aging millionaire [...]

IS JESSE THE GREAT WHITE HOPE? As campaign flaps go this year, Jesse Jackson's twenty-four-hour misunderstanding with white social democrats last month should rate only an asterisk to a footnote [...]

AMERIKA: IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE Somewhere in the murky midlands of Amerika, ABC's fourteen-and-a-half-hour miniseries on the extension of Soviet hegemonism to the Western Hemisphere, a native-born American wonders how [...]

Second Serve (May 13, CBS) Gender is a prison from which there is no real hope of escape. Most inmates come to enjoy the advantages of maximum security, the predictability [...]

Under Siege (February 9, NBC) Brazil Worst-case scenarios are not the same as screen-plays. In the Holocaust and Apocalypse School of Dramaturgy, however, aspiring writers are encouraged to scab the [...]

In the early stages of William Hurt's performance as Molina, the Brazilian transvestite and petty pederast trapped in a prison cell, a well-born bit of Brit-lit apocrypha popped into my [...]