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It's a sweltering late-summer day and Sandra Seegers has already spent several hours trekking through Washington D.C.'s middle-class Crestwood neighborhood collecting signatures for her campaign to recall D.C. Mayor Marion [...]

In March of 1996, all 1,700 residents of Weyauwega Wisconsin skipped town for three weeks -- involuntarily. The reason for their impromptu spring break: an 81-car train carrying propane and [...]

As far as summer events go, this August's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association doesn't have quite the same marquee value as, say, the recent opening of the [...]

Oil and banking heir Richard Mellon Scaife comes from a long line of philanthropists. Granduncle Andrew donated his extensive art collection to the American people, and built the National Gallery [...]

Back in February of 1996, normally easygoing Gary Ruskin was on the warpath. His call to arms: news reports that two of the most prominent Republicans in Congress, Representatives Bud [...]

IN I982, WHEN THE REVEREND SUN Myung Moon launched The Washington Times as a conservative alternative to The Washington Post, he spared no expense to establish his fledgling paper as [...]

No one is talking about the best and cheapest solution Unless your last name is Rockfeller, chances are you're unnerved by the sky-rocketing cost of a college education. Perhaps you've [...]

How the INS citizenship test misses the point As a young man in Ethiopia, Binyam Tamene was not exactly the silent type. 'I thought the world was free, and I [...]

Describes the responsibilities of George Tenet as the director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Need for stable leadership since the end of the cold war; Challenge to the agency's internal ethos; Debate about the future and purpose of the CIA; Discussion on internal problems at the CIA; Report on an internal investigation into the CIA's activities in Guatemala.

Focuses on the actions taken by the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton to repeal Proposition 215, a measure that legalize marijuana as a medical treatment which are distributed through cannabis clubs in several states. Specifics of a civil injunction issued by the U.S. Justice Department as part of Clinton's strategy against Proposition 215; Concerns of the Clinton administration against medical-marijuana use; Measures suggested by mayors of Santa Cruz and San Francisco in California to support Proposition 215.

Deals with the literary inclinations of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Theme of his book "Escape to Hell and Other Stories"; Publishers of his books; Reputation of Qaddafi among western countries; Involvement of former U.S. Press Secretary and news correspondent Pierre Salinger in the promotion of his books; Comments on several literary works by Qaddafi; Assertions made by Salinger about the misunderstanding of Qaddafi by the western world.