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A journalist relates, through remembrances of conversations with reporter Jean Stein, the latter's introduction to journalism and his start in extreme radical reporting. Starting at 'Time' in 1961, Stein was quickly entrenched in late 1960s San Francisco Bay Area political movements. His initial attempts to merely report activities left him feeling empty, and led to his eventual decision to become part of the Free Speech Movement, rather than a simple reporter.

Martin Scorsese's new movie, 'The Age of Innocence,' is based on the Edith Wharton novel about a high society love triangle in turn-of-the-century New York City. To preserve the language of the book, Scorsese uses a narrator and has actors recite thoughts aloud.

Gore Vidal may not have been the first well-known American writer to talk freely about his same-sex orientation, but he was certainly the one who led the way for all [...]

The citizens of the former USSR struggle with reforms that came with the disintegration of the old state. Hyperinflation, shortages, unemployment and economic decline are some of the problems which these people have to face. Some effects of the upheaval on Russian society are discussed.

Tim Robbins marks his directorial and screenwriting debut with 'Bob Roberts.' He also acted in and wrote songs for the movie which is about a right-wing, folk-singing businessman running for senator. The quasidocumentary film is a dissection of American politics and its relationship with society.

The electoral system in America is now being convulsed by the broadest, fiercest voter insurgency in perhaps 140 years, and the left is watching from the sidelines. This need not [...]

The left has failed to capitalize on the political dissatisfaction that is rife in the US and which is being exploited by Ross Perot. Jesse Jackson erred when he did not mold his Rainbow Coalition into a political party. An independent Jackson candidacy would force progressive issues onto the political agenda.

Jerry Brown's victory in the Connecticut primary on March 24 transformed the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. What had been a protest candidacy, 'a dog nipping at the heels [...]

The big deal in Lowell this winter was an all-day 'motivational program' given by a TV self-esteem pitchman named Tony Robbins to a crowd of some 2,700 people, each of [...]

It was said of Belgrade after World War II that there was nothing in the shops except dead flies and pictures of Tito. So it is this winter in Manchester, [...]

The movies that deal with the assassination of John F. Kennedy include 'JFK,' 'Ruby,', 'Slacker,' 'Married to It,' and 'Love Field.' More movies of this type are expected by 1993, the 30th anniversary of the assassination.

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.

The time has come to add health care to the structure of public prosperity in America. It is a time that recalls other great public points of departure: government recognition [...]

Paul Tsongas came out of the blue. The one-term Senator from Massachusetts who quit Washington in 1984 because of a diagnosis of incurable cancer was barely in the bleachers of [...]

In the marvelous melodrama that is small-state politics, the more-or-less liberal Democratic Governor, Madeleine Kunin, loomed as Sanders's archetypal antagonist. Like Sanders, Kunin was an oddball in traditional Vermont; as [...]

War creates consent. The best wars-those that are fought decisively, are won quickly and cost little-deliver so much approval to those who wage them it's a wonder strong leaders allow [...]

The twenty-four weeks' crisis, from the expedition of U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf right up to the eve of destruction, had an extraordinary impact on American history, more emphatic [...]

Washington '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 [...]

If a theme could be discerned in the Democratic National Convention beneath the balloons, the bravado and the boilerplate, it was the emergence of a new social culture in a [...]

That sturdy old American political weathervan the New Hampshire Primary, has become mo like the whirling arrow on the television quiz show Wheel of Fortunix a media game of who [...]

As the New Hampshire primary heats up, we forgo our usual editorial commentary in order to present a report from our intrepid colleagues Andrew Kopkind and Alexander Cockburn, who have [...]

BUCHANAN - WE'D RATHER BE RIGHT Pat Buchanan struck at noon. Right on the button for the cable news shows and precisely at the moment when workers in the Capitol [...]

The Festa dell'Unita, a three-week national fair run at the end of every summer by the late Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.), used to end in a mass rally with fiery [...]

THE STUART CASE RACE, CLASS AND MURDER IN BOSTON Murder is war on a very small scale, and like great battles, a single slaying can define and focus the history [...]

The article presents incidents related to the world politics. José Napoleón Duarte's, stunning defeat in the legislative and municipal elections was a long overdue and richly deserved come- uppance for a man who thought that becoming president was more important than maintaining political integrity in El Salvador. For most of the past decade he has been a pathetic hostage of the armed forces, failing to grasp that he might have secured his political future had he found the courage to attempt the reforms on which his populist reputation was based. Another incident refers to the political campaign of Jesse Jackson on television as a U.S. Presidential candidate.

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.

Presents a letter to the editor about the political development in the United States.

The article focuses on issues related to South Africa's liberation movement. The deprivations of Blacks in the face of an abundance of cultural riches delivered to Whites has finally created the most disruptive, sustained, nationwide protest campaign in apartheid's history. The official banning of the African National Congress has forced the organization to internationalize its strategy on both the diplomatic and the military front; the imprisonment of authentic Black leaders has made their situation synonymous with the social enslavement of Black people, and thus has brought worldwide support for liberation.

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.

Features four future epic films. 'Starman,' directed by John Carpenter; and '2010: The Year We Make Contact,' directed by Peter Hyams; 'The Terminator,' directed by James Cameron; 'Supergirl,' directed by Jeannot Szwarc.

The article focuses on the European Parliament. From Milan to Manchester and from Madrid to Munich, voters do not much care which of the 567 deputies represents them in Strasbourg, so when they do bother to go to the polls, they can express their preference without worrying about wasting their vote. The European elections, held every five years, thus serve as a glorified opinion poll, providing a good snapshot of the political mood of the moment, though not necessarily a guide to future national elections.

The article focuses on issues related to gay people. The issue of gay people fills the media, charges politics, saturates popular and elite culture. It is the stuff of everyday conversation and public discourse. Not for thirty years has a class of Americans endured the peculiar pain and exhilaration of having their civil rights and moral worth. Their very humanness has been debated at every level of public life. Lesbians and gay men today wake up to headlines alternately disputing their claim to equality under the law, supporting their right to family status, denying their desire, affirming their social identity. INSET: Flash: 15 million gays disappear..

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.

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.

Reports that the bulk of the surviving U.S. left has joined the Democratic Party center, without the will to inflect debate, the influence to inform policy or the leverage to share power. Negation of the reasons for the left's own existence; View that Jesse Jackson represented an opportunity for the left in the Democratic Party.

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.

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.

Focuses on the film 'Missing,' directed by Costa-Gavras. Plot; Characters; Film location.

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.

Criticizes California Governor Ronald Reagan's budget and tax program. Political platform of Reagan; Characteristics of Reagan; Observation on his Creative Society; Information on his budget cuts; Good example of Reagan's early appointment philosophy; Actions taken in preparation for campaigning for the Presidency.