Articles
A.F.L.-C.I.O. ConventionHarold Meyerson
Winds of Change in Big Labor
The ABM-SDI DebateAndrew Goldman
The White House Wins All Draws
Review
Accelerator Boards for Software DevelopmentPJ examines three 50286 accelerator boards
Articles
Accuracy in AcademiaJon Wiener
Reed Irvine Rides the Paper Tiger
Feminism in America, 1848-1986
Act OneLouis Banner
An Ad Man's DreamMartin Pedersen
The Making of Gus Hall 1988
Adequate Health Care and an Aging SocietyDaniel Callahan
Are They Morally Compatible?
Adolf's Friend at the U.N.David Evanier
And we're not talking about Kurt Waldheim
Adventures of the MindCarl Sagan and Ann Druyan
At the Heart of a Trillion Worlds
Articles
Afghan NegotiationsLawrence Lifschultz
Can the Pieces Fit Into Place
African Success StoriesGerard Alexander
Democracy and Free Enterprise in Five African Nations
Conversation
After the Cultural DeliriumOctavio Paz and Jean-Francois Revel
After the pastoralR. Bruce Douglass and William J. Gould, Jr.
After the SummitMichael Mandelbaum and Strobe Talbott
Reykjavik and Beyond
AfterwordFred J. Cook
On Being an Enemy of the F.B.I.
Age in the Aging SocietyBernice L. Neugarten and Dail A. Neugarten
Aging and the Health-Care SystemKaren Davis
Economic and Structural Issues
Aid CrusadeGlenys Kinnock and Joan Ruddock
Interview
Aifld's Salvadoran Labor WarsJ. Michael Luhan
A Painful Record of Political Arm-Twisting
Air Transportation: More Government Equals Less SafetyHarry P. Wolfe and John Semmens
From the earliest days of aviation, the market has provided strong incentives for consu...
Algerian-U.S. ConvergenceBernard D. Nossiter
Time to Settle the Sahara War
Alien GraffitiMichael Bishop
(A Personal History of Vagrant Intrusions)
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1986, pp. 106-117
Alienation, Freedom and UtopiaRainer Maischein and Martin Jander
Interview with Andre Gorz
Historical News and Comment
All Denials of Free Speech Undercut a Democratic SocietyNoam Chomsky
The Journal of Historical Review, March 1986, pp. 123-127
All Revved Up and No Place to GoKen Livingston
How the state has ruined a venerable rite of passage.
Alms BuildupJames Keller
Why the Reagan Years Are Good for Charity
Alternative educationAleta Watson
As doubts about the value of public education mount, private schools throughout the sta...
Alternative EnergyNiels Erch
California has an energy glut, which has made life a little tougher for those involved ...
America Moves Right---IThomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers
Big Business Deserts the Democrats
America Moves Right---IIThomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers
Big Business Backs the Freeze
American Farm SubsidiesElmer W. Learn, Philip L. Martin, and Alex F. McCalla, ...
A Bumper Crop
An American Hero: Dr. David Boyd and Emergency Medical CarePaul Glastris
Meet the doctor who saved lives the hard way--by being a bureaucrat.
Americans Can Build Good CarsKitry Krause
But the human cost is still high.
Among the Educationaloids/GlobaloneyChester E. Finn, Jr. and Gary Bauer
The American Spectator, May 1986, pp. 26-27
Anatomy of a FixHarvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh
Anglo-Irish AgreementJon Lee Anderson and Scott Anderson
Protestants Cry Betrayal
Animals Vegetables and MenialsBrian Hipkin
The Archers' Story of the Everyday
AnnotationJeremy Gaunt
Great Show, No Cheap Seats
Annual Financial Section
Annual Financial Section From Now to '90Jim McIntosh and Calvin Coolidge
What lies ahead in the speculative markets.
Another Gann initiative?Susan Yoachum
This time, initiative pro Paul Gann takes aim at state workers with a drive to limit th...
Anti-cigarette SuitsLaurence H. Tribe
Federalism With Smoke and Mirrors
Apocalypse Now?Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson
What Fundamentalists Believe about the End of the World
An Approach to Windowing for the Assembly Language ProgrammerC.D. Hawkinson
An illustration of one module from an assembler library
Aquino Takes ChargeCarl H. Lande and Richard Hooley
Arab DeterrentsStephen Green
Going "MAD" in the Middle Easat
The Arab States Under StressRoger Owen
The Impact of Falling Oil Prices
Are you ready to play "Blotto"?Ed Goldman
A slightly facetious look at current Lottery myths and future Lottery plans.
Arms Control TreatiesWilliam R. Harris
How Do They Restrain Soviet Strategic Defense Programs?
Vital Signs
ArtShehbaz Safrani
The Grandeur of the Getty
ArtInga Karetnikova and Igor Golomstock
Big Brother Sits for a Portrait
The Artful DodgersMorton Mintz
Did tobacco executives tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Aryan World CongressEric Scigliano
America's Down-Home Racists
ASEAN NightsOwen Harries
There are limits to the Reagan Doctrine
AsiansJudy Tachibana
An overview of California's fast-growing Asian community, which will soon have the numb...
ASM: Optimizing for SpeedMichael Hoyt
Faster screen dumps to the printer
An Assembler Programming SuggestionGraham Pearson
Make your code modular by using the GROUP statement
Assembler Source Code for DOS Function CallsSteven K. O'Brien and Wing Kit Cheung
An addition to Arvind Kumar's "Using DOS to Call Programs from Turbo Pascal"
Assemblywoman Teresa HughesJennifer Kerr
Profiles of the Legislature's Education Committee chairpersons and co-authors of the ed...
Atrocious MiseryWayne K. Durrill
The African Origins of Famine in Northern Somalia, 1839-1884
The American Historical Review, April 1986, pp. 287-306
Attacking PlaqueGeorge K. Stookey, Ph.D. and H. William Gilmore, D.D.S., M.S.D., ...
The Saturday Evening Post, May 1986, pp. 22-25
Australia Next?Peter Samuel and Colin Rubenstein
Automation and UsAnna Shapiro
Where Will All the People Go?
Autonomy and RedemptionJoel Whitebook
Reply to Gonzales, Breins and Wolin
Ayn RandStephen Cox
Theory versus Creative Life
The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Winter 1986, pp. 19-30
Back From the BrinkMcGeorge Bundy, Morton H. Halperin, and William W. Kaufmann, ...
Back to the BasicsMichael Harrington
Progressive Economics for 1988
The Bad BarrelKen Auletta
Wall Street says Dennis Levine was a yuppie who got greedy -- an aberration in a good s...
The Bad Girls of Gamma NuBenjamin J. Stein
The trouble started at USC when they thought Marie was Schmooey Lipsher's daughter
Books & the Arts
Bad Manners & Bad FaithMaria Margaronis and Elizabeth Pochoda
A Bad time for GiantsJohn K. Williams
Do giant corporations threaten our liberty? Is small necessarily beautiful? The answers...
Bakersfield racesBruce Scheidt
A look at the campaigns for the 16th Senate and 33rd Assembly district seats in and aro...
Ballad of an American TerroristL.J. Davis
A neo-Nazi's dream of order
Banking on Unreal Estate: The Appraisal ScamKenneth Weiss
The bank thinks that shack is worth a million... and you may have to pay for it.
Baseball's New Family ImageJamie Kitman
The Owners' Moral Grandstanding
BASIC: Networking---What's the Problem?Robert R. Shaffer
A BASIC fan finds hidden worth in Microsoft's QuickBASIC Compiler
BASIC: Structuring BASIC Output with Field StatementsBernard H. Robinson, Jr.
Position your ASCII data on the screen or printer
Basque Elections LoomGabriel Jackson
Can the Basques Live With Spain?
The battle for privacyDuncan Campbell and Steve Connor
The Battle for the ConstitutionEdwin Meese III
The Attorney General Replies to His Critics
Be Ashamed to DieRob Chilson and William F. Wu
Analog/Astounding Science Fiction, July 1986, pp. 110-124
Bear Politics for the 80sWilbur Wood
What Is Wild and What Is Natural?
Because of Our Many SinsIra Robinson
The Contemporary Jewish World as Reflected in the Responsa of Moses Feinstein
The Beginning of the End? The Anglo-Irish AccourdMartin Jacques, Henry Patterson, and Bob Rowthorn, ...
A Roundtable Discussion
The Berkeley Youth WarsGail L. Zellman and Steven L. Schlossman
Berkeley's Radical SlumlordsJeff Riggenbach
They work for the government, not for riches. Their tool is rent control; their motive,...
The Best Governor in AmericaJack Hitt
And you've never heard of him.
Better Red than SteinbrennerJonathan Rowe
Why fans should own their teams.
The Washington Monthly, May 1986, pp. 13-19
Beware of the Dog!Vicki Hearne
Thurber, Rex, and the making of a hero
Beyond Crackpot MoralismAlan Wolfe
Realpolitik and U.S. Foreign Policy
Articles
Beyond Economic ReformMarie Gottschalk
The Politics of Change in China
Beyond RamboJohn V.N. Philip
The Making of White Nights, an Anti-Communist Classic
Beyond SanctionsRonald Walters
A Comprehensive U.S. Policy for Southern Africa
Bias on the BenchElliot Rothenberg
Justice is supposed to be blind. But judges are winking at criminals with trendy politics.
Big brother, little brotherMichael Fallon
The rivalry between the state's two university systems.
Big Business is Watching YouTim Healy and Peter Marshall
Bill Hamm: a California Journal interviewMoving on to different pastures, former Legislative Analyst William Hamm talks about hi...
The bioengineering WombGeorge Gilder
It could mean that men and women will never again have to get along
The American Spectator, May 1986, pp. 22-24
The Bishops' SynodT.M. Pasca
The Three Churches of Catholicism
Blacks and the GOPHenry Klingeman
I Just Called to Say I Love You
Blacks and the GOPS.J. Masty
Michigan's Cool Hand Luke
Bocce and the Economics of CollusionJames Doti
With a game of bocce as a backdrop, the author shows the inherent instability of monopo...
Boning Up on CalciumCory SerVaas, M.D., DeLamar Gibbons, M.D., and Sunghee K. Kim, Ph.D., R.D., ...
Books for ChristmasHoliday gift suggestsions from some of our favorite readers and writers
Borderline CasesGeorge Packer
Mirror Images of Ghana and Togo
Born in the U.S.A.David Fraser
The Civil Law Theory of Mitchell Franklin
Boston DiaristAll the Fine Young Kennedys
Bradley-Duke rematchRichard Zeiger
Tom Bradley and George Deukmejian are locked in a grim rematch for the governor's office.
Bradley: a campaign in trouble?Richard Zeiger
A variety of campaign woes continue to shrink Tom Bradley's standings in the polls. Wil...
Bread & Roses, Crusts & ThornsLeon Fink
The Troubled Story of 1199
BrickbatsRobert W. Poole, Jr and Eric Marti