Let's Make a Deal
As the proposed tobacco settlement heads to Congress, the anti-smoking movement is divided over whether it's a good deal after all. A guide to the players, the alliances they've established, and who hopes to get what.
Congress
Courting Trouble
Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.
Taxing Times
Squabbling between flat taxers and sales taxers could allow the Internal Revenue Code to escape unscathed.
Polluted Science
New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulatory power grab?
Armey of the Right
Majority Leader Dick Armey may well be the next Speaker of the House. What's his agenda?
Hints from Eloise
Welfare-reform pioneer Eloise Anderson speaks bluntly--as always--about race, class, sex, and the realities of "the system."
Judge Dread
Robert Bork's hyperbolic assault on contemporary culture is a best-seller. But it has even his conservative allies backing away.
Power Politics
Supporters of federal power privatization have learned a lot from failures in the last Congress.
Gulf Lore Syndrome
Why are the Gulf War vets getting sick? You won't find out by reading The New York Times and USA Today.
Clash of the Titans
The coming collapse of Social Security pits the baby boom against the New Deal--and the New Dealers have come out swinging.
