Paper Crisis
We didn't really have an international debt crisis before, but Congress is doing its best to create one.
May 1984
Behind the Cancer Terror
Why are Americans gripped by fear over the least trace of chemicals suspected of causing cancer? An excerpt from The Apocalyptics: Politics, Science, and the Big Cancer Lie.*
Features
Battling the Budget Bulge—Gracefully
How can the federal budget be cut? Let us count the ways, says the Grace Commission.
Prohibition for the Younger Set?
Should the legal drinking age be 18 or 21? The debate goes on, but it ignores the fundamental issue.
An Education in Empire Building
How does a bureaucracy save itself from extinction? The Department of Education has a lesson plan.
