Rundown of Print Version

April 1999 - Volume 31 Issue 4

SILENCE OF THE LIBERALS: Conservatives are running the poverty debate - here's why liberals should join it. -- Jason DeParle investigates the reasons behind and the results of the liberal absence in the debate over how to deal with poverty in America.

"This is where liberals should get back into the debate: Rather than simply warning about the coming failure of welfare reform, they should try to build on its successes to achieve a bigger victory."

LEFT BEHIND
Alexandra Starr
The Monthly's Alexandra Starr looks into why as the great push to move the masses out of welfare takes place, one group is being left behind - the Latinas.

GUESS WHO SAVED THE SOUTH BRONX? BIG GOVERNMENT
Robert Worth
As NYC's' economic policy was driving investors further and further away, failed urban renewal programs could do nothing to rescue the Bronx from spiraling even further downward into decay. There was, however, a silent an unexpected partner that helped to save this damaged burough. The Monthly's Robert Worth explains.

TILTING AT WINDMILLS
Charles Peters muses upon: "Troops to Teachers... Lawmakers to Lobbyists... Ivy League Cops... Precocious Campaign Contributors... Remembering Sir Anthony..."

GIVING AWAY THE FARM
Jonathan Chait
Why Privatization won't solve Social Security's problems. A review of COUNTDOWN TO REFORM: The Great Social Security Debate by Henry J. Aaron and Robert D. Reischauer.

THE CHOCOLATE WARS
James Surowiecki
A review of THE EMPERORS OF CHOCOLATE: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by James Glenn Brenner.

THE NEXT WAR
Ernest Blazar
A review of FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE by Ralph Peters.

MEMO OF THE MONTH
How the White House staff is not better read.

TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Orca Crooning, Mammaries Contraband, God's Ad Agent, and more...