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April 1999 - Volume 31 Issue 4

Features

4 Tilting at Windmills
"Troops to Teachers... Lawmakers to Lobbyists... Ivy League Cops... Precocious Campaign Contributors... Remembering Sir Anthony..."
by Charles Peters

9 The Death of Local Radio
In the last three years, corporate America has gobbled up much of the dial. But there's a way to take it back.
by Lydia Polgreen

12 The Silence of the Liberals
Conservatives are running the poverty debate - here's why liberals should join it.
by Jason DeParle

18 Left Behind
Everybody's leaving the welfare rolls - except Latinas.
by Alexandra Starr

23 Growth is Not Enough
If you think a robust economy will automatically generate prosperity for all, think again.
by Frank Levy

26 Guess Who Saved the South Bronx?
Big Government
The silent partner in "community development."
by Robert Worth

On Political Books

26 Lessons Not Learned
What the military missed in Somalia.
by Sean D. Naylor

38 God and Mammon
The free market is less conservative than you think.
by Jonathan Rowe

42 Giving Away the Farm
Why privatization won't solve social security's problems.
by Jonathan Chait

45 political booknotes -- Reviews by Walter Shapiro, Douglas McGray, Kevin A. Swope, Timothy Noah, Roger Simon, James Surowiecki, Ernest Blazar, and Elise Ackerman

Departments

2 Letters
16 Monthly Journalism Award
32 Who's Who
34 Memo of the Month
56 Tidbits & Outrages