How Washington tries to strangle even the best ideas.

Student loan reform Congress and the press focussed on the wrong aspect of Pres Clinton's student loan reform and almost ruined the passage of it. It allows pay-as-you-can loans for students in return for national service, but the media's main focus was the creation of direct lending.

Newhouse.

Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War.

Proof that Gingrich & Co. don't know what they're doing.

Newt Gingrich and Republicans in Congress It is ironic that Gingrich and other Republicans want to abolish the Office of Technology Assessment and severely cut the General Accounting Office. They claim to want to cut waste in government, and these two agencies make it possible to get data to assess these cuts.

Race and Culture.

The Death of Common Sense.

The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf.

The pension time bomb.

Unethically high pensions of government employees Federal employees earn obscenely high pensions, and the new 1995 Congress should address reforming these pensions. In 1994, total pension amounts for federal and military workers were $65 billion. The already high pensions should not be given automatic cost-of-living adjustments.

The truth about twenty-somethings.

20-year-olds - Cover Story Adults in their 20s are leaning more towards conservatism. A majority of them side with Republicans probably because of their alienation with society. Many from both the right and the left are intelligent, practical and anti-government.

Under Newt management.

Bipartisan leadership in Congress Congress may have difficulties coming to a bipartisan consensus on many issues with the influx of so many conservative Republicans such as Newt Gingrich. One way they can overcome their clashes is to pass welfare reform legislation.

Understanding Health Care Reform.

Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America.

With Friends Like These.