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For two generations, Americans have largely defined their country and, to some extent, themselves in terms of the cold war. From McCarthyism to backyard bomb shelters, from the arms race to the space race, from Alger Hiss to the Marine spy scandal -- whatever else might have changed, the cold war...
The Senate Select Committee on Ethics is not known for speedy action or exemplary justice. In February the committee closed the books on four of the five Senators accused of intervening with federal regulators on behalf of failed S&L boss and campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. However, the members...
To sociologist James Jasper of New York University, today's would-be censors and neo-Puritans belong to two disparate groups. One consists of those, frequently working class in origin, who feel their status threatened by differing life-styles -- hence their hostility to drugs and casual sex and their sympathy...
The battle over immigration policy is yet another AIDS-related issue in which the politics of emotion have overtaken the reign of reason. The wrangling began in 1987, when Senator Jesse Helms pushed through an amendment that added AIDS to the Immigration and Naturalization Service's list of dangerous and...
At first, Bush was less sure than Reagan about how to deal with Gorbachev, in part because he was less sure about himself. He fretted not only about Helms & Co. but also about his standing with the broad center of American and international public opinion. He knew he had a...