Features

• The Chile Con

  Stephen Kay

  Advocates of privatizing Social Security point to Chile. But take a closer look at who's really benefiting from the Chilean system.

• Lingo Jingo

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  The story told by the English-only movement is nonsense from beginning to end. No language was ever less in need of official protection.

• Popping Contributions

  Robert Dreyfuss

  Last year conservatives tried and failed to destroy the effectiveness of food and drug regulation. Now they say they want only modest FDA reforms. Watch out.

• How She Got a Job

  Michael Grunwald

  Everyone who participates in this innovative welfare-to-work program finds steady employment. Too bad it's precisely the kind of effort that the new federal welfare law discourages.

• What Russia Teaches Us Now

  Stephen Holmes

  Metastasizing organized crime, massive tax evasion, unregulated sales of missiles--the people of Russia and the world now have more to fear from the breakdown of the Russian state than from its power. Why liberty itself depends on competent government.

• The Moynihan Enigma

  Jacob Heilbrunn

  Why the Senate's intellectual giant is a strangely ineffective lawmaker.

• Family Feud

  Maggie Gallagher

  A reply to "Family Values, The Sequel," May-June 1997.

• State of the Debate: Back to Boys' School

  Jason Zengerle

  Tender anecdotes about elite all-boys' schools have ignited efforts to expand single-sex education to Americans from all backgrounds. But there's another side of the story.

• Of Our Time: Cyberpower and Freedom

  Paul Starr

• How We Lost the Peace Dividend

  Ann Markusen

  After every previous war, we sent troops home and cut defense spending. The Col War is over, but real spending still runs 85 percent of the Cold War average.

• The Sexual Counterrevolution

  Scott Stossel

  The sexual revolution brought excess as well as progress. In the aftermath of AIDS, a new puritanism threatens to repeal both.

• Behind the Numbers: Capital's Gain

  Lawrence Mishel

  Contrary to the conventional view among economists, the shares of national income going to capital and labor have shifted. Capital's gain has been labor's loss.

• The Real China Question

  Greg Mastel

  How to admit China and other former communist countries into the world trading club--without destroying the international economic system in the process.

• Regressive Recovery

  Peter Schrag

  If California's present is the nation's future, then the Golden State's split-level prosperity is an ominous social indicator.