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7,592 Articles,
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Corporation and State Taxes: The Big Ones Get Away
One area of government where we can save money by hiring more bureaucrats.
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Issues of the 1960s = 1 Year, 6 Issues, 58 Articles-
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Issues of 1969 = 6 Issues, 58 Articles
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Issues of the 1970s = 10 Years, 108 Issues, 1,398 Articles-
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Issues of 1970 = 9 Issues, 95 Articles
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Issues of 1971 = 11 Issues, 109 Articles
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Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 124 Articles
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Issues of 1973 = 11 Issues, 124 Articles
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Issues of 1974 = 11 Issues, 119 Articles
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Issues of 1975 = 10 Issues, 113 Articles-
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January 1975 Issue = 14 Articles- ---, p. 3
- Conning the Boss:The Art of Getting Away With Doing Good by Richard Shell, pp. 4-9
- ---, pp. 10-12
- Tidbits and Outrages, p. 13
- Corporation and State Taxes: The Big Ones Get Away by Jim Rosapepe, pp. 14-19
- Memo of the Month, p. 20
- Down and Out on Capitol Hill by Arthur Levine, pp. 21-22
- ---, p. 23
- Staff Infection by Bennett Beach, pp. 24-32
- Space Race by Iric Nathanson and Norman Ornstein, pp. 33-36
- Ben Bradlee and His All-Star Revue by James Fallows, pp. 37-48
- Dust to Dust by Alicia Tyler, pp. 49-58
- Caring for the Natives by Hamlet J. Barry III, pp. 59-61
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Political Book Notes, pp. 62-66 - 9 Reviews- The Airship by Basil Collier
- The Bankers by Martin Mayer
- Blue Collar Community by William Kornblum
- Dossier by Aryeh Neier
- Popular Culture and High Culture by Herbert J. Gans
- Proudly We Hail by Kenneth Lasson
- The Trial of Martin Luther King by Alan F. Westin and Barry Mahoney
- Who Controls the Mass Media? by Martin H. Seiden
- The Witness and I by O. Edmund Clubb
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February 1975 Issue = 10 Articles- Accountants: Those Wonderful People Who Brought You Maurice Stans by Thomas Redburn, pp. 4-16
- Memo of the Month, p. 17
- Shaking the Sheiks by David Ignatius, pp. 18-22
- Getting Tough With Israel by J. William Fulbright, pp. 23-27
- Arming the Shah: Alms for the Rich by Walter Shapiro, pp. 28-32
- View from the Bench: A Judge's Day by Judge Lois G. Forer, pp. 33-39
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 40-45
- The Political Puzzle, p. 46
- Getting to Know Your Congressman: The $500 Understanding by Arthur Levine, pp. 47-62
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Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 6 Reviews- Dear America by Karl Hess
- Ending Insult to Injury by Jeffrey O'Connell
- The Experts by Clyde Edwin Pettit
- The Heel of Achilles by Arthur Koestler
- Pyramids of Sacrifice by Peter L. Berger
- The Rise and Fall of the DC-10 by John Godson
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March 1975 Issue = 12 Articles- The Most Famous Journalist in America by James Fallows, pp. 4-21
- Memo of the Month, p. 22
- All the Presidential Men by Paul R. Clancy, pp. 23-30
- Was Sirhan Sirhan on the Grassy Knoll? by Tom Bethell, pp. 31-39
- Political Book Award, pp. 40-42
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The Master Builder by David Hapgood, pp. 43-46 - 1 Review- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- The Master Biographer by Charles Peters, pp. 47-48
- Good Legislation Has Nothing to Do With It by Walter Shapiro, pp. 49-53
- Tidbits and Outrages, p. 54
- Taste, Class, and Mary Tyler Moore by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 55-61
- The Political Puzzle, p. 62
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Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 11 Reviews- The Border South States by Neal R. Peirce
- The Case Against College by Caroline Bird and Helene Mandelbaum
- Eight Bads and Eight Goods by Alfred de Grazia
- The Energy Crisis by Michael Tanzer
- The Mayor's man by Barry Gottehrer
- Moments of Truth? by Marvin Barrett
- Political Animals by Walter Trohan
- The Other Government by Mark J. Green
- There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch by Milton Friedman
- Watchmen in the Night by Theodore C. Sorensen
- Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm by Victor Alexander Thompson
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April 1975 Issue = 11 Articles- Letters, p. 4
- Ripping off Con Ed by Fred C. Shapiro, pp. 5-15
- The Political Puzzle, p. 16
- Beets, Beef, and Henry Wallace by Thomas Redburn, pp. 17-24
- Memo of the Month, pp. 25-28
- What Politicians Really Want by Walter Shapiro, pp. 29-33
- Al Ullman: How Like a Mills by Finlay Lewis, pp. 34-39
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 40-41
- Better Than Deep Throat by Arthur Levine, pp. 42-52
- Is It Getting Too Sexy? by Timothy Ingram, pp. 53-62
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Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 7 Reviews- Burn the Schools--Save the Children by David Melton
- Clout by Len O'Connor
- Inside the House by Daniel Rapoport
- Political Culture by Walter A. Rosenbaum
- The Professors by Herbert B. Livesey
- Resignation in Protest by Edward Weisband and Thomas M. Franck
- Vital Signs, USA by John Fischer
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May 1975 Issue = 11 Articles- Letters on Joseph Kraft by Russell Baker, Timothy Frasca, and William Greider, ..., pp. 5-11
- From Mickey Spillane to Erica Jong by Larry Mcmurtry, pp. 12-22
- Congress V. Kissinger: The New Equalizers by Frederick Poole, pp. 23-30
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 31-32
- The Development Set by Tom Ramey and Ross Coggins, p. 33
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 34-39
- What the Republican Party Means to Me by Arthur Levine, pp. 40-48
- A Guaranteed Annual Income For Consultants by Robert Samuelson, pp. 49-52
- Memo of the Month, p. 53
- The Gold in the Garbage: What the Left Can Learn From Ayn Rand by James Fallows, pp. 54-60
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Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 3 Reviews- Breach of Faith by Theodore H. White
- Conversations With Kennedy by Benjamin C. Bradlee
- How the Good Guys Finally Won by Jimmy Breslin
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June 1975 Issue = 11 Articles- Wedding Presents, Cigars, and Deference by Thomas Redburn, pp. 4-10
- Anything You Can Eat, Drink, Or Fornicate in One Afternoon by Peter Gruenstein and Daniel West, pp. 11-14
- Memo of the Month, p. 15
- American Communes: Voluntary Maoism by John Rothchild, pp. 16-23
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 24-25
- One Man We Remembered by John Marks, pp. 26-29
- The Others We Forgot by Charles Peters, pp. 30-33
- The Political Puzzle, p. 34
- Nelson Rockefeller's Pill: The UDC by Steven R. Weisman, pp. 35-45
- The Mellons, the Mafia, and a Colonial County by George Crile III, pp. 46-62
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Political Booknotes, pp. 63-66 - 9 Reviews- The Brain Bank of America by Philip M. Boffey
- The Forest Killers by Jack Shepherd
- I Don't Need You When I'm Right by Victor Gold
- King Cancer by Philip Nobile
- Laws Against Marijuana by Arthur D. Hellman
- Making Democracy Safe for Oil by Christopher T. Rand
- Power, Influence and Authority by David V.J. Bell
- The Reaffirmation of Republicanism by Gary W. Reichard
- The United States and Chile by James F. Petras and Morris Morley
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July 1975 Issue = 11 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-6
- Apres Henry Le Deluge by Roger Morris, pp. 7-15
- Political Puzzle, pp. 16-17
- Open Files: Letting Exxon in by Thomas Redburn, pp. 18-21
- Gaylord Nelson and The Myth of the White Knight by Walter Shapiro, pp. 22-34
- Memo, pp. 35-36
- Why Johnny Can't Eat: The Saga of the Farm Bill by Dan Balz, pp. 37-48
- John Gardner and the Albany Nymphettes by Taylor Branch, pp. 49-55
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 56-57
- The Air Force's Secret War on Unemployment by Peter J. Ognibene, pp. 58-61
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Political Booknotes, pp. 62-66 - 9 Reviews- The Beat Inflation Strategy by Roger Klein and William Wolman
- The Case Against Direct Election of the President by Judith Best
- The Federal Rathole by Donald Lambro
- From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter by Joseph P. Lash, Jonathan Lash, and Felix Frankfurter, ...
- Many Sovereign States by Dan W. Lufkin
- The Politics of Extinction by Lewis Regenstein
- The Remarkable Life of Dr. Armand Hammer by Robert Considine
- Washington Now by Austin H. Kiplinger and Knight A. Kiplinger
- With Fidel by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones
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September 1975 Issue = 12 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-6
- The Moral Myopia of Magazines by Michael Kinsley, pp. 7-18
- The Case Against Energy Independence by Charles Peters and Glen Allerhand, pp. 19-26
- Tying the Imperial Purse Strings by Ben Roberts, pp. 27-30
- Selling the Sahel by Karen Deyoung, pp. 31-41
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 42-43
- State Government All-Stars by Richard Hall, pp. 44-50
- Memo of the Month, p. 51
- Political Puzzle, p. 52
- Expense Account Insights on the South by Tom Bethell, pp. 53-57
- Guide to APSA, pp. 58-59
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Political Booknotes, pp. 60-66 - 15 Reviews- Better Giving by George G Kirstein
- Can America Win the Next War? by Drew Middleton
- Execution Eve by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley
- Labor by Herrick S Roth
- Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Morality of Consent by Alexander M. Bickel
- My Father: A Remembrance by Hugo Black, Jr.
- The New Reformers by Stephen C. Schlesinger
- Political Money by David W. Adamany and George E. Agree
- Power! How to Get It, How to Use It by Michael Korda
- A Presidential Nation by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
- Presidential Style by Samuel I. Rosenman and Dorothy Rosenman
- Washington Journal by Elizabeth Drew
- Witness to Power by Marquis W. Childs
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November 1975 Issue = 11 Articles- NASA (That's Right, NASA )is a Good Thing by Tom Bethell, pp. 5-15
- The Capital Crisis: Crying Wolf on Wall Street by David Ignatius, pp. 16-22
- Memo of the Month, p. 23
- The Two Party Pork Barrel by Walter Shapiro, pp. 24-30
- This Time Everybody's Got a Creep by Bruce F. Freed, pp. 31-37
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 38-39
- Now You're Thinking Like a Lawyer by Michael Kinsley and Charles Peters, pp. 40-48
- Political Puzzle, p. 49
- The Martial Arts by Jane Berdes, pp. 50-53
- The Spoiled Child by Henry Fairlie, pp. 54-60
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Political Booknotes, pp. 61-66 - 6 Reviews- Act of Vengeance by Trevor Armbrister
- Don't Make No Waves---Don't Back No Losers by Milton L. Rakove
- The Last Days of the Club by Chris Welles
- Power Shift by Kirkpatrick Sale
- The Promise and the Performance by Lewis J. Paper
- Up from Communism by John P. Diggins
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December 1975 Issue = 10 Articles- Notes Toward a Definition of National Security by Richard D. Cotter, pp. 4-20
- Memo of the Month, p. 21
- Mumbling It Through by Ann Cooper, pp. 22-26
- A Report from the Wiretap Subculture by James M. Ellison, pp. 27-33
- The Quote Circuit by Tom Bethell, pp. 34-39
- The Political Puzzle, p. 40
- We Could Have Saved New York by Charles Peters, pp. 41-46
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 47-49
- Milton Friedman:The Ambiguous Achievement of a Positive Economist by David Ignatius, pp. 50-62
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Political Booknotes, pp. 63-66 - 2 Reviews- Cesar Chavez by Winthrop Yinger
- Child Care and ABCs Too by Sar A. Levitan and Karen Cleary Alderman
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Issues of 1976 = 11 Issues, 120 Articles
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Issues of 1977 = 11 Issues, 149 Articles
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Issues of 1978 = 11 Issues, 226 Articles
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Issues of 1979 = 11 Issues, 219 Articles
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Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 110 Issues, 2,280 Articles-
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Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 225 Articles
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Issues of 1981 = 11 Issues, 232 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 101 Issues, 2,095 Articles-
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Issues of 1991 = 10 Issues, 196 Articles
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Issues of 1992 = 10 Issues, 207 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 10 Years, 88 Issues, 1,675 Articles-
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 5 Issues, 86 Articles-
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Issues of 2010 = 5 Issues, 86 Articles