Articles from Washington Monthly (October 1, 1998)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A new prescription: investing in substance-abuse treatment would take a big bite out of crime.	Califano, Joseph A.		2043
Achilles heel: why our top political leaders are easy targets for terrorists.	Bryson-Alderman, Jason		1778
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.	Newton, Jim	Book Review	1134
Love Potion No. 91: Viagra is just the latest weapon in American's battle with Mother Nature.	Cottle, Michelle	Cover Story	3506
Memo of the Month.		Column	373
Potty politics: doesn't the federal government have anything better to worry about.	Lieberman, Ben	Brief Article	1201
Republicans at the trough: in the states, as in Washington, Republicans are just as fond of pork as Democrats.	Bridges, Tyler		2517
Sex, lies & presidents: Clinton's not the first president to shade the truth.	Shenkman, Rick	Cover Story	1523
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration.	Worth, Robert	Book Review	1676
Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America.	Schrader, Esther	Book Review	1447
The Collapse of the Soviet Military.	Peters, Ralph	Book Review	1951
The Fix.	Noah, Timothy	Book Review	2678
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life.	Lemann, Nicholas	Book Review	1915
The Monthly's mission.	Peters, Charles	Brief Article	390
Tilting at windmills: the first four years of the Fiske-Starr inquiry had not been able to lay a glove on Bill or Hillary Clinton.	Peters, Charles	Cover Story	3501
To End a War.	Ricks, Thomas E.	Book Review	1084
Which side are you on?			846