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The article focuses on the author's views on the lawsuit involving Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff and national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Libby had been accused and convicted of lying about disclosing the identity of an undercover agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The author says that Libby's trials was confusing as the charges filed against him were not proved properly.

The article offers information related to 2020 U.S. presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election held on November 3, 2020, voters selected presidential electors of the Electoral College who in turn will vote on December 14 to elect the new president and vice president.

An editorial is presented on the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election including the secret of Trump operatives and Russian oligarchs, the lifting of the economic sanctions for Russia imposed by former president Barack Obama and the pro-Russian foreign policy of Trump.

The author argues that some U.S. citizens are too complacent regarding their inalienable rights and privacy, and mentions the 2013 release of classified documents related to the U.S. telecommunications data gathering program by former U.S. National Security Agency employee Edward J. Snowden. National security, government secrecy, and the legal procedure for the government to read private e-mails or listen to telephone conversations are discussed.

The author discusses sharing of profits in the residents of the U.S. and proposes to impose a tax officially called a user fee or unofficially window tax for rents, for height of each unit and theater seats and informs about allowance of similar fees in other contexts like storm water management.

WHAT'S it like to watch your own experience turn up as grand opera: in my case, finding my reporting about Nixon in China suddenly evoked by the Metropolitan Opera's production of John Adams's ''Nixon in China''? Very weird. I kept imagining myself onstage in the prepositioned press crowd as Air Force One dropped from the sky in Beijing. And there I was again among the toasters clinking glasses that night at Chou En-lai's banquet for the president. Weirder still was my realization that one of the main characters in the opera was still living -- and surely sulking -- just a mile across town. That's because the Henry A. Kissinger I know from years of professional contact is just a wee bit more fascinating and complicated than the lecherous lackey of landlords who drags his namesake through the muck in the Met's drama. He sings: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the failure of 'The New York Times' newspaper to depict Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jews of Europe.

Relates the impact of the terrorist attacks on New York, New York in September 11, 2001 on city residents.

Presents information on judges. Characteristics of judges; What requires lawyers to invoke a confusing quilt of rulings and phrases and footnotes from past cases.

Discusses the playing of Piet Mondrian at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Mondrian's artistic ability; Evaluation of Mondrian's style; More on art.

Presents information on the camera's contribution to the O.J. Simpson trial. Details on the case; Further information.

Looks back at the first issue of `The New York Times,' which was published on August 1896. Whether the newspaper lived up to Adolph S. Ochs' earnest aim to concisely, clearly, promptly and impartially give the news; What was in some of the articles.

Reports on the competition between television network giants Gerald Levin of Time Warner and Ted Turner of CNN and Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation. Competition between Time Warner and News Corp. for control of cables in homes; What rapid resisters of Government regulation are maneuvering for.

Questions the profound measures the media in the United States would take to uncover the private lives of politicians. Perplexity of the issue of prying into the private lives of politicians; Reference made to the Dick Morris sex scandal.

Comments on the need to restrain campaign financing for public offices in the United States. Costs of being elected in a public office; Sources of political contributions; Avenues of public redress.

Discusses how Ted Turner encouraged the United States government to give him permission to open a Cable News Network (CNN) bureau in Havana, Cuba. How the Helms-Burton law affects American news organizations that may operate in Cuba; Media's reaction towards the operation of CNN in Cuba; Details on the Helms-Burton law.

Focuses on campaign finance in the United States. Speculations surrounding how some candidates receive funds; Strategies used by some candidates during the 1996 elections; Reference made to the campaign finance reform proposed by American President Bill Clinton.

Focuses on George Stephanopoulos' transformation from partisan pitchman to television journalist. Comparison of Stephanopoulos to other politicians; ABC News' announcement of the hiring of Stephanopoulos; Television programs that Stephanopoulos will appear on.

Opinion. Analyses the performance of the stock markets in the United States in 1996, with focus on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Detailed information analysis of the Dow throughout 1996; How investors reacted to the Dow's performance; Comments from investors.

Discusses the inaccuracy of the electoral polls in the United States for 1996. Details on the presidential elections; Factors that impacted on the poll results of United States President Bill Clinton; Incorrect poll results for Bob Dole; Information on polling errors.

Opinion. Focuses on the issue of campaign finance reform in the United States. Reference to the Watergate scandals; United States Supreme Court's move to sanction the free flow of money to the allegedly independent expenditures of political parties.