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The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. In a television address, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon claimed the deployment of U.S. troops in Cambodia will allow the withdrawal of some troops from Vietnam. Members of teachers' unions in New York and New Jersey were sentenced to jail for participation in strikes. Marvin Mandel, governor of Maryland, vetoed legislation to remove restrictions on abortion.

The article presents political news briefs for the week of June 1, 1963. The author offers a critique of the administration of United States president John F. Kennedy, focusing on political liberals who criticize the president. The author reports on the activities of the National Education Association's involvement with a teacher's strike in Little Lake, California.

Presents letters to the editor in response to the article "Conflict in a Counterfeit Community," by Marvin Hoffman in the November 9, 1968 issue of "The New Republic."

Focuses on the settlement of the marathon teacher's strike in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Report that the shutdown caused only slight disruption in the rhythms of city life and hardly any of the people responsible for settling the strike were directly affected by it; Report that about 30 percent of Philadelphia's 13,000 teachers live in the suburbs where public schools remained open throughout the strike; View that public education's shrinking constituency of influential whites is a fact of life in most big cities, which may help to explain why the strike talks dragged on so long; View that the strike helped to rescue the debt-ridden school system from insolvency; Report that public schools in places like Philadelphia serve mostly people who are poor and black and when they shut down, nonpublic school people decide its fate.