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Offers theories as to why Americans seem ready to re-elect President Bill Clinton in 1996 despite the distrust and ambivalence he arouses in so many voters. View that Clinton has tricked the public; Possibility that Americans are too cynical about politics to care about their officials' moral stature; The solid economy; Clinton as defender of the nation against the Republican Congress; The role of Clinton campaign guru Dick Morris; Other theories.

Explores the reasons for the impression of the majority of people in the U.S. that President Bill Clinton has raised their taxes. Argument that the best measure of the overall tax burden is taxes as a share of gross domestic product; Impact of the Clinton administration budget deal of 1993 on income taxes; Explanation that the total burden of federal taxes on society as a whole since 1980 has remained constant.

Contends that voters together with politicians and the interest groups are to blame for the failure of the U.S. federal government to provide a universal health care to its citizens. Discussion on the health care reform plan of President Bill Clinton; Public opinion on the country's health care system; Stand of Republicans on health care reform; Criticism on the media's coverage of the health care reform debates; Comparison of the U.S. with other industrialized countries in the area of health care.

Suggests that the most significant political story of 1998 is not that United States President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a 22-year-old White House intern, but that most citizens do not seem to care. Observations of Sally Quinn and William Bennett; Why Kenneth Starr's report backfired so badly; Libertarian views; The opposition to impeachment.

Examines the Republican Medicare reform plan introduced by U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich on September 14, 1995. Similarities of the plan with U.S. President Bill Clinton's health care reform plan released in 1994; Provisions of the proposals for managed care; Significance of the plans to Medicare beneficiaries.

Discusses the proposal for eliminating the moral agony of sending U.S. troops to fight in foreign wars. Justification for the use of volunteer troops to participate in foreign wars; Dilemma faced by President Bill Clinton whether to send U.S. ground troops or not to Bosnia in 1994; Types of people who can be recruited as volunteer troops for the war in Bosnia.

Explores several issues related to the Whitewater investigations in the U.S. as of April 18, 1994. Complaints against Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman; Argument of Representative Jim Leach regarding the profit gained by U.S. President Bill Clinton from the Whitewater deal; Information on a bill which repealed state usury laws signed by Clinton while he was still an Arkansas governor.

Offers views on the balanced budget amendment being opposed by the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Details of how Clinton handles the country's budget; Reasons why the administration of Clinton opposes the amendment; Scenarios seen by the administration regarding the balanced budget amendment; Results of polls concerning the constitutional amendment mandating a balanced federal budget.

Opposes the health care reform plan of U.S. President Bill Clinton as of February 14, 1994. Discussion on the concept of utilization review supported by President Clinton and his wife Hillary; Examination on the reform plan of President Clinton would impact on medical research and medical costs; Assertion that the plan will raise the budget deficit.

Examines Republican Senator Phil Gramm's alternative to U.S. President Bill Clinton's health care reform plan. Massive new federal regulation of the insurance and health care industries; Lesser new regulatory burdens on all employers; Tax increase; Massive new government-funded entitlement program; Republicans' criticism against the Clinton plan; Republicans' claim that Clinton wants a one-size-fits-all approach; Additional claim that the Clinton plan will deny people the right to choose their own doctors; Author's analysis of these criticisms.

This article forecasts the troubles faced by the administration of United States President Bill Clinton. Many observers agree that his term is the grimmest start of any presidency in generations. Clinton's trouble is simply that he has begun to address America's problems in the only serious way: by asking the middle class to take a financial hit. The consensus theme about the cause of Clinton's troubles is slightly different, that he has emerged as too left-wing, a traditional tax-and-spend Democrat, not a moderate "New Democrat," as promised in the election campaign. However, this perception is inaccurate since the most left-wing item on Clinton's agenda is his stiff income tax increase on the affluent. This, along with the corporate tax increase, is almost three times the size of his original energy tax proposal.

Comments on the victory of presidential candidate Bill Clinton in the election in the U.S. Discussion of the Democratic Party's victory as a revenge on President George Bush; Failure of Bush as a President; Significance of the defeat of the Republican presidential machine; Statement that Clinton has shown that one can an election without promising never to raise taxes in anyway on anyone.

Comments on the current presidential election campaign in the U.S. with reference to the reasons for voters to choose presidential candidates Bill Clinton over President George Bush in the U.S. Information on the anti-war activities of Clinton; Attack of Bush on Clinton's character; Opposition of Clinton to Vietnam War; Efforts of Clinton to help civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy's poverty elimination campaign.

Focuses on various political plans announced by U.S. President George Bush and presidential candidate Bill Clinton during their campaigns with reference to the response of Clinton on Bush's plans. Promise made by Bush that if elected he will never either cut Medicare or Social Security benefits; Announcement by Bush that he will board tax cut of uncertain size; Assertion of Clinton that Bush's promises add up to a trillion dollars that must be pruned over five years; Accusation of Clinton against Bush that he has made mathematically incompatible promises; Disclosure of a list of 178 taxes and fee increases signed by Bush, by Clinton supporters.

Claims that U.S. President George Bush was wrong in pointing out that his opponent in the presidential elections, Bill Clinton raised taxes 128 times as governor while he only raised tax once as president. Reluctance of journalists to say flat-out that the president is a liar despite the evidence presented; Argument that this is not about taxes but about character and trust; View that this is a test of character not just for Bush but for those around him.

Presents information on the reaction of the U.S. Republican party members to the taxation platform of U.S. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Details of the tax increases approved by Clinton as Governor; Number of tax increases in Clinton's home state Arkansas; Information on the tax devices employed by the government; Background on the law lengthening the season for dog racing.

Discuses the balanced budget amendment in the U.S. Attitudes of several U.S. periodicals towards balanced budget amendments; Proposal put forward by political leader Bill Clinton to divide the federal budget into three parts; Report that the federal government spends about $135 billion a year on physical capital such as roads, buildings, research and education and training; Information on problems associated with capital accounting for the government.

Considers the candidacy of Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton for the U.S. presidency. Discussion of how Democratic Party members in the U.S. feel about their presidential nominee Clinton; Certainty among Clinton supporters that he is lying about his affair with Gennifer Flowers; Details of Clinton's scandals; Clinton's passion about race relations; Comparison between Clinton and his rival George Bush; Financial corruption in the Bush campaign team.

Explains the need to cut middle-class benefit programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, to control the budget deficit without the need to increase taxes in the United States. Impact of the federal budget deficit on the economy of the country; Recession under the presidency of George Bush; Role of increasing savings and investment in improving the economic status of the country; Proposal of presidential candidate Bill Clinton to provide a tax cut to the middle class; Impact of bureaucracy costs on federal spending.

Argues that U.S. President Bill Clinton will face difficulties when he delivers his D-Day speech in June 1994. Criticisms against his avoidance of military service; Comparison of the attitude of the U.S. press towards Clinton and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan; Opinion of Clinton on the moral implications of the Vietnam war.

Comments on issues on the public debate over the allegations of sexual harassment by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones against U.S. President Bill Clinton. Comparison with the allegations of sexual harassment against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by his colleague Anita Hill; Relevance of Jones' story to an assessment of Clinton as a public figure; Public response to Jones' story.

Presents an article about the conflict between U.S. congressional Democrats and Republicans whether to create congressional hearings on political scandals. Comment on the manner in which Republicans handled the Iran-Contra Affair from 1985 to 1990; Evidence of the Republican hypocrisy on the subject of the special prosecutor; Position of President Bill Clinton on the special prosecutor law; Comparison of the implied moral evidence between Whitewater and Iran-Contra.

Discusses the propriety of the meetings between U.S. Treasury and White House officials on the Whitewater real estate investigation implicating President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1996. Depiction of the government investigation by several newspapers; Criticisms against the cases formed against the meetings; Defense raised by Democrats on the purpose of the meetings; Argument against comparing the meetings with that of hearings on the Watergate scandal.

Criticizes columnist and writer David Brock for dishonesty in his exposé alleging a variety of adulteries by U.S. President Bill Clinton while he was governor of Arkansas and continuing through the 1992 election and into 1993. Sources of Brock's stories; Question on the validity of Brock's evidences of President Clinton's marital infidelity; Reaction of President Clinton to allegations of marital infidelity.

Comments on the political aspect of U.S. President Bill Clinton's health care reform plan. Arguments that Clinton's plan will force society to make explicitly, through the political system, decision on health care questions; Clinton's use of a combination of government mandates and enhanced market forces to restrain costs and guarantee access to health care; Clinton's program to address health care rationing issues; Opposition to Clinton's plan.

Examines the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Loss faced by the Democratic party in governorship races in Virginia and New Jersey and the mayor's race in New York City; Benefits of being the president of the country; Competitive nature of Clinton and his desire to succeed; Speculation regarding re-election of Clinton in the 1996 presidential elections.

Focuses on the policy of U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration towards health care. Increase in medical care costs and insurance due to economic factors; Challenges confronting the Clinton administration in implementing social reform initiatives; Health care reform and implications for the president's political leadership; American Medical Association's objection to a bias towards managed care; Compromise on healthcare.

Asserts that U.S. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole is being two-faced when he demands that President Bill Clinton should get prior congressional approval before sending American military forces to Haiti or Bosnia. Provisions of the War Powers Act; Contrast with provisions of the constitution; Validity of Clinton's view on military intervention; Role of the War Powers Act to stop the erosion of congressional authority; Power of the U.S. Congress to declare war.

Criticizes the foreign policy of the United States in which people want the country to get involved in other nations' affairs to show that the U.S. is a superpower but panic and want out at the first hint of casualties. President Bill Clinton as the victim of opinion shifts with regards to the use of American military force; Developments in history which led to the so-called free-lunch foreign policy; Ronald Reagan's defense buildup, paid for with borrowed dollars; Victory in Grenada which created the illusion that military victories can be virtually cost-free; Persian Gulf War.

Comments on the debate over the U.S. government's tax policy favoring small businesses. Opponents' argument that higher taxes on income would not just hit the affluent because small business also pay taxes at personal income tax rates; Proposed incentives for small business under President Bill Clinton's budget bill; Qualification of small business people for Clinton's expanded Earned Income Tax Credit; Argument that there is no reason to suppose small business people deserve or require greater protection from taxation's disincentive effect that people who earn their money in any other way.

Discusses the U.S. budget deficit. Inability of U.S. President Bill Clinton to achieve the goal of cutting the budget deficit by half; Wrong interpretation of budget deficit by Clinton during his presidential campaign; Underestimation of the budget deficit in official figures released by former President George Bush's administration; Complaints of Clinton against budget director Richard Darman's statistical evasions; Proposals given in the shopping catalog "Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options," released by the Congressional Budget Office.

Focuses on the attitude of the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate Bill Clinton regarding the Freedom of Choice Act, a proposed legislation seeking to institutionalize the right to abortion in the U.S. Opportunity for Clinton to appoint liberals to the U.S. Supreme Court; Impact of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade on the legal status of abortion; Effects of the case on conservatives who expanded their activism against abortion rights; Opinion that Clinton favors different forms of government activism and also rejection of some traditional forms; Suggestion for Clinton to work for the passage of the bill.

Assesses the economic problems faced by the President-elect Bill Clinton in the U.S. Reasons why Clinton should not opt for a short-term solution; Amount of the country's budget deficit; Argument among liberals that Clinton should ignore the deficit; Promises made by Clinton during the campaign period with regards to solving the economic problems of the country.

Focuses on the re-election campaign strategy of United States President George Bush. Criticisms made by Bush against opponent Bill Clinton's economic and social policies; Grants provided by Bush for programs on several states; Performance of Bush during his presidency; Comments on a radio advertisement criticizing Bill Clinton's proposed energy tax.

Focuses on the speech delivered by U.S. President George Bush in Enid, Oklahoma. Statement made by Bush in the speech that the tax system of the country was the product of a wartime economy; Support provided by Senator Jim Baker to Bush, in his campaign; Appreciation of Oklahoma Senator Don Nickels on his tax policy, in the speech; Opinion of Bush about presidential candidate Bill Clinton.

Focuses on attacks made by U.S. President George Bush as part of his election campaign against the economic plan announced by rival presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Breakdown of the job losses alleged by the Bush campaign; Defense cuts proposed by Clinton; Health care reform proposal of Clinton; Jobs to be lost due to business tax increases proposed by Clinton; Claim of the Clinton campaign that the allegations made by the Bush campaign lacks basis.

Reports that many conservatives suffer from the basic delusion that U.S. President George Bush betrayed former President Ronald Reagan. Claim that Bush's most recent budget promises $188 billion for addressing the problem of national debt; Comparison of economic programs of both Bush and presidential candidate Bill Clinton to solve the issue of social deficits; Possibility that Bush might rise above politics to reach statesmanship if he is reelected.

Reports on Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton's denial of Republicans' accusation that he is a liberal. Argument pertaining to vision for the U.S. Democratic Party; Failure of Republicans in the 1980s to abolish the pillars of liberalism such as social security, civil rights and Medicare; Ideology of Clinton that Democratic Party should be more moderate; Comparison of Clinton with President George Bush's vision of the government's role in the economy and society; Accusation of Bush against Clinton for being a liberal

Comments on the industrial policy proposed by United States presidential candidate Bill Clinton. General definition of industrial policy; Comparison of Clinton's tax and spend proposal with the capital gains tax policy of President George Bush; Comparison of Clinton and Bush's perception of trade protection; View that Clinton's proposed policy will focus on public infrastructure, education and scientific research; Reasons for the public's skepticism of various industrial policy proposals.

Comments on Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's political character, based on his college-days letter written to Colonel Eugene Holmes of Arkansas Reserve Officers' Training Corps, explaining his opposition to the Vietnamese war. Reflection of Clinton's Rhodes scholar mentality in the letter; Renunciation of Clinton's previous summer's commitment to join the Reserve Officers Training Corps and account of his relationship with Holmes; Discussion on Clinton's chances to become the U.S. President.

Examines the response of Americans to the alleged affair of President Bill Clinton. Americans seen as taking a French view which means they believe a politician should be judged by his public record not his private affairs; Public opinion of the alleged misbehavior.

Commends Matt Drudge for making public the story surrounding President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. `Newsweek' magazine's contemplation about whether the story was firm enought to print; Their decision that it was not, pulling it from print, only to post it on America Online midweek.

Opinion. Expresses bewilderment, as a Clinton supporter of steady enthusiasm, as to the wild shifts in support for President Bill Clinton from liberals. The veering from wild ardor in 1992 to dislike since; Why President Clinton appears not to be destined to enjoy a period of genuine and heartfelt popularity while in office; The liability of Clinton's character, due to the Republican strategy.

Essay by Michael Kinsley concerning allegations in the New York City tabloids `Post' and `Daily News' on Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's past extramarital activities. Hope the 1987-88 Gary Hart episode would clarify the issue: a possible unwritten rule that only ongoing goings-on count; Three questions on this ripe topic: what level of proof is required, should such stories be repressed, are past extramarital affairs relevant; The press in the position of censor; Ultimately the voters decide.

The article discusses sex scandals of several U.S. politicians. Topics include impeachment trial of former U.S. President Bill Clinton; South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford views on dating Argentinean mistress after being married; and affair of Alabama Governor Robert Bentley with his married top aide and facing impeachment at present.