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Profiles U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. Defense issues most important to Nunn; Authorship of a resolution calling for the extension of sanctions and against the resolution that would approve the Persian Gulf War; Biographical information; Consideration of Nunn as a presidential contender; Transformation of Nunn into a national Democrat.

Comments on the strategies of U.S. Republicans in their efforts to seize control of Congress and dominate American politics through a scheme known as the Bush realignment. Effects of reapportionment and the retirement of old congressional officers; Emphasis on the plot of the Republicans to take over Congress for two decades citing how they were only able to have six years of Senate control under Ronald Reagan's administration; Proposals relevant to the Voting Rights Act; Indications of politics.

Comments on key issues pertaining to the functions and political actions of the Democratic Leadership Council in the U.S. citing domestic political practice. Mission of the council to remove liberal heresies from office; Reputation and popularity of the council as a coalition of neoliberal intellectuals; Profile on several Democratic politicians, their political ideologies and political programs including Chuck Robb, Bill Clinton, Bill Gray and Dick Gephardt; Indications of politics and government.

This article comments on the political performance of U.S. President George Bush during his first nine months since his term started in January 1989. It discusses his treatment of the coup that threatened to overthrow Manuel Noriega in Panama, his response to an opposition by Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, and his views on bipartisanship and criticism of the Democrats.

Highlights the events during the presidential campaigns and elections in the U.S. Strategies employed by the Democratic Party to target swing voters; Political platforms and profile on several candidates; Criticisms on the strategy of the Democratic Party that has caused them to lose in previous elections citing their inability to secure a natural political base; Results of polls conducted across the country; Indications of American political practice and government.

The article focuses on problems within the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in the United States. The DLC is made up of centrists, not conservatives. The main problem with the DLC is not that its ideology mirrors the Republicans'. It is that its tactics do. The DLC was born in contempt for the decisions of the Democratic Party. When the Progressive Policy Institute, the DLC's new think tank, was founded, its president, Will Marshall, described it as an "analytic guerrilla group." It was built on the model of the Heritage Foundation--not as an honest brokerage for research but as a factory for marketing policy positions arrived at in advance. This year, before pushing its line that the Democratic Party had to reform itself in the DLC's image to recover from a failed presidential campaign--its message after every failed presidential campaign--it got word out in the press that Democrats thankfully no longer sniped among themselves after elections.

The article offers a look at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, in which U.S. President George Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle were formally endorsed. Both candidates assailed the character of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, focusing on his family values. Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, so far, gave the most optimistic view of a Republican victory with an appeal straight from history and the Bible. But Reagan's call for hope was not reciprocated by Bush when he, himself, accused the U.S. Congress of nurturing the paralysis of legislative action.

Comments on the creation of new rules for the U.S. Democratic Party's presidential delegate selection process negotiated by minions of politicians Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson at the national convention last year. Ratification of the rule changes; Implications of the new rules for Democratic nominees in presidential elections; Disadvantages of the new rules.

Comments on key controversies pertaining to the candidacy of Jesse Jackson for the presidential elections in the U.S. Profile on Jackson and his career in politics; Political relations between Jackson and the members of the Democratic Party; Controversies over Jackson's nomination for office; Issues and implications of the candidacy of George Bush; Comparison of the candidates' popularity and chances of getting elected; Indications of American political practice.

Focuses on the political situation of the United States Republican Party. Reduction of the party's seats in the Senate, House, and state legislatures; Comments on the partisan realignment that was supposed to make them the dominant force in American politics; Discussion of the reapportionment that may help the Republican Party to improve their situation.

Comments on United States Republican President George Bush's budget strategy. Agreement between Democrats about restrictions that keep them from launching serious policy alternatives to that of President Bush's domestic policy; Feud between the White House and House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich, who opposed the deal; Chances for Democrats to give momentum and visibility to a domestic issue and improve their political appeal; Possibility for Democrats to get money to fund their programs.

Comments on political developments in the United States as of April 15, 1991. Proposed anti-crime measures from the government of U.S. President George Bush and the Democratic Party; Percentage of readers of "The New Republic" that think that the Bush administration does not have a meaningful domestic policy agenda; Criticism of raids conducted by federal and local agents on fraternity houses at the University of Virginia.

Explains that Republican and Democratic legislators in the United States House are throwing allegations of unethical conduct against each other. Speaker Thomas Foley as target of GOP attacks that hinted at personal impropriety; GOP plans to launch fresh ethics complaints against Democratic members.

The article argues that there is a need to unify the fragmented themes and visions by Republicans in order to launch an effective political campaign for the re-election of U.S. President George Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. This need has risen during the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, where Republican stalwarts Patrick Buchanan, Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson and Phil Gramm seems out of tune with the refreshing keynote speech of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Nonetheless, the four themes that emerged from the convention are peace through strength and experience, economic, social issues such as school choice and crime, and defense of traditional values.

The article refutes mass media in the U.S. for its conspicuous display of biased support of the Democratic Party to the detriment of the Republicans. It should be noted that it is only the Republicans which media used in ideological terms; identifying it in the "far right." And its speakers are lampooned as purveyors of "hate," "divisiveness," and "right-wing." And in their utter disregard of journalistic ethics, reporters are hyping issues that are supposedly damning to the Republicans. Such innuendos, is much more blatant in the issue of homosexuality, as if one is homophobic when alternative views are put forward.

Explores the need for the Democratic Party to remind the public of its principles in the United States in the 1990s. Collapse of the political center of the party in 1980; Mission of the party; Need for the party to demonstrate toughness to govern; Economic, political and social problems of the United States; Identification of the Democratic Party as the country's governing party.

Focuses on key political development in the U.S. Speculations on the cause of the defeat of the Democrats in the White House; Formation of the Democratic Leadership Council; Improvements in national security; Political platforms and ideologies of the Democratic party; Profile on several Democrats and their political ideologies; Foreign policy issues; Caucuses and legislative practice; Indications of American politics and government.

The article comments on the indiscriminatory use of ethics to bash politicians in the United States which they call, skinhead politics. The term captures the angry mood among Republican politicians such as Whip Newt and Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater. In this situation, analysts suggest the President George Bush provide leadership and try to resolve conflicts among politicians.

Explains that United States President George Bush is showing willingness to appease the right wing of the Republican Party (GOP). Nominations of Hannah Atkins and Robert Fulton blackballed by the GOP; White House Chief of Staff John Sununu as Bush's conduit to the right.

Examines how Republican and Democratic candidates are asking U.S. corporations to donate funds just days before the presidential election in November 1996. Amount of money the two parties have exploited through campaign-finance loopholes as of October 1996; Democrats' decision to target most of their efforts at House races where many of the Republican Party's freshmen are behind in the opinion polls; Soft-dollar donations; Role of corporate political action committees in the campaign fund-raising.

Stresses the message of anti-incumbency voters delivered in the results of the November 6, 1991 elections. Republican Kirk Fordice's defeat of incumbent Democrat Ray Mabus in Mississippi; Democrat Harris Wofford's victory over Dick Thornburgh in Pennsylvania; Worries of President George Bush; Bush's call for a cut in capital-gains tax; Republican domestic policy.

The article assesses the initiatives of U.S. President Bill Clinton to unify a Democratic Party that is mired by clashing interests. Clinton used the centrist tactic to dissuade various factions of his party. However, his selection and appointment of public officials in various governmental posts has only exposed the deepening rift. In the economic field, his camp is divided between pro-business types and the redistributionists. In the same vein, Robert Reich's most likely appointment as a White House advisor would see the free-traders clashing with the two faction. In the foreign affairs field, the Carter-Vance veterans would surely clash with the centrists. Finally, neo-conservatives would oppose liberal social experimenters.

The article criticizes the candidacy of Paul Tsongas in the Democratic presidential nomination in the U.S. in 1992. Tsongas blatant lies about his health condition beclouded whatever efforts to project himself as candid. He could have passed as an attractive alternative to some voters despite the absence of political charisma that characterize other Democratic luminaries. But with his recurring cancer, he could end up as a president with more time for a chemotherapy or a surgery than with governing the nation. That is, if he wins the Democratic nomination and defeat George Bush.

The article asserts that the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas has demonstrated the disconnection between a platform drafted by the Republican Party and U.S. President George Bush. Such disconnection was clearly shown by Barbara Bush's displeasure with the platform position on nation television. Another expression of this disconnection was in a speech by the president on taxes, which was not emphasized clearly on. But in the end, these disconnection boil down to Bush himself, who continues to believe he made the right thing in the budget deal, and views conservatism, not as key ingredient in the campaign, but a creed of special interest to be tamed.

The article focuses on the interest of U.S. Democrats in Newt Gingrich, a politician who turned a minority party into a majority party in Congress. Gingrich not only masterminded the first Republican takeover of Congress in 40 years; he also rammed through a wish-list of conservative policies, from a balanced budget to welfare reform. Gingrich is hawking a book--"Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America." A growing number of conservatives regard Gingrich as both an inspiration and an indictment: an inspiration for United States President George W. Bush's second term and an indictment of the Republican establishment. Gingrich has received star treatment from two left-leaning pundits--Michael Crowley in the New Republic and Marshall Wittmann in the Democratic Leadership Council's house magazine, Blueprint. The reason why liberals are suddenly so interested is simple enough: Gingrich was the last person to turn a minority party into a majority party in Congress.

The article refutes a suggestion that the issues raised by the Christian Right in the U.S. are made irrelevant by political realities. Chief among these political realities is the so-called unity of the Republican Party, not within the purview of issues of the religious Right, but by economic and foreign policy issues. This viewpoint is also shared by the "San Francisco Examiner" which details its tirades against the core issues opposed by the political Right, including abortion, homosexuality, denigration of school prayer and evolution studies in schools.

The article asserts that U.S. trial lawyers who amassed wealth from the contingency-fee system are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. Such proposition is borne by a survey by Forbes writer Leslie Spencer in August 31, 1992, which found that quite a number of trial lawyers are supporters of the Democratic Party. For instance, trial lawyers are members of key Democratic fund-raising organizations in Florida and Arkansas. Meanwhile, a Cable News Network-sponsored study by the National Library on Money and Politics found 40% of donations for Bill Clinton's presidential candidacy came from lawyers.

Reports that in the aftermath of the 1990 elections, political parties in the United States have moved on to fighting about the meaning of the election and to preparing for the 1992 elections. Republican Party's hope that it would hold its own in the House and to knock off weak Democratic Party incumbents in the Senate; Republican abandonment of its principles and reliance on buoyant presidential popularity ratings; Need for President George Bush to win back the public's and party's trust by firm leadership.

This article focuses on political developments in the United States. A nation-wide poll, conducted recently, found politician Edward M. Kennedy leading the Democratic field with 26 per cent of the vote among Democrats, followed by Mario Cuomo with 19 per cent, and Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis tied at 15 per cent. The Americans for Democratic Action has released a rating of U.S. congressmen. Two Democrats--Patrick Leahy and Claiborne Pell--have got perfect scores on the rating chart. Further, Ron Brown has been elected as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.