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other magazines: Summaries of what's in Time, Newsweek, etc.

By Anonymous
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1996, at 3:30 AM ET

Time and Newsweek, Aug. 19
(posted Monday, Aug. 12)

Time and Newsweek publish mirror-image Dole/Kemp covers. Both magazines conclude that Kemp--though undisciplined, verbose, and intellectually insecure--will boost the GOP ticket with his optimism and energy. Both magazines profile Dole. Time doesn't find anything new to say: Dole's war injuries made him a loner. Newsweek, always eager for novelty, does: Dole's character owes more to the 1970s (when he really learned politics) than the 1940s. Time writes a history of the conservative movement, while Newsweek fills out its bulkier cover package with articles on Gingrich's failures and GOP moderates' wimpiness, columns on Dole's bad tax proposal and Kemp's problems in California, and a photo gallery of Republicans (conclusion: conservatives are less photogenic than Olympians).

Both magazines gush over the Mars rock. And Time tells the story of a neo-Nazi who gave up white supremacy.

The New Yorker, Aug. 19
(posted Monday, Aug. 12)

The New Yorker seems to be missing a profile of Bob Dole. But its lead comment manages to tie the Mars rock to the presidential election, while a profile of John Wayne by Garry Wills creatively claims that Wayne, who died 17 years ago, will be "the presiding ghost at this week's Republican convention." Also, an article recounts the peculiar case of Abu Marzook, a Hamas leader who was inexplicably jailed by the United States while he was negotiating with American officials. And Susan Sheehan, who last year wrote an excellent article dissecting the personal economy of an average American family, writes an article dissecting the personal economy of an average 12-year-old boy. (Next year: the economy of the average household pet.)

U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 19
(posted Monday, Aug. 12)

U.S. News' cover line: "Bob Dole's Last Mission." A profile of Dole makes the unsurprising case that Dole's greatest asset, as well as his greatest liability, is that he is a throwback to a bygone era. Jack Kemp's selection as vice-presidential candidate is described as a "marriage of convenience"; Elizabeth Dole is portrayed as an "iron fist in a velvet glove." Also, the magazine examines how pornographers are pioneering Internet commerce.

The Nation, Aug. 26/Sept. 2
(posted Monday, Aug. 12)

The Nation runs its second investigative cover in a row on Bob Dole. According to the cover story, Dole interfered with a Senate investigation into allegations that Kansas-based Koch Oil stole $31 million in oil from American Indians and others. Koch owners Charles and David Koch have donated hundreds of thousands to the GOP, conservative think tanks, and Dole's Better America Foundation. Koch Oil could be Dole's Whitewater, The Nation argues. Also, columnists Jill Nelson, Alexander Cockburn, and Katha Pollitt mourn Clinton's signing of the welfare bill.

Economist, Aug. 17
(posted Friday, Aug. 16)

The Economist applies its usual economic determinism to China. The opening editorial and cover story explain why the Middle Kingdom won't necessarily become a destabilizing world bully. Why not? Material prosperity should lead to political liberalization, which should, in turn, pacify China's aggressiveness. Also, the magazine describes the strange peace process in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge may finally be falling apart.

Weekly Standard, Aug. 19
(posted Monday, Aug. 12)

The Standard, which has written endlessly about Bob Dole in recent months, manages to publish a convention issue that barely mentions him. (Also absent: Jack Kemp. The cover depicts 11 Republicans-including such nonluminaries as John Boehner and George Voinovich-but not Kemp, whose selection came after the magazine's deadline.) Otherwise, the San Diego special serves standard Standard fare: Articles hail the supremacy of conservative ideology ("Bill Clinton has become in many ways a more conservative president than Ronald Reagan"); condemn the alleged intolerance of GOP pro-choicers (yes, pro-choicers, not pro-lifers); attack Colin Powell's affirmative-action stance; and welcome the decline of GOP libertarianism. Dole does make a brief appearance in the lead editorial, which advises him to frame his campaign around "money, morality, and manliness."

New Republic, Aug. 19 & 26
(posted Friday, Aug. 2)

For the second time in recent weeks, TNR's most compelling reading is a letters-page brawl about whether the magazine blasphemed Prophet Mohammed. A six-article cover package ("San Diego Zoo") savages Bob Dole's expected tax-cut proposal, mocks his Independence Day endorsement, and gloats about the splintering of the Republicans into irreconcilable factions. Also, Nathan Glazer bemoans America's indifference to urban decay.

Atlantic Monthly, August 1996
(posted Friday, July 26)

After 15 years of stories about Christian fundamentalism, journalists have finally discovered a new religious trend: megachurches. This month's Atlantic publishes the longest, if not the first, article on gigantic, "full-service" Protestant churches (sometimes dubbed "mall churches"). The good news: Megachurches are tolerant, communal, and economically efficient. The bad news: They're killing neighborhood congregations and religious traditions. Also in the Atlantic, yet another essay on why the American people feel alienated from politics; as usual, de Tocqueville, Lincoln, and push polls figure prominently. James Fallows--just named editor of sister publication U.S. News & World Report--writes a nice essay on why girls throw like girls.