In a passionate essay, former Kennedy aide Richard Goodwin calls for the return of a free-spending, government-growing Democratic Party. He warns that unless Clinton brings the party back to its defining principles--support for the little guy and faith in government--it will collapse. Also, the cover story investigates how Chicago Mayor Richard Daley the Son has changed the city built by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley the Father. And the magazine examines Benjamin Netanyahu's agony over Hebron. If Israel withdraws from the West Bank city, he'll enrage Jewish settlers; if it doesn't, he will jeopardize peace.

The Economist contradicts Goodwin in an opening editorial, asserting that the free-trading, budget-cutting good Bill must snuff the free-spending, government-growing bad Bill. Also, the magazine speculates that a Clinton second term would be "modest." Clinton has run out of "Big Ideas," and unless he discovers the courage to attack entitlements (unlikely), he'll have to settle for incremental reform. (See S LATE's take on why second terms go bad.) Also, a piece on why Americans shouldn't work so hard and a funny essay that compares the royal family to a badly run corporation ("[t]he House of Windsor's mistake was to forget that it was in the head-of-state business").

TNR's Democratic Convention preview tweaks Bill Clinton, but has many kind words for his allies. Articles laud Sen. Christopher Dodd ("the Democrat's public brawler") and tarnished FOBs Harry and Linda Thomason. Special praise is lavished on Indiana governor and convention keynoter Evan Bayh, who the magazine says governs as tough as Clinton talks. Also, the magazine publishes two gloomy assessments of Bosnia's upcoming "unfree and unfair" elections. And the magazine's economics writer advocates that Americans spend $50 billion on a Marshall Plan for cities, $150 billion more on R&D, and $225 billion less on health care.