December 31, 1990 Issue, THE NATION

- Checkbook Maternity
  Katha Pollitt
  , p. 825
  When Is a Mother Not a Mother?
- Bad Debt Good Debt, p. 825
- Letters, p. 826
- Real Linkage, p. 827
- Sayonara MCA
  Herbert I. Schiller
  , p. 828
- Unease in Egypt
  Stephen Hubbell
  , p. 829
- Why the Hostages Were Freed
  Calvin Trillin
  , p. 829
- Beat the Devil
  Alexander Cockburn
  , pp. 830-831
- Beltway Bandits
  David Corn
  , p. 832
- Watching Rights
  Aryeh Neier
  , p. 833
- Think About the Unthinkable
  William M. Arkin
  , pp. 834-836
  U.S. Nukes in the Gulf
- Money and Democracy
  Bernard D. Nossiter
  , p. 837
  The Myth of an Independent Fed
- Which Way to Stalinallee?
  Miklos Vamos
  , pp. 838-846
- --- by Vivian Gornick, pp. 847-848
- --- by Gabriel Motola, pp. 849-850
- --- by Daniel Harris, p. 851
- Art
  Arthur C. Danto
  , p. 852