Click here for a special offer. Click here for our free newsletter. The scandal in Washington these days isn't the Monica Lewinsky story but the failure of the president and Congress to work together on the people's business. Most of us in the media are so besotted with sexcapades that we can't keep our eye on the main game. Then the White House and Congress jumped into the act and completely botched things up, and the agreement fell apart.
Tobacco continues to sentence more kids to premature death than either cars or guns.
Last week, President Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich proudly unveiled a national advertising campaign directed against teenage drug abuse. It's a welcome step, but everyone knows that it falls desperately short. Three years ago, the president and speaker solemnly shook hands in New Hampshire, promising to clean up the sewage of money in politics. So far, nothing. Even as campaign finance reform is dying this year in Congress, both men are charging around the country, excoriating with one hand and collecting donations with the other.