Ron Dellums, the angry Berkeley radical of the 1960s, is making a comeback. But he doesn't sound so angry anymore.

Newly chartered cities can outsource almost anything--and some are doing it.

Residents of Los Angeles spend an average of 93 hours stuck in traffic per year, according to the Texas Transportation Institute--by far the highest degree of congestion in any American city. Frustrated drivers who turn to L.A.'s public transportation system--historically something of a joke--don't find the going much smoother, as the feature on p. 44 of this magazine shows.

A new book traces what happens to all our garbage.

States are the main forum for debate on reproductive issues, and the trend is for greater restriction.