January 27, 1997

This issue of The Weekly Standard featured David Brock's cover story examining scandalmongering in American politics, alongside Andrew Ferguson's piece on Dick Morris's inadvertent revelations about the Clinton administration. The magazine also presented a symposium on politics and sports with contributions from Fred Barnes, Joseph Epstein, Paul Gigot, Robert Novak, and John Podhoretz, while additional articles covered Walter Cronkite's legacy, William Greider's critiques of the global economy, and Democratic ethics partisan Jim McDermott's role in the Tapegate controversy. The issue reflected on Clinton's second inaugural and the state of American politics in early 1997.