January 19, 1998

This issue of The Weekly Standard confronted abortion as a persistent political issue heading into the 2000 presidential race, with Fred Barnes and William Kristol examining "Partial Birth" politics and the argument that Roe v. Wade must go. The magazine also covered international affairs, including Edward G. Shirley's analysis of warming U.S.-Iran relations under President Khatami and John R. Bolton's call for confronting Saddam Hussein over Iraq, while cultural pieces explored middlebrow fiction, the papacy, advertising history, and reflected on the death of entertainer Sonny Bono.