Making Change.

With former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's recent passing, we were reminded of TIE's award-winning cover published during the summer of 1988. Gorbachev is pictured in command of the cash register at a Moscow MacDonald's fast food restaurant.

Inside the issue, articles discussed perestroika, the Jackson-Vanik amendment, and expanded U.S.-Soviet trade. The following year--1989--would bring democratic elections across Eastern Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and German reunification.

And after that, 1990 would bring both the...