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On Other Websites: Week of May 9, 2011

David Welky: When the Levee Doesn’t Break

George F. Will: History Lessons for Obama and Other Liberals

Anthony Grafton and Jim Grossman: The Imperative of Public Participation

Dominic Sandbrook: President Windsor

Glenn W. LaFantasie: The Foolishness of Civil War Reenactors

Paul R. Pillar: The Forgotten History of the U.S. and Bin Ladin

Jackson Lears: Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris

Yoni Appelbaum: How David Barton Won the Christian Right

Juan Cole: The New Sputnik

Karl Rove: Remembering the First Blow Against al Qaeda