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Week of April 9, 2012


Up Front



Editor's Desk: Mad Men Gets Dark. Really Dark.


Vietnam Has Left Town, Say Hello to the New Syndrome on the Block
Tom Engelhardt

Polls


News at Home


"People in the Press are Just as Patriotic" as Everyone Else -- Interview with Anthony Lewis, Part 2
Adam Eisenberg


Romney Still Fails to Make the Sale
Gil Troy


The Founding Fathers Had an Individual Mandate -- to Buy Guns
David A. Walsh


Americans Elect Could Become a Viable Political Party

J. David Gillespie

News Abroad



Power Pivot or Duffer's Divot?: Obama's Asia Policy

Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine


The GOP Doesn't Have a Foreign Policy -- They're Just Against Whatever Obama is For

Steve Hochstadt


It's Not Road Rage -- It's Terrorism

Daniel Pipes


A Small But Solid Victory for Liberal Education at Yale

Jim Sleeper


South Sudan Could Learn From America's War of 1812 on How to Build a Lasting Peace

William Lambers

Culture Watch



Editor's Desk: Should We Preserve Ugly Buildings?


"The Best Man": Does the Convention Always Nominate Him?
Bruce Chadwick


Judy Garland Goes Over the Rainbow in Powerful Play about the Show Biz Legend
Bruce Chadwick

Books



Review of Geoffrey Roberts's Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior
Aaron Leonard


Review of Alasdair Roberts's America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Crisis of 1837
Jim Cullen