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Week of May 14, 2012


Up Front



2012's Real Victory Won't Be Obama or Romney: It'll Be the National Security State
William J. Astore


Now It's Obama Who's Our First Gay President!
James Loewen

Polls


News at Home



What Does It Take for a Candidate to be President? Interview with Samuel Popkin
David A. Walsh


Why Did President Nixon Show George Romney the Door as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
Michael H. Ebner


Obama "Evolved" on Same-Sex Marriage -- Lincoln "Evolved" on Slavery
Corey M. Brooks

News Abroad



Why Did the Jewish Daily Forward Interview a Hamas Spokesman?
Daniel Mandel


Mother's Day, 2012, and We're Still at War
Murray Polner


America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill
Tom Engelhardt

Historians & History



Was the Economic Miracle of World War II Fact or Fiction?
Richard Striner


Roosevelt, Hughes, and the Battle over the New Deal: Interview with James Simon
Robin Lindley

Culture Watch



"Elementary": Sherlock Holmes Is Back in a Big Way
Bruce Chadwick


Peter Pan, the Boy Who Never Grew Up, Flies Back to Broadway with the Lost Boys in Tow
Bruce Chadwick

Books


Review of Chase Madar's The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History
Murray Polner


Review of Randal Maurice Jelks's Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Luther Spoehr