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On Other Websites: Week of May 14, 2012

  • Scott Lemieux: LBJ and the Bully Pulpit
  • Walter Russell Mead: OWS RIP
  • John T. Kuehn: Professional Military Education Isn't Bad -- But It Isn't Valued by Policymakers
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Let Sleeping Germans Lie
  • Michael Oren: What Happened to Israel's Reputation?
  • Garry Wills: Review of Robert Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • Katherine Stewart: Texas's War on History
  • Michael Barone: Presidential Scenarios ... Will 2012 Be Like 2000, 1988, Or 1964?
  • Michael Lind: Why Do Conservatives Hate Freedom?
  • Duchess Harris: If Being Fat was Ever an Act of Black Resistance, It's Not Any Longer