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On Other Websites: Week of August 27, 2012

  • Julian Zelizer: What GOP Needs To Do in Tampa
  • Estelle B. Freedman: Women’s Long Battle to Define Rape
  • Arthur Herman: Neil Armstrong’s America
  • Robert S. McElvaine: Has Obama Made the Job Situation Worse?
  • Nicole Gelinas: New Orleans Owes George W. Bush
  • Jennifer Tucker: The Medieval Roots of Todd Akin’s Theories
  • Robert O. Self: The Antisocial Contract
  • Stephen Platt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China's Long History of Defying the Doomsayers
  • Jacob Heilbrunn: Will Romney Discover His Inner Nixon?
  • Stephen Bates: Republican Religious Fundamentalists Would Rewrite American History