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Week of February 1, 2010
Week of January 25, 2010
Week of January 18, 2010
Week of January 11, 2010
Week of January 4, 2010
Week of December 28, 2009
Week of December 21, 2009
Week of December 14, 2009
Week of December 7, 2009
Week of November 30, 2009
Week of November 23, 2009
Week of November 16, 2009
Week of November 9, 2009
Week of November 2, 2009
Week of October 26, 2009
Week of October 19, 2009
Week of October 12, 2009
Week of October 5, 2009
Week of September 28, 2009
Week of September 21, 2009

Week of February 1, 2010

#1 Le Parti The ROBERT ZARETSKY
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122923.html

#2 China and the U.S.: Too Big to Fail JEFFREY WASSERSTROM
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122991.html

#3 An End to the "Long War" ROBERT FARLEY
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122948.html

#4 How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran DANIEL PIPES
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122880.html

#5 Taxing the Rich LAWRENCE WITTNER
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122886.html

#6 Remember Churchill When You Think of Iraq DANIEL FINKELSTEIN
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122910.html

#7 Was US-Iran Rivalry Driving the Exclusion of Candidates in Iraq? JUAN COLE
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122950.html

#8 Julian Zelizer: Americans Want Government Reforms JULIAN ZELIZER
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122932.html

#9 Blair... The Hubris of a Tragic Hero Who Fell for the Enlightenment Myth BRUCE ANDERSON
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122825.html

#10 Haiti Needs to Be Built, Not Rebuilt PETER A. COLCANIS
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122920.html

Posted on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 11:55 AM | Top

Week of January 25, 2010

#1 The Return of Ulysses S. Grant SEAN WILENTZ
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122628.html

#2 We are Still in the Shadow of the Holocaust MICHAEL GOVE
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122556.html

#3 It Wasn't the Devil that Hurt Haiti HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122665.html

#4 Victor Davis Hanson: Our Populist President? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122676.html

#5 India Holds the Keys to Success NIALL FERGUSON
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122679.html

#6 It's the Presidency, Not the President GODFREY HODGSON
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122490.html

#7 Clinton's Shadow Hangs Over Obama's Address WILLIAM MCGURN
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122599.html

#8 The Real Jimmy Carter BETTY GLAD
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122495.html

#9 Obama's State of the Union Inspiration: Ronald Reagan AARON ZELINKSY
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122690.html

#10 Is It Fair to Blame Blair and Bush for Continued Violence in Iraq? MICHAEL WHITE
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122601.html

Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM | Top

Week of January 18, 2010

#1 China's Year of Anniversaries GEREMIE R. BARME
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122407.html

#2 Obama the Professional ERIC FONER
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122382.html

#3 Why Can't America Win Wars? ANDREW J. BACEVICH
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122254.html

#4 Following in JFK's Footsteps DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122453.html

#5 Our Philosopher-King Obama VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122425.html

#6 America is Failing Haiti - Again PATRICK COCKBURN
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122256.html

#7 The Myth of Republican Discipline JULIAN ZELIZER
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122381.html

#8 Did Obama Win the Iraq War? JUAN COLE
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122451.html

#9 Why There Can't Be a Nixon-to-China Moment in Tehran MICHAEL SINGH
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122255.html

#10 The Well of Soviet Nostalgia Is Running Dry FYODOR LUKYANOV
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122370.html

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM | Top

Week of January 11, 2010

#1 Juan Cole: The Televangelist Misuse of Haiti's History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122171.html

#2 Julian Zelizer: It's the Institutions, Stupid!
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122150.html

#3 Victor Davis Hanson: 2010: Our Year of Decision
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122208.html

#4 Michael L. Galaty: Afghanistan is not Vietnam - but it is a lot like 1940s Albania
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122096.html

#5 Dilip Hiro: Iran, 1979 and 2010
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122122

#6 Eliot A. Cohen: Taking the Measure of Obama's Foreign Policy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122048.html

#7 James Fallows: How America Can Rise Again
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122203.html

#8 Frederick Kagan and Christopher Harnisch: How to Apply 'Smart Power' in Yemen
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122193.html

#9 Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama Should Go to Haiti
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122212.html

#10 Ron Radosh on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/122164.html

Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 8:04 PM | Top

Week of January 4, 2010

#1 David Greenberg: The Honeymooners
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121937.html

#2 HNN: In those retrospectives of the past 10 years the media largely overlooked historians
ttp://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121934.html

#3 Thomas Fleming: Prohibition: A Cautionary Tale
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121852.html

#4 Jeffrey Lord: The War of the Presidents ... Reagan Battles Obama in 2010
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121922.html

#5 Jeremy Warner: We forget the lessons of the past at our peril
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121771.html

#6 Paul Kennedy: A Trainspotter's Guide to the Future of the World
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121882.html

#7 John B. Judis: Barack Obama, You Remind Me of Herbert Hoover
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121900.html

#8 Julian E. Zelizer: Blame Game Won't Stop Terrorism
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121828.html

#9 Walter Russell Mead: Obama's Carter Syndrome
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121840.html

#10 Daniel Martin Varisco: Grinding a Greater Axis of Evil
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121685.html

Posted on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Top

Week of December 28, 2009

#1 Niall Ferguson: The decade the world tilted east
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121675.html

#2 George Walden: Before Preaching, Remember the Opium Wars
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121721.html

#3 Paul Kennedy: Rome offers Obama a lesson in limits
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121723.html

#4 Daniel Pipes & Wafa Sultan: Moderate Islam: Western Ally or Western Myth
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#121687

#5 Daniel Laskin: Jimmy Carter and the Politics of
Apology http://hnn.us/roundup/12.html#121688

#6 David Swanson: An Avatar Awakening
http://hnn.us/roundup/58.html#121686

#7 Juan Cole: Top Ten Middle East Crises,2009
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121693.html

#8 Martin Wolf: How the noughties were a hinge of history
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#121611

#9 Victor Davis Hanson: The Origins of Obamism
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#121719

#10 Jordan Michael: What the Soviets Learned in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#121633

Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 9:59 PM | Top

Week of December 21, 2009

#1 Victor Davis Hanson: Obama and the Malleability of History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121484.html

#2 Jonathan Zimmerman: New war on Christmas? Not so new after all
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121614.html

#3 Alex Tallarida: RN, A Man Before His Time On Healthcare
http://hnn.us/roundup/12.html#121512

4 Cristian Segura: China's Rehabilitation of Chiang Kai-shek
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121562.html

5 Juan Cole: Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121580.html

6 Edwin Black: Mesopotamia: Robbing the Cradle
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121529.html

7 Jordan Michael Smith: How Panama Invasion Paved the Way for Iraq
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#121534

8 Nikolas K. Gvosdev: A Bismarckian Approach for U.S.
http://hnn.us/roundup/12.html#121535

9 Michael Meyer: Death of Ceausescu, 20 Years On
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#121563

10 Maziar Bahari: The Legacy of the People's Ayatollah
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121583.html

Posted on Friday, December 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM | Top

Week of December 14, 2009

#1 Abbas Milani: The Great Satan Myth (Iran/Mossadegh)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121350.html

#2 Max Blumenthal: Obama, The Fallen Messiah and The Problem With Secular Salvation Narratives
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121441.html

#3 Scott Lemieux: Presidential Reputation
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121310.html

#4 Lawrence of Arabia offers lessons for Afghanistan (Deutsche Welle interview with John Hulsman)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121394.html

#5 Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova: How to Avoid the Soviet Mistakes in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121362.html

#6 Arthur Herman: The 35-Year War on the CIA
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121417.html

#7 Victor Davis Hanson: Are We to Be Led in War by a "Tiger" or a Kitten?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121379.html

#8 John McAdams: Another "Unspeakably Awful" Book About the JFK Assassination
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121328.html

#9 Daniel Martin Varisco: More Than Just (a) War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121302.html

#10 James Castagnera: "Invictus" as history
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121344.html

Posted on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM | Top

Week of December 7, 2009

#1 John Prados: Beware Presidents' Use of History http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121282.html

#2 Stanley Kutler: Financial Oversight: We're Still Waiting, Mr. President
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121201.html

#3 William R. Gruver: Why Clausewitz would not be happy with Obama's new Afghanistan strategy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121228.html

#4 John Milton Cooper: Obama's Wilsonian Moment
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121265.html

#5 Daniel Pipes: Swiss Minarets and European Islam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121216.html

#6 Fareed Zakaria: The Post-Imperial Presidency
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121043.html

#7 Thomas Palaima and Stephen Sonnenberg: Our wounds, our duty
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121182.html

#8 Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121213.html

#9 James Rubin: The Decline of Human Rights in Age of Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121102.html

#10 Lawrence Korb: Paying for Our Wars
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121214.html

Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM | Top

Week of November 30, 2009

#1 Damon Linker: Against Common Sense
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120843.html

#2 Andrew J. Bacevich: Obama's folly
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120927.html

#3 Niall Ferguson: An Empire at Risk
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120764.html

#4 Alonzo Hamby: Afghanistan and the public opinion polls
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120732.html

#5 Gary Leupp: It's Obama's War Now
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120917.html

#6 Juan Cole: Obama's surge: Has the president been misled by the Iraq analogy?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120916.html

#7 Robert Kagan: Obama's lonely decision
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120874.html

#8 Elizabeth D. Samet: A Lonely Kind of Courage The view from within Eisenhower Hall at West Point
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120896.html

#9 John B. Judis: Sorry, but I Hear Echoes of Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120895.html

#10 Jacob Weisberg: Obama is having the best first year of any president since Franklin Roosevelt
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120694.html

Posted on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 3:33 PM | Top

Week of November 23, 2009

#1 Barron H. Lerner: Did Franklin D. Roosevelt actually die from cancer?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120498.html

#2 Jeffrey Herf: Hate Radio, a Review of 'Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11'
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120446.html

#3 Stanley Kutler: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120516.html

#4 George Will: Obama ... The First 'Pacific President'?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120543.html

#5 Daniel Pipes: Islamism 2.0
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120525.html

#6 Joshua Brown: LBJ also promised to get the job done (illustration)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120635.html

#7 Mark Bauerlein: Who (or What) Killed JFK?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120520.html

#8 Bennett Ramberg: The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan Through CIA Eyes: Lessons for the United States Today
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120526.html

#9 Ray McGovern: McChrystal Testing the Limits
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120518.html

#10 Allan Gerson: Lessons From Nuremberg
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120417.html

Posted on Friday, November 27, 2009 at 1:21 AM | Top

Week of November 16, 2009

#1 Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick: The End of Chimerica
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120055.html

#2 Kishore Mahbubani: America's Conflicting Destinies
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120232.html

#3 Jim Sleeper: Stanley McChrystal's War on Poverty
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120220.html

#4 Richard Williams: 47 Years after Housing Anti-discrimination Bill ... Where Do We Stand Today?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120219.html

#5 Gordon M. Goldstein: Vietnam, Afghanistan and learning from history
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119968.html

#6 HDS Greenway: Why couldn't the Vietnamese act more like Americans? Now we hear the same refrain for Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120129.html

#7 Drake Bennett: Did we learn the wrong lessons from the fall of the Berlin Wall?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120074.html

#8 Ray McGovern: Afghan Lessons From the Iraq War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120199.html

#9 Kristen Breitweiser: Justice American Style
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120158.html

#10 Hussein Ibish: Plaestine, between a rock and a hard place
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120102.html

Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM | Top

Week of November 9, 2009

#1 Niall Ferguson: 1979 Trumps 1989 in Significance
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119583.html

#2 Walter Isaacson: How Einstein Divided America's Jews
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119762.html

#3 Gil Troy: Reagan and the 80s Deserve More Courses
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119668.html

#4 Michael Barone: History is calling ... Will Obama answer?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119839.html

#5 Michael Crowley: The Reinvention of Robert Gates
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119666.html

#6 Daniel Pipes: Sudden Jihad or "Inordinate Stress" at Ft. Hood?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119645.html

#7 Timothy Garton Ash: 1989 changed the world. But where now for Europe?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119602.html

#8 Jonathan Zimmerman : Fort Hood: What the right and the left have gotten wrong about Hasan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119581.html

#9 Fouad Ajami: From Berlin to Baghdad
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119729.html

#10 WSJ Editorial: From Truman to Reagan, the benefits of moral clarity
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119626.html

Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 at 10:45 AM | Top

Week of November 2, 2009

#1 Max Holland: Richard Nixon's Own Deep Throat
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119423.html

#2 Historians assess Obama's presidency, one year after his election
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119504.html

#3 Mikhail Gorbachev: World no fairer 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119233.html

#4 Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Some Expo-Disney Connections
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119458.html

#5 Jon Wiener: Berlin, Israel, Mexico: Walls Across the World
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119327.html

#6 Robert Nedelkoff: The Last Of The Watergate Cubans Speaks
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119288.html

#7 Russ Baker: What Obama Is Up Against
http://www.hnn.us/roundup/entries/119356.html

#8 Nick Turse: The Pentagon's Building Boom in Afghanistan Indicates a Long War Ahead
http://www.hnn.us/roundup/entries/119481.html

#9 Stuart Koehl: The Byzantine Doctrine ... What the U.S. could learn from the foreign policy of the Byzantine Empire
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119420.html

#10 Stanley Kutler: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119456.html

Posted on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM | Top

Week of October 26, 2009

#1 Jack Shafer: A Real War on the Press ...What FDR could teach Obama about battling Fox News
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119050.html

#2 Robert Merry: James K. Polk could offer military advice to Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119138.html

#3 Victor Davis Hanson: Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119132.html

#4 David Ignatius: History's Road to Waziristan http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118937.html

#5 Josh Gerstein: What if George W. Bush had done that? http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119087.html

#6 Julian E. Zelizer: Running the Senate ain't easy http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119159.html

#7 Nick Turse: Obama's Choice, Failed War President or the Prince of Peace? http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118888.html

#8 Marty Peretz: Killing Kazstner. Killing Who? http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119116.html

#9 Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118929.html

#10 Daniel Pipes: Turkey: An Ally No More http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119081.html

Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM | Top

Week of October 19, 2009

#1 Bob Woodward and Gordon M. Goldstein: The Anguish of Decision ... Lessons of Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118651.html

#2 Max Boot: The Incurable Vietnam Syndrome
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118767.html

#3 Thomas Frank: From John Birchers to Birthers
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118779.html

#4 Thaddeus Russell: Why Liberals Kill
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118775.html

#5 Norman Solomon: Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118776.html

#6 Daniel Pipes: CAIR's Inner Workings Exposed
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118570.html

#7 Richard Lourie: Ghosts of Soviet Past Haunt Russia
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118732.html

#8 Victoria Khromova: Russia has changed. It is now open about the Stalin era
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118800.html

#9 Jon Meacham: The Obama-Dubya Connection
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118603.html

#10 Zachary Roth: Meet The Writer GOP Used To Buff Party's Image
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118540.html

Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM | Top

#1 David Greenberg: Forget about McChrystal; Obama's real problem is MacArthurism
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#118371

#2 Dagobert L. Brito and Michael D. Intriligator: For a Solution in Afghanistan, Look South...and In the Past
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118464.html

#3 David Cesarani: Stephen Fry's Auschwitz blunder: history is too serious a matter to be left to comedians and politicians
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#118400

#4 Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Michelle's Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118292.html

#5 Lewis Sorley: The Real Afghan Lessons From Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118298.html

#6 Matt Welch: 1989 ... Ignoring the Most Liberating Moment in History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118324.html

#7 Richard Bennet: Somalia ... How Not to Win in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118379.html

#8 Julian E. Zelizer: When Nobel Prize rewarded failure
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118308.html

#9 Charles Krauthammer: On the loss of American hegemony
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118297.html

#10 Zachary Karabell: Deficits and the Chinese Challenge
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118352.html

Posted on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 12:16 PM | Top

Week of October 5, 2009

#1 Sam Wineburg & Jack Schneider: Why Benjamin Bloom Got it Wrong When it Comes to History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117934.html

#2 Simon Tisdall: Obama's Kennedy moment on Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117920.html

#3 Jed Babbin: Lyndon Baines Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117929.html

#4 Peter Beinart: Bury the Vietnam Analogy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118017.html

#5 Ron Radosh: McChrystal vs. Obama: Is This Another MacArthur vs. Truman?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118067.html

#6 William R. Polk: An Open Letter to President Obama: Analysis and Poposals on Afghanistan and Pakistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117909.html

#7 Moshe Dann: Every time someone writes, speaks of 'Palestinians' a myth is reinforced
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117764.html

#8 China: Reshooting History in 'Founding of a Republic'
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118063.html

#9 Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam: What Really Happened in Rwanda?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118057.html

#10 Robert Nedelkoff: The Statue of Mao In Yorba Linda
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117872.html

Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM | Top

Week of September 28, 2009

#1 E.D. Hirsch Jr.: How Schools Fail Democracy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117618.html

#2 Daniel Pipes: Netanyahu's Quiet Success
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117641.html

#3 Steve Coll: Gorbachev Was Right About Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117699.html

#4 Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Two Decades After the Fall: Patterns of Chinese Protest--1919,1989, 2009
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117693.html

#5 Jonathan Tremblay: A Wal-Mart being built on a Civil War battleground?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117556.html

#6 Andrew J. Enterline and Joseph Magagnoli: Counterinsurgency Wars do succeed
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117456.html

#7 Mary L. Dudziak: To Whom is a Drone Loyal?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117648.html

#8 Michael Lind: The end of the Pax Americana?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117590.html

#9 John Lee: Why China's 60th birthday is nothing to celebrate
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117591.html

#10 Patrick Martin: A hostile takeover of Zionism
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117683.html

Posted on Friday, October 2, 2009 at 1:44 PM | Top

Week of September 21, 2009

#1 P.D. Smith: Russia's Doomsday Machine was real
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117390.html

#2 Daniel Pipes: Peace Process or War Process?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117243.html

#3 Kim Phillips-Fein: Is the conservative movement dead?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117380.html

#4 John Steele Gordon: Don't Bet Against New York
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117147.html

#5 John Yoo: Obama Risks National Security Disasters of '70s
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117223.html

#6 Victor Davis Hanson: Barack Obama, College Administrator
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117385.html

#7 Juan Cole: Does Iran want to be a pariah?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117289.html

#8 Taylor Marsh: The WJC Tapes and Beyond
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117310.html

#9 Stephen Mihm: Why capitalism fails: The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117350.html

#10 William Burr: Intelligence and the Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117305.html