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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 September 14, 2009
Week of September 7, 2009
Week of August 31, 2009
Week of August 24, 2009
Week of August 17, 2009
Week of August 10, 2009
Week of August 3, 2009
Week of July 27, 2009
Week of July 20, 2009
Week of July 13, 2009
Week of July 6, 2009

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 Stephanie Coontz: 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

Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM | Top

Week of September 14, 2009

#1 Max Blumenthal: The history of modern conservatism starts with R.J. Rushdoony
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116982.html

#2 Warren Breckman: Canadians faced a hard fight for national health insurance too
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117033.html

#3 Nicholas Thompson: Did Henry Kissinger Really Plan ‘An Accident’ for Bud Zumwalt?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116896.html

#4 Alexander Zaitchik: Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117030.html

#5 Richard Dreyfuss: We must resume teaching civics
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117022.html

#6 Max Boot: The Goldstone Report
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117038.html

#7 Daniel Pipes: One Cheer for Obama's Foreign Policy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117007.html

#8 Juan Cole: Is Afghanistan Vietnam or Iraq? Arguing with Obama and Rubin
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/117024.html

#9 Michael Crowley: Why is Obama repeating Bush's Iraq mistakes...in Afghanistan?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116958.html

#10 Diane Ravitch: Critical thinking? You need knowledge
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116984.html

Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM | Top

Week of September 7, 2009

#1 Naomi Klein: Durban was a critical turning point in reparations debate
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116443.html

#2 Colin Gordon: We’ve Been Here Before ... History and Health Reform
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116549.html

#3 Norman Podhoretz : Why Are Jews Liberals?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116672.html

#4 Stephen G. Rademaker: Barack Obama As Charlie Wilson?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116507.html

#5 Christopher Hayes: Overcoming America's Debt Overhang ... The Case for Inflation
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116663.html

#6 Victor Davis Hanson: Whining Will Get You Nowhere
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116517.html

#7 Robert Parry: Ronald Reagan's Torture
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116650.html

#8 Adam Holland: Buchanan: Churchill caused World War II, fall of western civilization
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116580.html

#9 Controversial exhibition explores WWII in the developing world
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116636.html

#10 Benjamin Schwarz: What the histories of the Depression era tell us about middle-class families in crisis, both then and now
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116702.html

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM | Top

Week of August 31, 2009

#1 Michael Lind: Can Obama give 'em hell before it's too late?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116351.html

#2 Jonathan Dresner: Soft and Fuzzy Historic Events (Japan's Election)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116176.html

#3 Max Boot: British History No Guide in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116345.html

#4 Jonathan Steele: The Afghan 8os are back
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116205.html

#5 Andrew Leonard: Herbert Hoover: The working man's hero
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116105.html

#6 Max Blumenthal: Ike’s Other Warning
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116335.html

#7 Claire B. Potter (AKA: Tenured Radical): Plagiarist Barbie?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116296.html

#8 Robert S. McElvaine: When Will GOP Leaders Denounce the Pyromaniacs?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116346.html

#9 Shaun Walker: Russia and Poland clash over who was to blame for the war
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116277.html

#10 Juan Cole: McChrystal Advises Escalation of Aghan War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116261.html

Posted on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM | Top

Week of August 24, 2009

#1 “There Must Be a Reason”: Osama, Saddam, and Inferred Justification
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115945.html

#2 Frederick W. Kagan: We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115955.html

#3 Dean Baker: Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115935.html

#4 Sean Wilentz: Triumph And Tragedy ... The Seesaw Life Of Edward M. Kennedy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115950.html

#5 Juan Cole: Palestinians Plan State, but Will Netanyahu Block it?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115961.html

#6 Julian E. Zelizer: Ted Kennedy was a true believer
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115931.html

#7 Catherine Merridale: Stalin's Ghost in Russia
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115711.html

#8 Richard Pipes: Pride and Power, Russia caught between continents and haunted by its past
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115759.html

#9 Humberto Fontova: Looking the Other Way on Castro
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115991.html

#10 Michael Goldfarb: Americans and the lessons of Europe's history with terrorism
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115949.html

Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 8:54 AM | Top

Week of August 17, 2009

#1 Rick Perlstein: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115300.html

#2 Daniel Pipes: Counterterrorism in Obama's Washington
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115605.html

#3 Juan Cole: Obama Defends Afghanistan War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115570.html

#4 Martin Kramer: Fear-mongering at Yale
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115610.html

#5 Larry Allen Brown: A Rebuttal to Dick Armey's OpEd in the Wall Street Journal
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/114776.html

#6 Richard Cohen: Sarah Palin ... a Modern Day McCarthy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115548.html

#7 Jonathan Steele: History is much too important to be left to politicians
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115619.html

#8 Gregory McNamee: The Death of Federico Garcia Lorca (Time for Spain to Face History)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115587.html

#9 Roger Simon: The birth of political television
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115671.html

#10 Simon Jenkins: Today's Afghan election is a moment of truth for zealous liberal aggressors
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115647.html

Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM | Top

Week of August 10, 2009

#1 Ronald and Allis Radosh: What Harry could teach O about Israel
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112413.html

#2 Sara Robinson: Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112391.html

#3 Victor Sebestyen: How not to end a war in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/113714.html

#4 Victor Davis Hanson: Angry rich liberals
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112767.html

#5 John Dean: Looking for Great "Big History" Books
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112758.html

#6 Maurice Isserman: 3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of Memory
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112517.html

#7 Barry Rubin: Obama Administration Says ... Hooray for Jihad
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112770.html

#8 Niall Ferguson: A runaway deficit may soon test Obama’s luck
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/112988.html

#9 Jefferson Flanders: Birthers, Truthers, and Buffs: The Paranoid Style
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/113243.html

#10 Bill Emmott: The recovery will prove Thatcherism right
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/113716.html

Posted on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 10:14 AM | Top

Week of August 3, 2009

#1 Lisa Levenstein: A Phila. hospital that was a model of care
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/110693.html

#2 C. B. Liddell: Hammer (and Sickle) Time for Japan?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/110352.html

#3 Juan Cole: Iran ... Beware Neocons Bearing Boycotts
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/110479.html

#4 Fouad Ajami: Autocracy and the Decline of the Arabs h
ttp://hnn.us/roundup/entries/110353.html

#5 Robert F. Turner: How the Vietnam War Started
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/109257.html

#6 Stanton Peele: LBJ Makes A Comeback
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/108641.html

#7 Barbara F. Walter: History shows it's too soon to leave
Iraq http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/109699.html

#8 Tom Engelhardt: As another August 6th approaches
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/110300.html

#9 Edwin Black: Cash for Clunkers—A Historic Mistake
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/109915.html

#10 Priya Satia: Brilliant insights that led us astray in Iraq
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/110311.html

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 at 4:17 PM | Top

Week of July 27, 2009

#1 Race, Politics, And Obama: Scholars Respond To Sean Wilentz's 'Who Lincoln Was'--And Wilentz Strikes Back
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107795.html

#2 Miriam Pawel: The study of history demands nuanced thinking
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107517.html

#3 William R. Polk: Waiting for the Obama We Elected
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107089.html

#4 Jonathan Zimmerman: The Gates cop, in perspective
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107098.html

#5 Dick Morris: Obama's Dwindling Power
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106084.html

#6 Timothy B. Weston: A Cultural Symbol Passes from the Scene: Ji Xianlin, Not Michael Jackson
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106073.html

#7 Juan Cole: Empire's Paranoia About the Pashtuns
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107097.html

#8 Dick Polman: Why Obama can't pull an LBJ
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106311.html

#9 Eliot Spitzer: In Sickness and in Wealth
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107161.html

#10 James Millward: The Urumchi Unrest Revisited
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107521.html

#11 Julian Zelizer: How presidents work Congress
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107143.html

Posted on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 8:48 PM | Top

Week of July 20, 2009

#1 Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about his arrest and the outrage of racial profiling in America.
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/105348.html

#2 Allen C. Guelzo : Should blacks get reparations?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/101970.html

#3 Houston Baker: The myth of the post-racial United States
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/105406.html

#4 Peter Bergen: Afghanistan is not Obama's Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/102550.html

#5 Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Skip Gates and the Post-Racial Project
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/105450.html

#6 Victor Davis Hanson: Presidents Aren't What They Used to Be
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/102056.html

#7 Frank Gannon: Historians And Partisans
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/105323.html

#8 William Greider: Dismantling the Temple
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/105131.html

#9 Julian E. Zelizer: Let's keep an eye on the spies
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/105405.html

#10 Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Museums and the Contested Memory of the Korean War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/104609.html

Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM | Top

Week of July 13, 2009

#1 Michael J. Petrilli: Sarah Palin, anti-intellectualism, and the plight of the liberal arts
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/101539.html

#2 Stanley Kutler: What Will History Make of Colin Powell?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/100056.html

#3 Huw Davies: Will history repeat itself in Afghanistan?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/101236.html

#4 Rick Perlstein: Why the GOP is falling out of love with gun-toting, churchgoing, working-class whites
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/101185.html

#5 Eleanor Clift: Obama's LBJ Moment
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/99190.html

#6 Tom Palaima: The captivation of those who can offer diversion
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/100058.html

#7 Michael T. Klare: Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/101030.html

#8 Clifford D. May: Iraq ... An American victory
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/100948.html

#9 Juan Cole: Conservative Hypocrisy on Race & Sotomayor
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/101241.html

#10 Michael Lind: History shows that piecemeal reform is better than a Big Bang
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/100808.html

Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 12:44 PM | Top

Week of July 6, 2009

#1 Michael Lind: All sides blame McNamara for Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/97679.html

#2 Marc Ambinder: Robert McNamara, Voltaire's Bastards And Barack Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/98260.html

#3 Daniel Pipes: Limping away from a Shattered Iraq
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/97942.html

#4 David N. Gibbs: Was Kosovo the Good War?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/98164.html

#5 Michael Schwartz: Colonizing Iraq ... The Obama Doctrine?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/98253.html

#6 Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama’s test in Ghana
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/98251.html

#7 David Ignatius: McNamara's Complicated Legacy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/97800.html

#8 D. D. Guttenplan: Michael Jackson and I.F. Stone
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/98145.html

#9 Peter Ferrara: The Bush Doctrine Is Still Working
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/97805.html

#10 Mark Naison: Recovery is NOT Around the Corner ... The Challenge Facing Today’s College Graduates
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/97165.html