Week of June 13, 2011

Up Front

Ex-CIA Agent Alleges Bush White House Sought to Spy on Juan Cole

NAEP History Exam Results at a Glance

HNN Hot Topics: Low History IQs

HNN Hot Topics: U.S.-Israel Relations

HNN Hot Topics: Presidential Doctrines

News at Home

The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish Establishment
Jack Ross

A Brief History of Opposition to Public-Sector Unionism
Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman

Where Have All the Jobs Gone?
Judith Stein

Why President Obama Must Replace Arne Duncan If He Hopes to Win Re-Election
Mark Naison

News Abroad

How the Military and the Civilian Are Blurring in Washington
William J. Astore

Obama Doesn't Have a Presidential Doctrine—He Has a Demi-Doctrine
Christopher McKnight Nichols

The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan Didn't Sort Out the Country—Will Ours?
Rodric Braithwaite

Fukushima: Three Months Later
Frank Uekoetter

Channelling George Washington: Don't Let Afghanistan Turn Into Another South Vietnam
Thomas Fleming

Historians & History

We Wouldn't Have Won the "Good War" Without the Soviets—Why Did They Fight?
Roger R. Reese

Hate Over the Very Long Term: An Unexpected Link Between Medieval Anti-Semitism and the Nazis
Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

Culture Watch

Broadway Theater's History Plays Set All-Time Box Office Record
Bruce Chadwick

Back in Old Egypt for a Song and Dance with Cleo and Julius
Bruce Chadwick

Tennessee Williams's Dark, Disturbing Play About a Crippled Hustler
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together: Why We Expect More of Technology and Less from Each Other
Jim Cullen

Review of Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
Jim Cullen