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Weeks of August 8 and August 15, 2011

Up Front

HNN Poll: Grading Obama

HNN Hot Topics: Stock Market Crashes

HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown

HNN Hot Topics: Debt Ceiling

HNN Hot Topics: Hiroshima

News at Home

Stock Market Crash: What are the Politics Behind It?
Robert Brent Toplin

How Not To Talk About Financial Panics: New Rules For Pundits 
James Livingston

Wanted: A President Who is Tougher Than Terrycloth
Gil Troy

Obama's Just Another Moderate Republican
Stanley Kutler

Conservatives Put Their Faith in the God "Market" ... And It's a God that Can Fail
Robert S. McElvaine

We May Not Like What Teach for America Has Become, But Maybe Progressives Can Bring It Back to Its Roots
Mark Naison

Are America and Europe Sinking into Meltdown 2.0?
Iwan Morgan

How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars: Axe "Missile Defense"
Lawrence S. Wittner

News Abroad

Canada Helped Feed Europe's Children—Now It Needs to Feed Africa's
William Lambers

Historians & History

NEW Hiroshima & Nagasaki: 66 Years Later
Murray Polner

Why Stephen Ambrose's World War II and Mine Are So Different
Bernard A. Weisberger

"Witness to an Extreme Century": An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton
Robin Lindley

The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up—And the Greatest Movie Never Made
Greg Mitchell

Wait, The Berlin Wall's Already Been Down for Twenty Years?
Brian Ladd

Culture Watch

"Chasing Heaven" Chases the Question of Who Writes History
Bruce Chadwick

A Sarcastic Play about Bombings, Suicides, Police Scandals, Anarchists and the New Left in Italy in 1969 Scores for New Jersey Theater
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of John Ferling's Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
Eric Herschthal

Review of Steven Tyler's Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
Jim Cullen

Review of Jennifer Frost's Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism
Ron Briley