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Week of September 12, 2011

Up Front

NEW BLOG Jim Loewen

9/11

HNN Hot Topics: 9/11

Ten Years After 9/11, Jihadis are Winning the War
Walid Phares

One Day, We'll Commemorate 9/11 Like the Civil War—Heart-Felt, but Detached and Reflective
Kevin M. Levin

Still Smoldering Ten Years after 9/11 -- Yet Still Hopeful
Gil Troy

"What If It Had Rained on September 11?" and Three Other Questions about 9/11
Jesse Lemisch

How to Teach about 9/11
Bruce Craig

Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Mary L. Dudziak

News at Home

Finally, Bill Keller, the New York Times's Liberal Hawk, Repents
Ruth Rosen

The War on Higher Education
John T. McNay

Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You: America's Reserve Army of the Unemployed
Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman

How Big Government Enables Big Religion
Benjamin E. Zeller

Florida's Bloody Election History Casts a Long Shadow over Voter Suppression Efforts
Karl Shepard

News Abroad

Anna Hazare Isn't Gandhi, But His Movement is What India Needs
Vidyadhar Date

Historians & History

Jane Fonda and Her Friendly North Vietnamese Intelligence Officer
Merle L. Pribbenow

New York Banned Handguns 100 Years Ago ... Will We Ever See that Kind of Gun Control Again?
Daniel Platt

Volcanoes Can Seriously Ruin Our Day ... So Let's Look to History for Clues on How to Deal with Catastrophic Eruptions
Clive Oppenheimer

Don't Thank LBJ and FDR for the Welfare State—Thank Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln
Bill Nichols

Culture Watch

Othello’s Wars, Wives and Wickedness Heat Up Sixteenth-Century Venice
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Deepak Tripathi's Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism
Majorie Cohn

Review of Daniel Rasmussen's American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Alan Singer