Week of January 30, 2012
Up Front
NEW No, Newt, the U.S. Cannot Make the Moon a State. That's Illegal Under International Law.
Daniel S. Margolies
Former Gingrich Ally Claims Republican Leaders Blackmailed Him Over Affair
David A. Walsh
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- Did Anyone Care that George Romney Was Mormon?
- How Did the Deregulation Movement Get Started?
- When Did the U.S. and Israel Become Allies? (Hint: Trick Question)
- Who Dreamed Up Our Concept of Time?
Blogs
News at Home
How Newt Gingrich's GOP Rivals Blackmailed Him Back in the '90s
Scot Faulkner
A Brief History Of Debt
Louis Hyman
What I Told the Hedge Fund Managers in Miami
James Livingston
GOP Debate Trivializes First Ladies
Gil Troy
Taking the Long View on Presidential Transcript Releases
Leslie Kitchen
News Abroad
Keep Karzai in the Loop
Matt Jacobs
Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict
William J. Astore
Don't Ignore Electoral Fraud in Egypt
Daniel Pipes
Historians & History
A History Lesson for Newt Gingrich: Andrew Jackson was a Savage Indian Killer
William Loren Katz
Culture Watch
The Convert: a Disturbing, Moving Look at Colonialism in Zimbabwe in the 1890s
Bruce Chadwick
Red Tails: World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen Fly Again in Film and on Stage but Much History is Ignored
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Conor O'Clery's Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
Murray Polner