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Week of February 6, 2012

Up Front

NEW Why Conservatives Never Cry Voter Fraud Against One of Their Own
Timothy Stanley

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News at Home

Mitt Romney Channels Dan Quayle as Gaffemeister General
Gil Troy

Mitt's Verbal Gaffes Shows That When It Comes to Politics, He's Not His Father's So
Ian C. Friedman

Memo from Red-State America: We're Not Stupid!
Robert Wuthnow

How A Crackpot Theory of Education Reform Became National Policy
Mark Naison

News Abroad

Afghanistan: The Argument for Continuing America’s Longest War
Brian Glyn Williams

Has Mitt Romney's Mormonism Influenced His Views on Islam?
Timothy R. Furnish

Calling Herr Madison: The EU Needs to Take a Page from the Founding Fathers
David O. Stewart

Iran Through the Looking Glass
Tom Engelhardt

Historians & History

Rediscovering the History Uncertainty Principle
Gil Troy

A Titanic Hero Made by History: Interview with Author and Commentator Chris Matthews on the Elusive John F. Kennedy
Robin Lindley

What Happened to the Statesman?
Frank Uekoetter

Culture Watch

TV's Smash is a Winner, But It Needs More History
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Kent Greenfield's The Cult of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
Jim Cullen