Week of May 14, 2012

Up Front

2012's Real Victory Won't Be Obama or Romney: It'll Be the National Security State William J. Astore

Now It's Obama Who's Our First Gay President! James Loewen

Polls

News at Home

What Does It Take for a Candidate to be President? Interview with Samuel Popkin David A. Walsh

Why Did President Nixon Show George Romney the Door as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Michael H. Ebner

Obama "Evolved" on Same-Sex Marriage -- Lincoln "Evolved" on Slavery Corey M. Brooks

News Abroad

Why Did the Jewish Daily Forward Interview a Hamas Spokesman? Daniel Mandel

Mother's Day, 2012, and We're Still at War Murray Polner

America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill Tom Engelhardt

Historians & History

Was the Economic Miracle of World War II Fact or Fiction? Richard Striner

Roosevelt, Hughes, and the Battle over the New Deal: Interview with James Simon Robin Lindley

Culture Watch

"Elementary": Sherlock Holmes Is Back in a Big Way Bruce Chadwick

Peter Pan, the Boy Who Never Grew Up, Flies Back to Broadway with the Lost Boys in Tow Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Chase Madar's The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History Murray Polner

Review of Randal Maurice Jelks's Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Luther Spoehr