Week of July 20, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
News Abroad
The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure: From the Vietnam to the Afghan Quagmire
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Japan’s Unresolved Colonial Past and Today’s North Korea Problem
Gavan McCormack
News at Home
The Dangers of Excessive Secrecy
Kathryn Olmsted
The Tea Party’s Appeal Across the Political Spectrum
Benjamin L. Carp
Are We Always Going to Be Preoccupied with Racism?
William McKee Evans
Historians & History
McNamara's Other War
Patrick Sharma
The World at 65
Tom Engelhardt
What We Can Learn from Harlem's Encounter with Columbia University Forty Years Ago
Stefan Bradley
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground at Forty
Ron Briley
Books
Review of Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North
Wesley Hogan
Review of Thomas Childers’s Soldier From the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
Luther Spoehr