Week of August 3, 2009

Up Front

Political Highlights: The Backlash Against Obama: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Arrest, Racism, and a Meeting over Beer
Bonnie Goodman

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform

HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis

HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court

HNN Special: On War

The Belief in Regenerative War: Why So Many American Intellectuals Supported the Iraq War
Jackson Lears

War Stories: Explaining Why We Fight to the American Home Front
Susan A. Brewer

The Limits of Power: An Interview with Andrew Bacevich
Aaron Leonard

News at Home

The Moderometer: Charting Obama’s Zig-Zag ... Step Left Domestically, Gesture Left Globally, but Keep Your Foreign Policies Somewhat Centered
Gil Troy

Why the Left Needs to Read Up on Reinhold Niebuhr
Mac McCorkle

News Abroad

The Ongoing Danger of Nuclear War
Lawrence S. Wittner

Russia: The Aggrieved Great Power
Leonid Luks

History Offers Hope that We Can Reduce the Risk of Global Warming
Jan Kunnas

Historians & History

Of Butterflies and Tipping Points: The Calamitous Summer of 1914
William J. Astore

The Continuing Relevance of William Penn
Kevin Kenny

Books

Review of Graciela Ben-Dror's The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina, 1933-1945
Marguerite Feitlowitz

Review of Kevin Mattson’s What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America’s “Malaise,” and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
Jim Cullen