Aug 25, 2009
Week of August 17, 2009.
News at Home
The “Birther” Controversy of 1891
Thomas Brown
Remember When Health Insurance Was a Great Idea?
Gustav Schonfeld, MD
Using History to Help Reframe Today’s Health Care Debate
Jeanne Abrams
Taking the Measure of the UC System: Equal Campuses or Three Tiers?
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
News Abroad
Is Obama Aware of the History of Failure that Marks Our Drug War in Latin America?
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire
Chalmers Johnson
Our Suicide Bombers
John Feffer
Historians & History
On This Day in History: Woodstock 1969 40 Years Later ...
Bonnie Goodman
Culture Watch
My Woodstock
Jim Castagnera
Books
Review of Christopher Pyle’s Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law
Deepak Tripathi