Week of August 24, 2009

#1 “There Must Be a Reason”: Osama, Saddam, and Inferred Justification
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115945.html

#2 Frederick W. Kagan: We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115955.html

#3 Dean Baker: Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115935.html

#4 Sean Wilentz: Triumph And Tragedy ... The Seesaw Life Of Edward M. Kennedy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115950.html

#5 Juan Cole: Palestinians Plan State, but Will Netanyahu Block it?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115961.html

#6 Julian E. Zelizer: Ted Kennedy was a true believer
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115931.html

#7 Catherine Merridale: Stalin's Ghost in Russia
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115711.html

#8 Richard Pipes: Pride and Power, Russia caught between continents and haunted by its past
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115759.html

#9 Humberto Fontova: Looking the Other Way on Castro
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115991.html

#10 Michael Goldfarb: Americans and the lessons of Europe's history with terrorism
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115949.html