Week of November 2, 2009

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan

HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform

News Abroad

The Cost of Empire
Deepak Tripathi

Afghanistan as a Bailout State
Tom Engelhardt

Should US Troops in Iraq be held Hostage to the Next Election
Juan Cole

Ahmed Wali Karzai Walks on Water While Marc Emery Goes to Prison: The Double Standards of the War on Drugs and the Historical Pattern of U.S. Complicity in the Global Narcotics Traffic
Jeremy Kuzmarov

Keeping Veterans Day Alive
Ed Hooper

How the Arabs Manipulate the Media, Israelis and the West
Alex Grobman

Historians & History

What Studying the Women in the Founders' Lives Reveals
Thomas Fleming

Reflections on Cambridge
Alan MacFarlane

The Role of Turkish Diplomats nn Saving Turkish Jews in France: 1940-1944
Arnold Reisman

20 Years Later: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Legacy of Erich Honecker
Jonathan Tremblay

Books

Review of David Barber's A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed
Nicole Frisone

Review of Paul Moses's The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace
Joseph Cunneen

Review of Michael J. Allen's Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
Murray Polner