Week of November 9, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
The Marshmallow Center of American Politics in the 21st Century
Rich Benjamin
Is Health Care a Human Right?
Walter Moss
The New Alabama
Robert "KC" Johnson
Fort Hood: What the Right and the Left Have Gotten Wrong about Hasan
Jonathan Zimmerman
News Abroad
How James Monroe Policies Might Help Obama Triumph over Foreign Foes
Harlow Giles Unger
The Forgotten Japanese in North Korea: Beyond the Politics of Abduction
Tessa Morris-Suzuk
What Is Zionism?
Alex Grobman
Historians & History
The Civil Rights-Black Power Nexus in African American History
Kwasi Konadu
Why 1808 Marked a Pivotal Moment in US History
Lacy Ford
Encounters with the History of South Africa
Dominique Lapierre
Books
Review of Sam Tanenhaus's The Death of Conservatism
Andrew Hartman
Review of Eric Kurlander's Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich
Jeffrey Gaab
Review of Constance Rosenblum's Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in The Bronx
Robert Parmet