Week of Aug. 6, 2007
Up Front
History Buzz Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
What Murdoch Won't Want to Change at the Wall Street Journal Robert Brent Toplin
Will We Ever Get National Health Insurance? Jill Quadagno
The Scary Origins of Chief Justice Roberts's Decision Opposing the Use of Race to Promote Integration Nancy MacLean
News Abroad
Olympic Dreams--and Nightmares Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Ban the Burqa - and the Niqab Too Daniel Pipes
Beating Back the Latest Neocon Attack Scheme Gary Leupp
What's Fair and Not Fair in the Middle East Debates? David Slavin
Historians & History
Why Hiroshima Day Events Matter Lawrence S. Wittner
150 Years After the Civil War Can We Finally Remember It the Way We Should? Robert Cook
The Miracle of Jewish History Benjamin Blech
Books
Has the Press Failed Us? Reviews of Two Books Murray Polner
Review of Georgina Howell’s Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations Lee P. Ruddin