Week of June 9, 2008

#1 Jim Castagnera: Is Barack Obama the African-American Al Smith or JFK?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51238.html

#2 Leon Wieseltier: Let The Just Times Roll! A Pause To Appreciate The Marvelousness Of A Black Presidential Nominee
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51265.html

#3 Johann Hari: If you really want to understand what this race is about, look at the two candidates' fathers
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51270.html

#4 Conrad Black: Five Minutes That Saved France
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51321.html

#5 Ruth Rosen: Tales From Inside the Editorial Board Room
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51239.html

#6 Neve Gordon: Israel's problem, since its 1967 victory, is that it wants Palestinian land but not the people who live on it
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51150.html

#7 Frederick Kagan & Kimberly Kagan: How Prime Minister Maliki Pacified Iraq
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51263.html

#8 James Ridgeway: Seeing Bobby Kennedy in Barack Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51317.html

#9 Con Coughlin: Jimmy Carter pledged to reform US foreign policy... and look what happened http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51162.html

#10 Jeff Biggers: America's First Blogger ... Anne Royall
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/51313.html