Week of March 9, 2009
Up Front
Political Highlights: Obama Focuses on the Economy, Budget Debate Dominates, but Afghanistan Looms
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
That Chimpanzee Cartoon Was Dangerous
William Loren Katz
Why We Need a “Truth Commission” to Investigate Torture
William J. Astore
News Abroad
The Voice of America, Silenced on Radical Islam
Daniel Pipes
National Security Reform: A Second Opinion
James Douglas Orton
A Lesson of History: U.S.-Soviet Recognition and Barack Obama’s Iran Policy
Asgar Asgarov
Nuclear Weapons, The Great Lakes and Lake Champlain?
William Lambers
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians ... This Week: Holly Case
Bonnie Goodman
Why Do the Courts Let Presidents Get Away with War?
Alfred W. Blumrosen and Steven M. Blumrosen
The Pastness of the Past
Gordon Wood
It's Time to Remember the Role of Indians in the Mexican-American War
Brian DeLay
Books
Review of Deborah Nelson's The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes
Jeremy Kuzmarov