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Week of April 2, 2012


Up Front



History Shows Brokered Conventions Go for the Moderate Candidate
Nicole Hemmer


Editor's Desk: Rock 'n' Roll Sells Out on Mad Men


HNN Book of the Month: A People's History of Baseball

Polls


Questions People are Googling


More Questions

News at Home


"The Supreme Court is a Very Great ... Institution," but Today It's "Outrageous": Interview with Anthony Lewis, Part 1

Adam Eisenberg


The Texas Sabbath Showdown—The Inside Story

Edwin Black


Life During Wartime: Wisconsin Death Trap?

Joshua Brown

News Abroad



Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam

Daniel Pipes


The Arab Spring Continues, Just Not on American TV
Juan Cole

Historians & History



April 1912 Didn't Just See the Sinking of the Titanic -- The Fortunes of the GOP Sank, Too
Adam Burns


Despite What Some Still Maintain, the Lewinsky Scandal Didn't Affect Clinton's Iraq Strategy

Lee Ruddin

Culture Watch



The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties Are Back, Green Light and All, On Stages and Screens Near You

Bruck Chadwick

Books



Review of Michael T. Klare's The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the Globe's Last Resources

Lawrence S. Wittner


Review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jim Cullen