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HNN Hot Topics: Obama's Election ... What It Means

HNN Hot Topics: Meltdown 2008

News at Home

Communities of Rumor and the American Electorate
Jeremy Young

Why Public Confession Speaks to a Secular America
Susan Wise Bauer

News Abroad

The Middle East Presents Obama with a Host of Problems, and Few Palatable Solutions
Mark A. LeVine

The Obama Administration, Iraq, and the Question of Leverage
Reidar Visser

Terrorism in Kashmir ... Origin and Growth
Shiben Krishen Raina

Historians & History

Iraq, Vietnam, and the Lessons from History
Ingo Trauschweizer

Bush’s Library ... The Kurds, Oil and Missing Records
Laray Polk

The Civil War Through Slaves' Eyes: An Interview with Andrew Ward
Robin Lindley

Failures of the Presidents: JFK's Bay of Pigs Disaster
Thomas J. Craughwell with M. William Phelps

How We Remember Them: The 1914-18 War Today
Dan Todman

Books

Review of Charles Murray's Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality and Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It
Luther Spoehr

Review of Pete Fornatale's Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends
Kirk Bane