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On Other Websites: Week of March 19, 2012

Rick Perlstein: Why Democrats Have a Problem with Young Voters

Lisa McGirr: The New Suburban Poverty

Susan J. Matt:The New Globalist Is Homesick

Robert Zaretsky: Toulouse Tragedy Shows Rhetoric's Danger

Robert D. Kaplan: 1848 ... History's Shadow Over the Middle East

Kirsten Swinth: Hillary Clinton, Cookies and the Rise of Working Families

#7  Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Red Songs, Black Boxes and the Tale of Bo Xilai

#8  DD Guttenplan: How Rick Santorum's 1860 Comparison Might Be Right

#9  Terrence M. McCoy: How Joseph Stalin Invented 'American Exceptionalism'

#10  Radwan Ziadeh: Have We Learned Nothing From the Nineties? Syria is the Balkans All Over Again