Roundup Top 10!

Imperfect Union: The Constitution Didn't Foresee Divided Government by Garrett Epps Watching the battle between Obama and a Republican Congress for two years may shake Americans' faith in the Framers.

Obama’s JFK Problem by Fredrik Logevall and Gordon M. Goldstein How the battle between the president and his joint chiefs chairman over Iraq recalls the early days of Vietnam.

3rd Possibility: Coming Civil War in West Bank/ Jerusalem? by Juan Cole Observers of the evolution of the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians have long argued that there are only two likely outcomes of the alternating violence and diplomacy between the two sides that has gone on nearly 70 years now.

Why Is American Teaching So Bad? by Jonathan Zimmerman Who becomes a teacher in America? The answer keeps changing, and not in ways that should make any of us proud.

The President Who Never Earned His Varsity Letter by Michael Beschloss For a president who never made the front line of his college squad, football played a surprisingly large part in Richard Nixon’s life.

Delusions of the Democrats by Kevin Baker Demographics will not save them. A vision might.

Textbooks proposed for Texas schools open can of worms by Emile J. Lester "Students in Texas public schools could soon be learning that democracy and our nation’s government are based on the ideas of biblical figures like Moses and King Solomon."

Common Core: It Really Is All About the Tests (and Corporate Profits) by Alan Singer When you look at the history of the push for national standards you realize Common Core is all about testing.

This Republican Loved Taxes & Modern Art by Scott Porch A social progressive and a fiscal conservative, Nelson Rockefeller was closer to FDR than Reagan, says his biographer Richard Norton Smith.

Obama Is Legally Allowed to Enforce—or Not Enforce—the Law by Eric A. Posner Ross Douthat misunderstands the separation of powers