Week of June 9, 2008
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Election 2008: McCain vs. Obama
HNN Hot Topics: Obama and Race
News at Home
American Democracy: The 10 Alarm Fire We're Ignoring
Rick Shenkman
Obama’s “New Politics” Inspired by Rush Limbaugh and Ken Starr
Edward Olshaker
The Economy: The Problem We Face
Jules R. Benjamin
Assassination Jokes: How Funny Are They?
William Loren Katz
Saving the Constitution from Lawyers
Robert J. Spitzer
Clintonism not Sexism Defeated Hillary
Gil Troy
News Abroad
Iranian anti-Semitic Bloggers: From Mickey Mouse's Plot to Gaddafi's Jewishness
Hamid Tehrani
Could China Have Anticipated the Earthquake--And Prepared for it?
Peter Navarro
Historians & History
1966--When Everything Changed
Rick Perlstein
Kevin Mattson Vs. Sean Wilentz: Who's Being Partisan?
The Challenge of the Absolute
Thomas Fleming
How Americans in the Civil War Dealt with Death: One Historian's View
Mark S. Schantz
Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke
Culture Watch
The Legacy of Pulitzer-Prize Winning Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: An Interview with Biographer Todd DePastino
Robin Lindley