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HNN Rundowns

Week of December 7, 2009

Up Front

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

Political Highlights: President Obama Focuses on the Economy, Max Baucus Scandal and Sarah Palin at the Gridiron Dinner
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan

HNN Special: TR and Pearl Harbor

Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley
Aaron Leonard

HNN Special: Nixon, Kissinger & Fritz Kraemer

Who Was Fritz Kraemer? And Why We Should Care.
Luke Nichter

The Nixon Quartet
Tom Shachtman

News at Home

Why Homicide Declined in American Cities during the First Six Months of 2009
Randolph Roth

Fred Hampton, Barack Obama, and the American Urban Poor
Simon Balto

Obama and Health Care: Confronted by Critics, Haunted by History
Gil Troy

How the Vice President Can Serve as the President's Most Unbiased Adviser
Joel K. Goldstein

After Maine: Can Houston Provide a Much-Needed Victory for the Gay Rights Movement?
Blake A. Ellis

In Praise of “Happy Holidays”
Edward T. O'Donnell

News Abroad

Obama, Copenhagen, and the Global Warming Skeptics
Walter G. Moss

Thinking Outside the Box: What Obama Could Have Said
Lawrence S. Wittner

Post-Islamophobia: How Cultural Integration Can Prevent Terrorism and Build Peace
Antony Adolf

The Neglected Art of Diplomacy
Kenneth Weisbrode

Books

Review of Gail Collins's When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women, 1960-present
Jim Cullen

Review of Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original, ed. by Daniel Rice
Mac McCorkle