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  • David Grann: The Yankee Comandante -- A Story of Love, Revolution, and Betrayal
  • Simon Schama: Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee
  • Julian Zelizer: How Political Ads Can Elect a President
  • Conrad Black: The "End of History" was a Sobering Farce
  • John Nagl: Does Military Service Still Matter for the Presidency?
  • Asher Kaufman: Only Russia, China Can Stop Carnage in Syria
  • Richard J. Evans: The Death of Celebrity Historians is Much Exaggerated
  • Juan Cole: For Egypt in 2012, Read the United States in ’60s?
  • Nancy Gibbs: President, to President, to President ... POTUS' Best Confidant May Be His Predecessors
  • Jeffrey Lord: JFK and the Death of Liberalism

    • Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 10:40
    On Other Websites: Week of May 14, 2012
  • Scott Lemieux: LBJ and the Bully Pulpit
  • Walter Russell Mead: OWS RIP
  • John T. Kuehn: Professional Military Education Isn't Bad -- But It Isn't Valued by Policymakers
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Let Sleeping Germans Lie
  • Michael Oren: What Happened to Israel's Reputation?
  • Garry Wills: Review of Robert Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • Katherine Stewart: Texas's War on History
  • Michael Barone: Presidential Scenarios ... Will 2012 Be Like 2000, 1988, Or 1964?
  • Michael Lind: Why Do Conservatives Hate Freedom?
  • Duchess Harris: If Being Fat was Ever an Act of Black Resistance, It's Not Any Longer

    • Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 15:50
    On Other Websites: Week of May 21, 2012
  • Trygve Throntveit: Obama and the New Freedom
  • Victor Davis Hanson: The Power of Cool
  • Roderick MacFarquhar: In China, Fear at the Top
  • Andrew Roberts: Europe’s Hubristic Imperial Overstretch
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Warren’s Choice on Race
  • Frank Bruni: Second Acts for First Ladies
  • David Makovsky and Olivia Holt-Ivry: Why Are Israeli Generals So Often Overruled?
  • Clare Morgana Gillis: The End of History in the New Libya
  • Clive Crook: The Seeds of the EU’s Crisis Were Sown 60 Years Ago
  • Lee Ruddin: The Anglo-American (Intelligence-Sharing) Relationship in the War Against Islamist Terrorism

    • Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 10:38
    On Other Websites: Week of May 7, 2012
  • Timothy Stanley: Is Same-Sex Marriage Too Radical for America?
  • Thomas Meaney and Stephen Wertheim: Grand Flattery: The Yale Grand Strategy Seminar
  • Robert W. Merry: Lugar and the Senate's Fallen Giants
  • Robert Zaretsky: Hollande Faces Challenge of Winning Over Jews
  • Peter Berkowitz: Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers
  • Steve Chapman: Every President is a War President ... Politics Protects the Garrison State
  • Kara Dixon Vuic: Prostitution and the U.S. Military
  • Ronald Radosh: Another Central American Tyrant Passes from the Scene: Farewell to Tomás Borge
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Presidential Narcissism
  • Richard Cohen: Obama Should Embrace LBJ's Lessons

    • Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 23:46
    On Other Websites: Week of April 30, 2012
  • Gil Troy: Culture Warriors Don’t Win
  • Niall Ferguson: How Africa Is Primed for Economic Take Off
  • Max Holland: New Questions About Deep Throat
  • Adam Arenson: Stonewall Jackson's Arm Lies Here
  • Thai Jones: The First of May
  • Todd Gitlin: How Occupy's Year of Transformation Compares t o the Revolutions of 1848 and 1968
  • William Shawcross: Murdoch Has Been the Bravest Media Owner in Britain in the Last 40 Years
  • Christoph Gunkel: The Good Göring ... How a Top Nazi's Brother Saved Lives
  • Jose A. Rodriguez: The Path to bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Start with Obama
  • Donald Sassoon: To Understand This Crisis We Can Look to the Long Depression Too

    • Posted on Monday, May 7, 2012 - 07:51