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Roundup Top 10!

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  • On Other Websites: Week of August 27, 2012
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    On Other Websites: Week of August 27, 2012
  • Julian Zelizer: What GOP Needs To Do in Tampa
  • Estelle B. Freedman: Women’s Long Battle to Define Rape
  • Arthur Herman: Neil Armstrong’s America
  • Robert S. McElvaine: Has Obama Made the Job Situation Worse?
  • Nicole Gelinas: New Orleans Owes George W. Bush
  • Jennifer Tucker: The Medieval Roots of Todd Akin’s Theories
  • Robert O. Self: The Antisocial Contract
  • Stephen Platt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China's Long History of Defying the Doomsayers
  • Jacob Heilbrunn: Will Romney Discover His Inner Nixon?
  • Stephen Bates: Republican Religious Fundamentalists Would Rewrite American History
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    Posted on Friday, August 31, 2012 - 11:22
    On Other Websites: Week of August 20, 2012
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen: Exploding the Myths About Vietnam
  • Julian Zelizer: In Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Speeches Make History
  • Vanessa Heggie: 'Legitimate Rape' – A Medieval Medical Concept
  • Nicholas B. Dirks: Scholars, Spies, and Global Studies
  • David Pilling: Japan, China and Their ‘History Problem’
  • Pierre Manent: How the West Created Modernity
  • Michael Kazin: Fight the System, but Know How to Make It Work
  • Thomas A. Foster: Rep. Todd Akin's Ideas About Rape Hark Back to the Colonial Era
  • Richard Rothstein and Mark Santow: The Cost of Living Apart
  • Ray Takeyh: The Origins of Iran's Bellicosity
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    Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 18:30
    On Other Websites: Week of August 13, 2012
  • Jennifer Burns: Atlas Spurned
  • Charles K. Armstrong: The View From Pyongyang
  • Julian Zelizer: How Ryan Could Help Romney
  • Walter Russell Mead: 2012 ... Suddenly, A Historic Election?
  • Joseph Loconte: With Olympics, We Yearn To Be Like Gods
  • Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey: How (George) Romney Championed Civil Rights and Challenged His Church
  • Victor Davis Hanson: There Is No California
  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Pay No Attention to the Party Behind the Curtain
  • David Rothkopf: The Drums of August ... Israel is Not Bluffing
  • Joseph Rago: The Forgotten History of Ryan's Medicare Reform

    • Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 09:35
    On Other Websites: Week of August 6, 2012
  • Jared Diamond: Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Voting 'Reform' Across the Ages
  • Niall Ferguson: Blackout Just the Beginning in India
  • Derek Thompson: The Chart That 'Proves' Obama Will Be Crushed in the Election
  • Robert Krulwich: Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb [VIDEO]
  • Michael Seeley: What Are Wars Good For Anymore? Not for Plunder, At Least.
  • Colin Read: History of Algorithmic Trading Shows Promise and Perils
  • Erin Aubry Kaplan: Obama's Slave Link
  • Mary Kenny: The End of Catholic Ireland
  • Andrew Roberts: It's August ... Prepare for Cataclysm
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    Posted on Friday, August 10, 2012 - 12:38