Week of May 7, 2012
Up Front
 On Islam, Romney Doesn't Have the Slightest Idea What He's Talking About Juan Cole |
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News at Home
 How Mormon History Has Shaped Mitt Romney Daniel J. Herman |
 Occupy Activists Resurrect May Day for Americans Peter Dreier |
News Abroad
 Protests Over Housing Inequality Have a Long History in Israel Yfaat Weiss |
 No More Victory Days? Joseph E. Persico |
Historians & History
 Republicans, Mormons, and Jews: The Unlikely 1940s Alliance That Reshaped U.S. Mideast Policy Rafael Medoff |
 David Barton’s Jefferson Martin E. Marty |
 CNN's Conspiracy Bias in the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Mel Ayton |
 I Did It My Way—By Accident: Lessons from an Unconventional Career Ray Smock |
 How Did TV Remember the '92 L.A. Riots? Jill A. Edy |
Culture Watch
 The Long Shadow of History Falls Over Copenhagen and the Race for the Atomic Bomb in World War II Bruce Chadwick |
 1960s Midwest Drama Burns Slowly on Stage Bruce Chadwick |
 Death in the End Zone: NFL Concussion Crisis Play Packs Wallop Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Patricia Cohen's In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Jim Cullen |