Week of May 14, 2012
Up Front
 2012's Real Victory Won't Be Obama or Romney: It'll Be the National Security State William J. Astore |
 Now It's Obama Who's Our First Gay President! James Loewen |
Polls
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News at Home
 What Does It Take for a Candidate to be President? Interview with Samuel Popkin David A. Walsh |
 Why Did President Nixon Show George Romney the Door as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Michael H. Ebner |
 Obama "Evolved" on Same-Sex Marriage -- Lincoln "Evolved" on Slavery Corey M. Brooks |
News Abroad
 Why Did the Jewish Daily Forward Interview a Hamas Spokesman? Daniel Mandel |
 Mother's Day, 2012, and We're Still at War Murray Polner |
 America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill Tom Engelhardt |
Historians & History
 Was the Economic Miracle of World War II Fact or Fiction? Richard Striner |
 Roosevelt, Hughes, and the Battle over the New Deal: Interview with James Simon Robin Lindley |
Culture Watch
 "Elementary": Sherlock Holmes Is Back in a Big Way Bruce Chadwick |
 Peter Pan, the Boy Who Never Grew Up, Flies Back to Broadway with the Lost Boys in Tow Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Chase Madar's The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History Murray Polner |
 Review of Randal Maurice Jelks's Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Luther Spoehr |