Week of January 16, 2012

News at Home

Early Attacks on Romney's Bain Capital Record May Inoculate Him Against Democratic Attacks
Gil Troy

Lesson for Obama: GOP Mud Didn't Stick to FDR
Rosemarie Ostler

Americans Are Less Nationalistic than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Lawrence S. Wittner

Let's Ditch "Detainee" and "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" and Use the Right Words: "Prisoner" and "Torture"
Caroline V. Hamilton

News Abroad

"We're on a Destabilizing Planet": Interview with Tom Engelhardt
David A. Walsh

The Lost Generation? Youth and the Great Recession
Iwan Morgan

How Beijing Sees Us
Michael H. Hunt

South Sudan, Israel's New (Troubled) Ally
Daniel Pipes

Will Pakistan’s Crisis Affect the U.S. in Afghanistan?
Juan Cole

Who Will Be the Next Pope?
Charles Keenan

Historians & History

Richard Nixon, from Mean-Spirited Disgrace to Elder Statesman
Yoav J. Tenembaum

Books

Review of Jason Heller's Taft: A Novel
Jim Cullen

Review of Louisa Thomas's Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacificists, One Family—A Test of Will and Faith in World War I
Murray Polner