Week of April 2, 2012
Up Front
 History Shows Brokered Conventions Go for the Moderate Candidate Nicole Hemmer |
 Editor's Desk: Rock 'n' Roll Sells Out on Mad Men |
 HNN Book of the Month: A People's History of Baseball |
Polls
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Questions People are Googling
- Can Anything Be Done to Increase Voter Participation?
- What Happened When Democrats in Congress Cut Off Funding for the Vietnam War?
News at Home
 "The Supreme Court is a Very Great ... Institution," but Today It's "Outrageous": Interview with Anthony Lewis, Part 1 Adam Eisenberg |
 The Texas Sabbath Showdown—The Inside Story Edwin Black |
 Life During Wartime: Wisconsin Death Trap? Joshua Brown |
News Abroad
 Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam Daniel Pipes |
 The Arab Spring Continues, Just Not on American TV Juan Cole |
Historians & History
 April 1912 Didn't Just See the Sinking of the Titanic -- The Fortunes of the GOP Sank, Too Adam Burns |
 Despite What Some Still Maintain, the Lewinsky Scandal Didn't Affect Clinton's Iraq Strategy Lee Ruddin |
Culture Watch
 The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties Are Back, Green Light and All, On Stages and Screens Near You Bruck Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Michael T. Klare's The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the Globe's Last Resources Lawrence S. Wittner |
 Review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion Jim Cullen |