Week of November 5, 2012
Up Front: Election 2012
 “Hope and Change” Born Again: The New, Improved Version The old slogan takes on a new meaning with a second term. |
 How Obama Won Ohio Yes, he had a better ground game, but it was thanks to organized labor and Citizens United. |
 We All Live in Obamerica Obama is no anomaly -- he's the emblem of a profoundly transformed America. |
 What Sunk Mitt: GOP Extremism There's no getting around the fact that what the GOP was selling, the voters weren't buying. |
 Google+ Hangout Chat on Election 2012 Publisher Rick Shenkman, editor David A. Walsh, blogger Gil Troy, and historians Ed O'Donnell and K.C. Johnson liveblog election night. |
 A Look at the Charter School Battle in Washington State If Initiative 1240 passes today, it'll be open season on public schools. |
Blogs
 Obama vs. Boehner: Who is the True Jeffersonian? The metropolis of government vs. the metropoles of big business. |
 An Election Day Plea: Accept the People's Verdict After an incredibly bitter and divisive election, it's important to accept the legitimacy of the winner. |
 Morons in Africa Why Charles Murray is dead wrong about IQ and race. |
 Finally, the Election is Over After two years and hundreds of millions of dollars, few have changed their minds. |
 Ryan's Hope... A boy and his inspiration. |
News at Home
 I Hope Obama Wins, But I’m Still Mad at Him What happens when women’s rights become a means to someone else’s end. |
 Why Has Mormonism Been Such a Non-Issue in This Election? Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have the incentive to bring it up. |
 Mitt Romney’s Leadership Style His political personality can be best described as "dutiful conformist." |
 Campaign Finances and Original Intent The Founders never intended something like Citizens United. |
News Abroad
 The Foreign Policy Case Against Barack Obama He's consistently mismanaged crises in the Greater Middle East. |
 The U.S. *Has* Pulled Off Successful Embassy Rescues Before Nanking in 1927, Saigon in 1968. |
 Ninety-Five Years Since the Balfour Declaration The British didn't intend it, but they changed the course of Jewish history. |
Hurricane Sandy
 Letting Go of "Mother Nature" Hurricane Sandy should teach us the dangers of anthropomorphizing and feminizing the natural world. |
 New York City and Hurricanes: A Brief History Sandy was far from the first. |
 Hymn to Working-Class New York It's the working people of New York who in moments of crisis sacrifice themselves for others. |
Historians & History
 1965: When the "Sixties" Really Started In 1964, the country seemed on the cusp of a golden age. In 1965, things fell apart. |
 The seminal scholar proved that even at 92, a great thinker can have something new to say. |
Books
 Review of I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics -- Interviews with Jon Wiener We won't see the likes of a public intellectual of Vidal's style again. |
 Review of J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: A Novel Like Dickens, there's a surprising toughness beneath the sentiment and humor. |