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Everybody’s Talking About the Weather Everybody’s Talking About the Weather

The last few years have seen renewed interest in the Weathermen.

Mar 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Varon

The Three-State Solution? The Three-State Solution?

All nations are modern inventions, but those fashioned in the Middle East show their scaffolding more than most.

Mar 11, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Juan Cole

The Deciding Vote The Deciding Vote

According to the Constitution, the President, with the consent of the Senate, selects the members of the Supreme Court.

Mar 11, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

My Dinner With Aleksander My Dinner With Aleksander

In 1964 an important if somewhat obscure Polish writer and public intellectual named Aleksander Wat arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, and began the work that wou...

Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff

You Had to Be There You Had to Be There

Robin Blackburn spent 1968 in Havana, Prague, Berlin and London.

Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn

Skeletons in the Closet Skeletons in the Closet

Editor's Note: Due to an unfortunate glitch in production, two lines are missing from the printed version of Daniel Lazare's essay. They have been restored in this version.

Dec 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

One of the nation's finest historians, Studs Terkel has told the story of twentieth-century America through the voices of ordinary people.

Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason

Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

The Revolution Within The Revolution Within

In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as...

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert D. English

Changing History Changing History

Editor's Note: One year after the attacks, Eric Foner assessed the impact of 9/11 on the way America tells the story of itself and readjusts its relationship with the world. ...

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

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