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By Nikolas Kozloff: "A New Cold War in the Caribbean?" [Venezuela, Russia, and the United States] (distributed 9/15/08)

By John H. Barnhill: "Does Experience Really Help?" [The value of a presidential candidate's resume] (distributed 9/8/08)

By Howard P. Segal: "Sarah Palin Distorts the Founders' Religious Views," [Is the United States a Christian Nation?] (distributed 9/6/08)

By Hal Brands: "War on Drugs: What Won't Work -- Again," [The problems with President Bush's Plan Merida] (distributed 7/23/08)

By Joel K. Goldstein: "Why the Vice-Presidential Nominees Will Be Presidential," [Why modern politics demands better running mates] (distributed 7/18/08)

By Steven Conn: "The Dreary Science Meets Politics," [Government intervention in the economy] (distributed 7/13/08)

By Matt Jacobs: "Why Economic Sanctions Often Fail," [Why sanctions have not worked well with Iran and Cuba] (distributed 6/27/08)

By Joel K. Goldstein: "When Congress Failed to Stop the Vietnam War," [Why Congress is unable to stop the Iraq War] (distributed 6/26/08)

By David Kyvig: "How Presidential Power Became Untouchable," [Why presidents can get away with breaking national security laws] (distributed 6/12/08)

By Ira Chernus: "Democrats Must Beware the Curse of 1972," [How Iraq could cost the Democrats victory in 2008] (distributed 6/5/08)

By Ralph E. Shaffer and John A. Moore, Jr.: "Must We Ever 'Fear to Negotiate'?" [Sometimes we must negotiate with evil empires] (distributed 5/23/08)

By Christopher McKnight Nichols: "Time (yet again) for preventative regulation," [The economy must be vigorously managed] (distributed 3/25/08)

By Norman Markowitz: "Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?" [Time to return to the policies of the New Deal] (distributed 3/15/08)

By Thomas A. Foster: "This Won't Be the Last Political Sex Scandal," [Old moral standards and modern politics] (distributed 3/12/08)

By William Lambers: "Food for Peace Must Remain an American Priority," [Food aid to foreign nations must continue] (distributed 3/11/08)

By Michael H. Creswell: "Misremembering Reagan," [Reagan more flexible than we remember] (distributed 3/9/08)

By Nancy C. Unger: "Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections," [Democrats' nominating system runs counter to past progress] (distributed 3/6/08)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "How Eloquence Has Paved the Way to the White House," [The speeches of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Reagan, and Clinton] (distributed 3/3/08)

By James Grossman: "Don't Get Tough, Barack," [Negative campaigning a bad idea] (distributed 1/31/08)

By Thomas F. Jackson: "Can today's candidates revive Martin Luther King's 'shattered dreams'?" [The need to renew the fight for civil rights] (distributed 1/19/08)

By Steven Conn: "The 'Wall of Separation' Has Preserved Religion -- Including Mormonism" [Mitt Romney, and the importance of keeping church and state separate] (distributed 12/10/07)

By Johann N. Neem: "The Peril of Absolute Power" [The importance of international cooperation] (distributed 11/24/07)

By Maarja Krusten: "New Laws Needed to Stop Bullying of National Archives" [Presidential pressure on national archivists] (distributed 11/15/07)

By Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson: "Joe McCarthy Rides Again" [Jane Harman's "Thought Police" bill] (distributed 11/13/07)

By Jeremy Cameron Young: "Why Al - and many others - choose not to run" [The diminishing power of the presidency] (distributed 11/11/07)

By William Lambers: "We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear Disarmament" [The members of the "nuclear club" must work together] (distributed 11/4/07)

By Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: "Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima" [The death of Paul Tibbets, Jr. who piloted the Enola Gay] (distributed 11/2/07)

By Colin Fisher: "San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural" [The political and human mistakes that contributed to the San Diego fires] (distributed 10/27/07)

By Ken Hughes: "Don't Believe 'Peace Is at Hand'" [Iraq and the end of the Vietnam War] (distributed 10/20/07)

By Hal Brands: "Vietnam and Iraq: The Benefits of Getting Out," [The costs and benefits of leaving Iraq] (distributed 10/4/07)

By Gabrielle Hecht: "Contradictions in Atomic Agency's Mandate," [Iran's nuclear program and the International Atomic Energy Agency] (distributed 10/3/07)

By Shannon Monaghan: "Churchill on Iraq: "Living on an Ungrateful Volcano," [George Bush, Winston Churchill, and Iraq] (distributed 10/1/07)

By Paul Finkelman: "From King George the Third to the Third President George: Mercenaries are Still a Bad Idea," [Mercenary soldiers in American history] (distributed 9/28/07)

By Joyce Appleby: "Democracy by force, or by example?" [American efforts to spread democracy, in 2007 and in 1824] (distributed 9/25/07)

By John Fea: "Those Who Abuse the Past Are Bound to Misunderstand It," [Christianity and the founding of the United States] (distributed 9/18/07)

By Joyce Appleby: "Let's Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day," [Congress and the War in Iraq] (distributed 9/5/07)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "Avoiding Market Meltdowns," [The importance of government management of the economy] (distributed 8/19/07)

By Catherine Allgor: "The Power of the Pedestal," [Lady Bird Johnson: An Appreciation] (distributed 7/17/07)

By Joyce Appleby: "When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right," [Brown v. Board of Education and Williams v. California] (distributed 7/10/07)

By Thomas A. Foster: "Hatred Aimed at Gays Hurts All," [Homophobia in historical context] (distributed 7/5/07)

By Elliott Young: "The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers," [The federal government's role in controlling laborers] (distributed 6/30/07)

By John Fea: "Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions," [The role of religion in American politics] (distributed 6/9/07)

By Nancy C. Unger: "Passive Citizenship is Not Enough," [The lesson of the Progressives] (distributed 5/29/07)

By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "Survivor: The Chinese Communist Party," [The world's last major Communist nation] (distributed 5/23/07)

By Todd DePastino: "A Day for Remembering -- and Accepting Responsibility," [Lucian Truscott's 1945 Memorial Day speech] (distributed 5/12/07)

By Jeremy Cameron Young: "France Views America: Friend, Rival, or Both?" [Franco-American relations since 1776] (distributed 5/1/07)

By Daniel Gordon: "Theater of Cruelty," [The national debate on abortion] (distributed 4/25/07)

By Michael Punke: "Why the Buffalo Still Roam," [George Bird Grinnell as a model for today's environmental movement] (distributed 4/17/07)

By Steven Conn: "Why the Great Plains Are Dying," [John Wesley Powell's unheeded warnings about the environment] (distributed 4/16/07)

By William C. Kashatus: "Living Up to Jackie Robinson," [Jackie Robinson compared to modern baseball players] (distributed 4/11/07)

By Jonathan Goldstein: "A Peace Plan That May Be Worse Than War," [The Saudi Plan for peace in Israel] (distributed 3/22/07)

By Steve Estes: "Time to Ask and Tell!" [Gay veterans from World War II to the present] (distributed 3/15/07)

By Nancy C. Unger: "It's Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter," [Frank Kameny, gay rights pioneer] (distributed 2/27/07)

By Randal Maurice Jelks: "Memorandum to Sen. Obama: How to Run," [The lessons of Harold Washington's political career] (distributed 2/20/07)

By Matthew Pinsker: "Coming: Something New in Presidents," [How the leading candidates differ from past White House occupants] (distributed 2/15/07)

By John R. Bawden: "The Costs of Intervention," [Iraq and American intervention in Nicaragua in the 1920s] (distributed 1/17/07)

By Randal Maurice Jelks: "Martin Luther King's True Legacy: Revolutionary Ideals," [The radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr.] (distributed 1/8/07)

By Christopher Bates: "Will Vindication Elude Ford?" [The legacy of Gerald Ford] (distributed 12/28/06)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "President Bush at His -- and Our -- Crossroads," [The stubbornness of Andrew Johnson and George Bush] (distributed 12/19/06)

By Derek Catsam: "In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society," [P. W. Botha, Augusto Pinochet, and the importance of truth commissions] (distributed 12/17/06)

By Jonathan Goldstein: "In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope," [The potential for peace in the Middle East] (distributed 12/16/06)

By Jeff Mankoff: "The Perils of Breaking Away," [Kosovo, Iraq, and the difficulties in creating a new nation] (distributed 12/15/06)

By David Kaiser: "Is Iraq Vietnam?" [The challenges of nation-building] (distributed 12/7/06)

By Nikolas Kozloff: "An End to Interventionism in Venezuela," [America's history of interference in Venezuela] (distributed 12/1/06)

By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "Kentucky Fried Globalization," [The complexities of the spread of American culture abroad] (distributed 11/27/06)

By Steven Conn: "Democrats -- the Party of Disorder, and Achievement," [The history of Democratic lawmaking] (distributed 11/21/06)

By Derek Catsam: "The Unpredictability of an Unhappy Electorate," [The precedents for and meaning of the recent elections] (distributed 11/15/06)

By Robert E. Bonner: "Tributes of Silence, the Honor of Words," [Re-imagining Veterans Day] (distributed 11/8/06)

By Jonathan Coopersmith: "Who Will Pay for Iraq and When?" [How the United States has borne the cost of its wars] (distributed 11/2/06)

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