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2008 Articles Archive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Christopher Bates: "The Vice Presidency Should Not Be an Accident Waiting to Happen," [The importance of choosing the right vice-president] (distributed 9/24/08)

By Carl Abbott: "The Real West Is an Urban West," [The mythology and the fact of the American West] (distributed 9/29/08)

By Nancy C. Unger: "Why McCain and His Running Mate Demand Special Scrutiny," [The health risks of the presidency] (distributed 10/8/08)

By Jessica M. Lepler: "The Bank Crisis Blame Game, Then and Now," [The lessons of the Panic of 1837] (distributed 10/15/08)

By Andrew M. Schocket: "The Bailout: A Far Cry from Socialism," [History of the relationship between the American government and banks] (distributed 10/16/08)

By Robert S. McElvaine: "This Year's Equation: 1920 + 1932 = 2008," [Is 2008 a realigning election?] (distributed 11/2/08)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "The Strong Wind at His Back," [The Obama election in historical context] (distributed 11/4/08)

By Joel K. Goldstein: "Why the Sarah Palin Gamble DidnŐt Pay Off," [The importance of "presidential" vice-presidents] (distributed 11/12/08)

By Thomas A. Foster: "Voting Away Others' Rights," [California's Proposition 8 and the separation of church and state] (distributed 11/13/08)

By Ralph E. Shaffer: "Back When a Socialist Was a Socialist," [The empty rhetoric of the 2008 campaign] (distributed 11/19/08)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "Republicans Should Look Back to the Future," [Eisenhower as a model for the Republican Party] (distributed 11/22/08)

By Ira Chernus: "Picking Up Where FDR Left Off," [Fighting worldwide poverty] (distributed 11/23/08)

By John Paul Rossi: "Another Great Depression?" [The similarities between 1929 and 2008] (distributed 11/27/08)

By John A. Moore, Jr. and Ralph E. Shaffer: "Diplomatic Advisers: Washington, Kennan, FDR," [Surveying successful foreign policy approaches] (distributed 12/22/08)

By Kenneth Weisbrode: "Who Can Write Obama's History?" [Presidential biographies] (distributed 12/25/08)

By Eileen Boris, Lisa Levenstein and Sonya Michel: "A New New Deal Must Be For All," [FDR neglected women, Obama should not] (distributed 12/29/08)

Pictured at top (left to right): Pictured at top (left to right): Pope Urban II orders the First Crusade, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sacajawea, William Jennings Bryan, part of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Bill Gates.