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August 5, 2009

Today At Tnr (august 5, 2009)

Wolffe At The Door: The Radioactive Book Proposal From MSNBC’s Much-Maligned Pundit/Publicist, by Gabriel Sherman
Why Obama Should Not Waste His Time Speaking Directly To Israelis, by Shmuel Rosner
No, Obama’s Health Care Plan Will Not Kill Granny, Flood The Country With Illegal Immigrants, And Turn The U.S. Into Nazi Germany, by Ed Kilgore and Harold Pollack
Could Malcolm Gladwell Be More Wrong About ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’? by Isaac Chotiner
'Israel Is Real’ Sets Out To Be A History Of The Zionist Idea From The Second Temple To The Second Intifada. It Fails, by Adam Kirsch
Don't Forget About Iraq: Is The New Administration Prepared To Handle A Second--And Very Different--Civil War In Iraq? by Michael Crowley
Is Ben Nelson Really An Apostate, Or Is His Relentless Obstructionism Just One Big Prank? by Suzy Khimm

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