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2009

• Venezuela, Blackouts, and Hugo Chávez - November 16, 2009
• Claude Lévi Strauss (1908-2009) - November 9, 2009
• Afghanistan - November 2, 1009
• Reality TV - October 26, 2009
• Cooking and Food Culture - October 19, 2009
• The Nobel Prizes - October 12, 2009
• The Wizard of Oz - October 5, 2009
• Muammar el-Qaddafi - September 28, 2009
• Fashion - September 21, 2009
• Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month - September 14, 2009
• After 9/11 - September 8, 2009
• Senator Edward M. Kennedy, February 22, 1932 - August 25, 2009 - August 31, 2009
• Hawai`i Celebrates 50 Years of Statehood - August 24, 2009
• Woodstock, 1969 - August 17, 2009
• Reforming Our Health Care System - August 3, 2009
• Racism in America?- July 27, 2009
• Apollo 11, NASA, and a Walk on The Moon - 1969 - July 20, 2009
• Michael Jackson and Celebrity Culture - July 13, 2009
• Coup d'etat in Honduras - July 6, 2009
• Post-Election Protests in Iran - June 29, 2009
• Stonewall Riots of 1969 - June 22, 2009
• Periodic Table of Elements - Uub - June 15, 2009 (part 2)
• Anne Frank's 80th Birthday - June 15, 2009
• Tiananman Square - 1989 - June 8, 2009
• SCOTUS: Supreme Court of the United States - June 1, 2009
• Asian Pacific Americans - May 18, 2009
• US--Cuba Relations in 2009 - May 11, 2009
• Reproductive Technology - April 27, 2009
• Earth Day- April 20, 2009
• Social Networking Tools - April 13, 2009
• College Athletics - April 6, 2009
• Liberal Economic Backlash - March 30, 2009
• Star Trek - March 23, 2009
  
• Singularity University - March 16, 2009
  
• Demise of Newspapers? - March 9, 2009
  
• Coffee - February 23, 2009
  
• Food Safety 2009 - February 16, 2009
  
• Equity in the Workplace - February 9, 2009
  
• Labor Unions - February 2, 2009
  
• The White House - January 19, 2009
  
• 21st Century New Deal? - January 12, 2009
  
• Conflict in Gaza - January 5, 2009
  

In the News was on hiatus for part of the Fall semester.

2008

• Third Party Politics - September 15, 2008
  
• Presidential Campaigns - September 8, 2008
  
• Hurricane Katrina: Three Years Later - August 25, 2008 (Part I)
  
• Women's Right to Vote - August 25, 2008 (Part II)
  
• Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - August 11, 2008
  
• 2008 Summer Olympics - August 4, 2008
  
• The Banking Industry, Credit Crisis & Sluggish Economic Growth - July 28, 2008
  
• Nelson Mandela - July 21, 2008
  
• Native Americans & the Longest Walk 2008 - July 14, 2008
  
• The Auto Industry - July 7, 2008
  
• Second Amendment - "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms..." - June 30, 2008
  
• Alternative Energy - June 23, 2008
  
• Juneteenth - June 16, 2008
  
• Media Reform - June 9, 2008
  
• Democratic Presidential Race - June 2, 2008
  
• Ian Fleming - May 27, 2008
  
• Same-Sex Marriage - May 19, 2008
  
• Burma/Myanmar - May 12, 2008
  
• Plagiarism - April 28, 2008
  
• Food Riots & Soaring Food Prices - April 21, 2008
  
• Zimbabwe - April 14, 2008
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) - April 4, 2008
• Tibet - March 24, 2008
  
• Winter Soldier 2008 - March 17, 2008
  
• 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards - March 10, 2008
  
• William F. Buckley, Jr. (11/24/25 - 2/27/08) - March 3, 2008
  
• Internment of Japanese Americans - February 25, 2008
  
• Food Safety - February 18, 2008
  
• Electronic Surveillance - February 11, 2008
  
• Kenya - February 4, 2008
  
• Indonesia under Suharto (1921-2008) - January 28, 2008
  
• "Weakening of the Economic Outlook" - January 22, 2008
  
• Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp - January 14, 2008
  

2007

• Bhopal Disaster (12/3/1984) - December 3, 2007
• Holiday Shopping/Spending - November 26, 2007
• Writers Guild of American Strike - November 5, 2007
• Baseball - October 29, 2007
• Global Warming & Climate Control - October 22, 2007
• Blackwater USA, Mercenary Troops & the "War on Terror" - October 12, 2007
  

 

 

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