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• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s fighting words.

President Obama’s first State of the Union address came at the end of the most harrowing nine days of his young Administration. On January 19th, a Republican won the Massachusetts seat that had been held for nearly half a century by Edward M. Kennedy, thereby depriving the Senate . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Can nuclear power make a comeback?

Once the unpleasantness at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had had a little time to recede, America discovered that “the atom” wasn’t all bad. The bomb, yes—it was terrifying, as terrifying as a hundred 9/11s. American children got the wits scared out of them at school . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg:

On May 13, 1943, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The Allies suddenly found themselves saddled with nearly three hundred thousand prisoners of war, including the bulk of General Erwin Rommel’s famed Afrika Korps. Unable to feed or house their share, the British asked their American comrades to . . ....

• HID, Revolutionizing the World of Artificial Light

HID is an acronym for High Intensity Discharge, a phenomenon in which high amount of light is emitted by the electrical discharge of gases. This emitted light is three times more luminous than the one emitted by ordinary incandescent or halogen light....

• What’s Next for Health Insurance Reform?

The Senate and the House will try to reconcile their differing versions of health care reform when members of Congress return from their holiday break....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The Fifth War

In the sixty-four years since V-J Day, the United States has fought five wars big enough to be styled “major.” Two of these, Vietnam (1962-75, by the most common reckoning) and Iraq (2003-11, with any luck), were conceived in sin. Their beginnings were fatally compromised by . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Nobel Surprise

If President Obama really had to get a gift postmarked Scandinavia this month, he would probably, on the whole, have preferred the Olympics. At least at the Olympics the judges wait till after the race to give you the gold medal. They don’t force it on you while . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Lies

After the tea-partying, town-meeting-disrupting, pistol-packing mensis horribilis of August, more than a few commentators complained, as one of them put it, that “Obama should have seen it coming.” No one doubted that the current attempt to overhaul America’s uniquely wasteful and unjust . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama and the battle of the amendments.

There is the current crop of Ohio Republicans, and then there are those who art in Heaven. A specimen of the former, ultimate destination unknown, is Speaker of the House John Boehner, a perpetrator (and, arguably, a victim) of the terrifying debt-limit arson that his party, on fire with . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: A new history of Britain’s role in the American Civil War.

For the first fourscore and, oh, six or seven years after our fathers brought forth what they brought forth, the former owners of the new nation did not always regard it with the unmixed admiration and respect that the noisiest ex-colonists considered their due. From the beginning—from . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Who wants to bomb Iran?

When WikiLeaks dumped its first trove of purloined State Department cables on the world last week, Fast Company ran the whole thing through “a simple word cloud generator,” a computer application that uses different lettering sizes to depict the frequency with which specific words appear in a given . . ....

• Senate Nears Vote on Heath Reform

The Senate is nearing a vote on legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama vs. the spill.

For the young Presidency of Barack Obama, and for the nation, this hellish summer of discontent started in balmy spring, on the evening of April 20th, forty miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. At first, after the explosion aboard the giant oil rig Deepwater Horizon, the . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The letters of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Despite the well-established American loathing of politicians as a class, everything seems to get named after them. (Everything public, that is. In the private, semiprivate, and nonprofit sectors, marquees tend to feature big donors and, increasingly, big corporations. Citi Field, indeed.) Politicians who get elected President have pride of . . ....

• Health Reform Faces Difficult Senate Tests

The Senate is also working on a health bill, and, while it is similar in many ways to what House Democrats passed, some of the differences are fundamental....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a “word cloud,” graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding Web site was none other than www.whitehouse.gov, where, as . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a “word cloud,” graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding Web site was none other than www.whitehouse.gov, where, as . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Rick Perry’s Supreme Court idea.

After a hearty howdy, it was a long goodbye for Rick Perry. In mid-August, when the square-jawed, tin-tongued governor of Texas rode into the race, he went to the head of the pack at a gallop. And a Gallup: in that poll, he instantly lassoed a third . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Did Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum in Iowa?

Last week, after the former governor of Massachusetts “defeated” the former senator from Pennsylvania in the Iowa Republican caucus, the commentariat was faced with a conundrum. We know who “won,” but who really won? The tally was as close to a tie as has ever been . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: What were the voters thinking?

Barack Obama had the mot juste last Wednesday for what had just befallen him and his party: a “shellacking.” The President’s choice of word was one syllable (and one “g”) longer than his predecessor’s summary after a parallel midterm debacle. But, then . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The G.O.P.’s best hopes in the 2012 Presidential election.

It was a chilly winter for Barack Obama, politically speaking. For six months, he and his party shivered under the avalanche that had buried them in November’s midterm election while Republicans disported themselves on the partisan ski slopes, pausing only to throw snowballs, some of them dirty, and . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Biggus Buckus

REG : All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?ATTENDEE: Brought peace?—“Monty Python&#8217 . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Trash talk from the 2008 campaign.

8220;Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (Harper; $27.99), has come along just in time. The nation’s political and political-commenting classes, whose nervous systems atrophy without a reliable supply of . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Sexual abuse and the Catholic Church.

On October 31, 1517, a Roman Catholic priest and theologian, Dr. Martin Luther, put the finishing touches on a series of bullet points and, legend has it, nailed the result to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany—the equivalent, for the time and place, of uploading . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Do Americans hate soccer?

Do Americans hate football? Not regular football, of course. Not football as in first and ten, going long, late hits, special teams, pneumatic cheerleaders in abbreviated costumes, serial brain concussions—the game that every American loves, apart from a few, uh, soreheads. Not that one. The other one. The . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The Afghanistan strategy.

There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom—the reigning cliché—happens to be true. President Obama did not pretend otherwise in his address at West Point last . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Why voters will blame Obama.

Franklin Roosevelt was a lucky man and, in 1932, a lucky candidate. Start with the name—or, as today’s political marketers would say, the brand. F.D.R.’s name paired that of the twinkly, kindly philosopher of the American Revolution—the Uncle of His Country&#8212 . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama and the left.

8220;All violent feelings have the same effect,” John Ruskin wrote, in one of his most famous essays. “They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic Fallacy.’ ” Ruskin published “Of the . . ....