Week of April 29

• Featured Essay
  The Paris Commune of 1871 – Myth and Reality

  Mitchell Abidor

  Brooklyn-based writer and translator
• Current Affairs
  How Does the United States Make Religious Peace in Afghanistan?

  Wayne Te Brake

  Professor Emeritus of History at Purchase College, SUNY
• History Rediscovered
  New York, From a Balloon

  David T. Z. Mindich

  Chair of the journalism department at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University
• Politics
  Plugged and Abandoned Wells? Not A Problem-It’s the Orphans that the Federal Government Should Worry About

  Joseph Castillo

  Petroleum Engineer
• Books
  More Misandry, Please!

  Hannah Leffingwell

  PhD candidate in history, Institute of French Studies at New York University
• Our Columnists
  Are Liberals Hurting Children?

  Claire Potter

  Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
  We Still Need to Understand the Insurrection

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College
  Foxconn, Take Two

  Pat Garofalo

  Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project