Leave a Comment

Transition News 12/01
The Stump — Susan Rice, Obama's pick for UN ambassador, wants "dramatic action" against genocide. Roger Cohen tells Hillary Clinton to show Israel some tough love. Politico assesses what the national security team says about Obama's governing style. WaPo lists the heavyweights who've already said no to Cabinet posts. How Obama could win early victories in Congress (hint: Arlen Specter). Fareed Zakaria explains how Obama could lead the world ...

Puzzle
Weekly Standard Blog — It's time to play Spot the Policy! The game is simple. First, read Fareed Zakaria's Newsweek cover story this week (guess who's on the cover?). Next, be impressed by sentences like "[Obama] must have his administration build a broader framework through which to view the world and America's relations with it" and "the objective of the United States should be to stabilize the current global order and to create mechanisms through which change - the rise of new powers, economic turmoil, the challenge of subnational groups like al Qaeda - can ...

Math Is Hard
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, December 03, 2008 [image] Math Is Hard [Ramesh Ponnuru] Or, at least, it gets harder for me the older I get. So I might be wrong about this, but on reading this passage from Fareed Zakaria I think he is making a mistake: Some have seized on the fact that emerging markets are slumping to argue that the era of Western dominance isn't over yet. But the rise of the non-Western world . . . is a broad and deep trend that is likely to endure. For some countries, the current economic crisis could actually accelerate the process. For the past two decades, for example, China ...