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Powell’s former Chief of Staff: “The Vice President.” It’s essential that the entirety of this complicated story is widely understood, and I haven’t seen a more thorough explanation than Frontline’s The Dark Side. Watch it.
This man was protesting a bad call. Take that ref!
From the NYTs:
“I’m not an enthusiast for dynastic wealth, particularly when 6 billion others have much poorer hands than we do in life,” Mr. Buffett said at the New York Public Library, where he was appearing with Bill and Melinda Gates, the only Americans richer than he is.
Mr. Buffett said on Sunday that he would give away 85 percent of his fortune — about $37.4 billion worth of stock in Berkshire Hathaway, the company he runs — to five charitable foundations, with the greatest share, about $31 billion, going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to improving health and education, especially in poor nations.
Passport has more on what the money will be spent on.
Islamism is gaining power in Somalia. Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discussed the issue last week at bloggingheads.tv.
Matthew Yglesias has the details of why it is far worse than you could imagine.
One of the advantages of the internet is that archives catch fakers. [From Andrew Sullivan]
In case for some bizarre reason you read this space (all six of you) but not Kevin Drum, STOP IT. Read Kevin Drum. He’s very on point today with a post on gender inequality in education, the fall of union power over out of touch Ivy Leaguers, and the reason liberals need a healthy and passionate, not poisonous and divisive, public sphere. If my advice means anything to you, don’t ever come to this site without going to his first.
On Friday the Washington Post had a good article (and a great accompanying video) on the current presidential campaign in Mexico. The leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador is proposing a New Deal for Mexico and modeling himself after FDR. The NYTs describes the conservative candidate, Felipe Calderón, as “a respectable model of the Latin American colorless, Harvard-educated, pro-business candidate.” The LATs says Obrador is in the lead with only a week to go. If he wins, many will declare Latin America’s turn to the left complete.
From Matthew Yglesias:
I can think of no better illustration of why the right is never going to manage the terrorism problem effectively than to just encourage everyone to read this post on the Corner. Conservative insist on believing — contrary to all of the evidence — that jihadism isn’t a genuinely transnational non-state problem.