Eat the View, which is currently in the lead in our online contest, is featured in today's Washington Post.
If Americans planted wartime victory gardens again, the argument goes,
Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
The President should issue an unequivocal Executive Order: No prisoner or detainee of any department, agency or contracted entity shall be tortured or mistreated, physically, psychologically or otherwise, or turned over to any other country without verifiable guarantees. All personnel acting under US authority, whether armed service, intelligence or contractor are obliged to report any instances of prisoner mistreatment to an executive-level ombudperson empowered to conduct a full investigation