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
set aside part of the tax money that's supposed to be going to foreign assistance and using it for nothing but agriculture technology for third-world countries. it would be both inexpensive (as it's supposed to already have some money going to that use anyway) and an effective way to help the world. it isn't that america doesn't have needs; we definitely do, and we have to be careful with our country so that this doesn't happen to us, but at the same time, there are too many starving.
