From Foreign Affairs, Robert M. Gates on A Balanced Strategy: Reprogramming the Pentagon for a New Age (and a response by Fred Kaplan); Charles A. Kupchan (Georgetown): Minor League, Major Problems: The Case Against a League of Democracies; Stephen Sestanovich (Columbia): What Has Moscow Done? Rebuilding U.S.-Russian Relations; Barnett R. Rubin (NYU) and Ahmed Rashid (PCIP): From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Marc Lynch (GWU): Politics First: Why Only U.S. Withdrawal Can Spur Iraqi Cooperation; Ivo Daalder (Brookings) and Jan Lodal (Atlantic Council): The Logic of Zero: Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons; Paul Collier (Oxford): The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis; J. Brian Atwood (Minnesota); M. Peter McPherson (NASULGC), and Andrew Natsios (Georgetown): Arrested Development: Making Foreign Aid a More Effective Tool; and after the Crash: An article on helping the U.S. economy right itself. From McSweeney's, Jack Stuef on Niccolo Machiavelli to Nick Jonas the Magnificent. From PopMatters, the so-called “crazy cat lady” seems to be one of few sexist stereotypes that remains alive, well, and somehow immune to politically-correct backlash; and women lawyers, bankers, and presidents? Sure; women rockers? Not just yet.
