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In a new Daily Beast column, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s daughter Elizabeth gives her report on yesterday evening's White House event. After starting off poorly by calling Sgt. Crowley "infamous", Gates adds: READ MORE >>

If you're trying to make sense of what's going on up on Capitol Hill with health care (why are House liberals pissed, why the hell is it taking Baucus so long to get the Finance Committee to produce a bill, etc.) read this dispatch from Jon Cohn. It's the best explanation of the current state of play that I've seen. --Jason Zengerle READ MORE >>

The Middle’s Man: Has Obama Abandoned His Campaign Promises? by Ed Kilgore Merce Cunningham (1919-2009): The North Star Who Couldn’t Stop Moving, by Jennifer Homans READ MORE >>

At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Sudan, questions came up about an open disagreement between General Scott Gration, Obama's Darfur envoy, and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, over whether Sudan is currently committing genocide. READ MORE >>

The UN takes what would appear to be an interesting step, with American backing: The Obama administration is supporting moves to implement a U.N. doctrine calling for collective military action to halt genocide.... READ MORE >>

Today, Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which calls for eliminating discrimination against disabled persons and promoting their full participation READ MORE >>

The Obama White House bills visiting CEOs for lunch. --Michael Crowley READ MORE >>

This is the top story in tomorrow's Times Of India: US Bails out India From Balochistan Wrangle Pakistan has not provided any evidence to the United States of India's involvement in the insurgency in Balochistan, and Washington attaches no credibility to Islamabad's charges in this regard, a top US official has indicated. ... READ MORE >>

Simon Johnson, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, explains why mortgage servicing companies are still making money off of struggling homeowners, and what--if anything--we can do about it. READ MORE >>

I really liked this NYT op-ed by Bill Wasik about how the Internet is the new New York City for certain aspirants to the creative class. As someone who moved to NYC after college and then left three months later--I realized I liked visiting NYC, not living in it--I wonder if my general reluctance to embrace the Internet as a writing medium isn't in some way related. READ MORE >>