Featured Articles — November 26, 2008

November 26, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Aboard:

The Battle for Minnesota Is Just Getting Started By John Fund
Al Franken demands to know the identity of every voter whose absentee ballot was rejected.

A Car Wreck Made in Washington By Holman Jenkins
Can Democrats afford to let Detroit succeed?

The Harder They Fall by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Hugo Chavez’s dream of indefinite rule looks doomed.

Obama’s Foreign Policy: Buying in at the Bottom by Robert D. Kaplan
“George W. Bush … has poised America for a diplomatic rebound, which the next administration will get the credit for carrying out.”

Will Obama Opt For Pragmatism In Energy Policy? By Mort Kondracke
President-elect Barack Obama is proving to be remarkably pragmatic and centrist as he tackles the global economic crisis. Big tests are yet to come on energy, however.

Geithner, Summers And Romer By Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein
What does the Obama team have in store for us?

Russia, China, Move In on Latin America By Peter Brookes
Today’s arrival of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on a two-day visit to Venezuela to meet with President Hugo Chavez is a stark reminder that potential problems aren’t always “Over There.”

All Fall Down By Thomas Friedman
I spent Sunday afternoon brooding over a great piece of Times reporting by Eric Dash and Julie Creswell about Citigroup. Maybe brooding isn’t the right word. The front-page article, entitled “Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk,” actually left me totally disgusted.

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