Recommended Reading

Fred Kaplan thinks Obama did a smart thing by axing George W. Bush's plan to deploy a missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. And not just because anything that makes John Bolton mad is probably the right course of action.

And while you're over in Slate territory, take a look at an article by Timothy Noah. He explains how he made a mistake in an online article and it wound up in Barack Obama's address to Congress.