Today’s must-reads:
- The Climate Countdown: Stop the dithering and give our kids a chance (MoJo)
- Bombings rock Baghdad‘s political landscape (WaPo)
- Nightmare on J Street: Why can’t Arab Americans work for peace, too? (Foreign Policy)
- Make your own MoJo cover (MoJo)
- Chris Cillizza, Harry Reid, and Lazy Conventional Wisdom (MoJo)
- From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)
- Dems push for benefits to kick in by 2010 (Politico)
- Jessica Valenti: Well, I’m damn sure never getting married again. (Feministing)
- Afghan insurgency given new life by their enemies (The Age)
- Pondering the future of StuyTown (MoJo)
- “By the half-hour mark he’s fought a samurai, wrestled a crocodile, and killed a vampire. Also: elephant surfing.” (Slate)
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