Worth reading

• Lydia Polgreen and Marlise Simons on the debate over whether an ICC indictment of Sudan's president is a good idea (NY Times). Edward Luttwak and Marian Tupy on why aid for Africa is bad (L.A. Times). Academics debate the implications of ethnicity for state-building (Foreign Affairs).

• Robert Dreyfuss on Obama's foreign policy (Nation). Tim Dickinson on Obama's advisers (Rolling Stone)

• Walter Russell Mead on why America supports Israel (Foreign Affairs). Eva Bellin on democracy promotion in the Middle East (Foreign Affairs). Thomas Powers on Iran (NY Review). Jonathan Freedland on Christopher Hitchens on Iraq (NY Review)

• Bob Moser on the bluing of Texas politics (Nation). David Rieff on the bluing of Miami's Cuban-American politics (NY Times). Deepa Fernandes on Bobby Jindal (Nation).
  

• Scott Anderson on suicide (NY Times)

• Elizabeth Kolbert on carbon emissions (New Yorker)

• An excerpt from J.G. Ballard's autobiography (Harper's, w/sub)