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Angwin's book is a tour through MySpace's turbulent adolescence. The site's massive growth made it an easy target for hackers, privacy advocates, parent groups, competitors and (fortunately for co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe) investors with fat checkbooks. But with its purchase by Rupert Murdoch's...
Even as Baucus works to bring Republicans on board, he will also have to deal with some of his fellow Democrats who are pushing to include health-care legislation in budget "reconciliation" - an aggressive maneuver that would mean it requires only 51 votes to pass the Senate, rather than the...
"Power is getting people or groups to do something they don't want to do," writes Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in his new book, Power Rules. It seems an aggressively simplistic thought for a member of the foreign policy priesthood. But Gelb doesn...
Gelb is at his best describing the three "demons" that render America's politicians congenitally foolish and unable to project power creatively - our tendency to turn principles into dogma, domestic political pressures, and the delusion that America can do anything. George W. Bush was badly boggled by all three. His...
But the real place to learn about North Korea is probably China. The country, especially the northeast, has the largest population of North Korean exiles and refugees. That fact was probably not lost on Lee and Ling. Many of the refugees get help from human rights groups. One such activist...