Hillary Clinton crossed a line when she said that she's more electable than Barack Obama because she has more support from "hard-working" white Americans, said Joe Conason in Salon. Clinton’s comments may be “politically incorrect,” said Patrick Buchanan in RealClearPolitics, but they’re “also patently true" . . .
Should Zimbabwe’s opposition agree to a run-off?
Zimbabwe's opposition must participate in a run-off election if it wants to get rid of Robert Mugabe, said The Christian Science Monitor. You "can't win" a vote you boycott. There’s little point in holding a second-round vote as long as “Mugabe’s campaign of terror against the people of Zimbabwe continues unchecked,” said The Washington Post . . .
Will Myanmar’s junta leaders be swept aside in the storm's aftermath?
Optimists hoped leaders in Myanmar, or Burma, would start cooperating more with the outside world to save survivors of Cyclone Nargis, said The Wall Street Journal, but that looks less likely every day. Watch as the "despots get shoved aside," said the San Francisco Chronicle . . .
AIG’s Losing Hand, Oil’s Royal Flush
AIG loses $7.8 billion as bets on complex financial instruments sour. Oil hits a new high, and analysts try to explain why. And the down economy pulls the plug on some nascent attempts at creative advertising.
Best Columns: Bouncing inflation, Fretting credit
Inflation is like that “boor” who barges into “the hottest restaurant in town without a reservation,” says Michael Sesit in Bloomberg. Everyone’s worried about inflation, says Fortune’s Colin Barr in CNNMoney.com, but we face a “bigger problem” in the “credit crunch” fallout.
Clinton: Channeling George Wallace?
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Week of May 16
Controversy of the week
Eight Belles: Did the Derby contender have to die?
Main stories
Jobs decline, but less than expected
Talking points
Iraq: Five years after 'Mission Accomplished'
Best columns—International
The new way for the Kremlin to watch us
Business
Issue of the week: Why Microsoft gave up the chase for Yahoo
Film
Music
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week: Fish and chips: England's traditional fast food
Will R. Kelly finally face trial?
Left-wing bloggers ridicule the religious right. But the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an extremist they adore.
James Kirchick/New York Post
With ever more U.S. companies—Pepsi, Kraft, Dell—snaring Pentagon contracts, nearly every product in your pantry” is tied to the war.
Nick Turse/Los Angeles Times
Society expects women to be supermoms, but as we strive to be “perfect mothers, we have become isolated and powerless.”
Em Hunter/The Christian Science Monitor
Why Cameron Diaz doesn't want a boyfriend
