Corie Brown of the LA Times reports on the decision of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to “fight animal cruelty:”
If the plan is carried out as promised, it means no foie gras — fatty liver produced by overfeeding ducks and geese — would be served at Spago or any of Puck’s 14 other fine-dining restaurants. Spago’s […]

Like many other Latino leaders, Henry Cisneros served under President Clinton but is supporting Governor Richardson in the 2008 presidential race. The Walker Report posts photos of Richardson’s recent event in San Antonio - including the one above with Secretary Cisneros’ favorite candidate: City Council Candidate Mary Alice Cisneros.
Meanwhile, Stace of Dos Centavos posts about […]

Dan Balz of the Washington Post reports on a tiff at Harvard’s Institute of Politics:
A brewing argument over Iraq between the presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama broke into public view here Monday night when Clinton’s chief strategist challenged Obama’s credentials as a consistent opponent of the war.
Mark Penn and Obama […]

One of my brother’s best friends from his graduate school days at the University of Chicago is Sudhir Venkatesh. Sudhir was recently featured on NPR in a story about the underground economy in Manhattan:
Venkatesh says there are countless people like Sharelle in the inner city, scraping by on odd jobs. They make and sell box […]

Jonathan Kaplan of The Hill reports that Rep. Emanuel is urging newly elected members of Congress to steer clear of Colbert:
“He said don’t do it … it’s a risk and it’s probably safer not to do it,” said Rep. Steve Cohen. But the freshman lawmaker from Tennessee taped a segment that last week was featured […]

Some variation on the theme has been written a million different ways, so Michiko Kakutami is just the latest to make the point in her review of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s new book:

What this book does most strikingly is remind the reader just how drastically things have changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 […]

Peter Applebome of the New York Times reports on the experience of a Latino immigrant on Long Island:

Like a stranger in a strange land, Carlos Morales, a 26-year-old day laborer who came to Long Island six years ago from Mexico, is a perceptive observer of the suburban terrain where he works, goes to school and […]

David Brooks opines about the Democratic presidential primary in a column entitled “Neither Clinton, Nor Obama”:
Then Bill Richardson walked onstage. He was dressed differently — in slacks and a sports jacket. He told jokes that didn’t seem repeated for the 5,000th time. He seemed recognizably human, unlike some of his overpolished peers. He gave the […]