by Stephen of the Thinkery

Okay, this is really something. Mia Farrow wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about the situation in Darfur. In it she publicly called for Stephen Spielberg to take action about the genocide happening there.

What could Spielberg have to do with it? Quite a bit, it seems, since he is an “artistic adviser to the Chinese government for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

It’s clear now, right?

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.