There once was a newspaper I read/It would make steam come out of my head/And while I don't like to boast/I'd guess that most/Of you know it's the Washington Post. Anne Applebaum: What we need is a new movement, on the scale of the anti-Apartheid actions, advocating for the rights of subjugated women in brutally patriarchal countries. The column does have some of the seemingly requisite shots at NOW and modern feminism, but balances that paragraph out with genuinely insightful musings on the American tendency to sympathize with human rights abuses that echo our own, and allow for retroactive absolution. Seth Berkley: To stop AIDS, we need a vaccine. And there's no reason to believe we can't develop one. The author is, to be sure, the head of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, so his call to focus more international resources on vaccine development isn't a shocker, but it's a worthwhile piece nonetheless. EJ Dionne: If Hillary Clinton is going to win Iowa, she's going to have to run a better campaign. Richard Cohen: I found this op-ed sort of confusing, it's something about change being a better political message than experience. But it did have the line of the day. "China is trying to buy up all the oil and gas in the world, and we would, too, but we can't afford it," writes Cohen. "I read somewhere that beggars in Morocco won't even accept the dollar." Yes. The Moroccan dirham is so strong that beggars check their currency valuation tables and reject proffered dollars. Seems unlikely, to be sure, but Richard Cohen read it somewhere. Eugene Robinson: If all baseball players are juiced, does it really matter?
