Council on Foreign Relations

Arab News (Saudi Arabia)

• In an editorial on an Israeli announcement of 100 new houses in a West Bank settlement, the paper notes Palestinians called off the peace negotiations briefly earlier this year in response to settlement construction and suggests they should think of doing the same again.

Christian Science Monitor

• On the day before the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, Governor Edward G. Rendell writes that Hillary Clinton is best prepared to be the commander in chief of the military and steward of the U.S. economy starting on Day 1. 

Daily Telegraph

• Columnist Janet Daley says the primary in Pennsylvania is going to be a telling indication of how much damage has been done to Barack Obama by his disastrously misjudged comments about small-town Americans.

Financial Times

• Columnist Clive Crook writes of Hillary Clinton that the former first lady’s task in Pennsylvania of overturning her Democratic opponent’s lead looks impossible.
• In an editorial, the FT says that although Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rival are both strong contenders, the party should choose the latter because he is the better candidate.
• In a further editorial, the paper calls on the European Union for a flexible approach to energy security, in the face of the Kremlin’s ability to seek higher prices and better terms.
• Dominique Strauss-Khan, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, writes that although aid is the first step, the world must be bolder in tackling the long-term challenges of food supply.

Guardian

• Columnist Madeleine Bunting, writing on the food crisis and Africa, says there’s a danger that current political attention might lead only to short-term solutions, and what will get overlooked is the desperate urgency for major investment in sub-Saharan agriculture.
• Columnist Michael Tomasky says that alleged links Barack Obama and a radical black liberation group are scurrilous nonsense, but still they must be robustly refuted.

Hankyoreh (South Korea)

• In an editorial the paper says it believes Seoul and Washington came to a hasty agreement on imports of U.S. beef last week and that South Korea’s domestic beef market is feeling the effects.

Independent (London)

• In an editorial on pro-Chinese demonstrations in Europe, the paper says there’s evidence that this support has been mobilized by the Chinese government, saying this has distinctly sinister implications.  

International Herald Tribune

• In an editorial the paper describes as imperfect President Bush’s latest compromise on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, but says imperfect may be all one can expect after Bush wasted so much time refusing to consider any compromise at all.
• In a further editorial, the paper calls for the truth to be told about the Bush administration’s knowledge of the methods used to interrogate prisoners.

New York Times

• Op-ed columnist Paul Krugman poses the question: Will limited supplies of natural resources pose an obstacle to future world economic growth?
• Columnist William Kristol believes that Passover greetings issued last week by the three main candidates for the United States presidency offered a clear choice of worldviews.
• In an editorial on the so-called "Millionaires’ Amendment," the Times says the Supreme Court should uphold Congress’s modest effort to help candidates who rely on outside contributions to get their messages out to the voters.

News (Pakistan)

• In an editorial on a report released by a European Union mission which observed Pakistan’s elections in February, the paper says setting up an autonomous election commission, which can function free of executive control, is something all political parties must now work towards.

Times of India

• In an editorial on Zimbabwe, the paper says it is a curious fact that Robert Mugabe is not the only freedom fighter of his generation who has become a despot.

Times of London

• In an editorial, the paper says the Pope has shown himself worthy of his rapturous U.S. reception.
• Columnist Tim Hames invokes Gettysburg, saying Barack Obama has been the General Lee of the election campaign and that Hillary Clinton must hope that history repeats itself in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

Wall Street Journal

• Michael Barone of the American Enterprise Institute writes that Pennsylvania has been punching below its weight in presidential politics for a long time.
• John Engler, a former governor of Michigan, is amazed how some presidential candidates are blaming the North American Free Trade Agreement for U.S. job losses. Too bad they don't know that the growth in the deficit isn't due to manufactured goods, but to oil and gas imports, he writes.
• In an editorial decrying what it calls bio-foolishness, the paper says that the bulk of the increases in the price of basic staples can be attributed to the West's push to turn these crops into fossil-fuel replacements like ethanol.
• In an editorial in support of a new trade deal between the United States and South Korea, the paper says the deal will benefit a wide range of agricultural, manufacturing and services companies.

Washington Post

• Paula Dobriansky, a United States undersecretary of state who is meeting the Dalai Lama on Monday, writes that meaningful dialogue between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership is the only viable way forward.
• CFR senior fellow Sebastian Mallaby writes that while it feels awkward to admit the truth about the subprime meltdown, Congress produced a timely and well-crafted stimulus, and now it is working on proposals to help homeowners, which, with one ugly exception, are sound.
• Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl writes on how the global food crisis is creating trouble for dictators such as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
• In an editorial the paper says President Bush’s climate change goal announced last week is insufficiently ambitious, and he failed to endorse any mechanism to make even that goal come true.

Washington Times

• Ziad Asali of the American Taskforce on Palestine writes about what he calls the alarming new obstacles facing the quest for peace in the Middle East and the urgency with which they need to be addressed by all parties.
• Columnist Nat Hentoff believes the International Olympic Committee IOC is fast losing stature, endangering the credibility for years to come of its mission, as proclaimed in its charter, to promote "a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity."