Newsweek: "When the Taliban ran Afghanistan, they destroyed idols, refused to educate women, and even forbade kite-flying. After the Americans unseated them in 2001, Afghans slowly began recovering the basic freedoms that strict Sharia had denied them, though that liberty is still far from total."

AP: "Wary of slamming on the stimulus brakes too quickly but shaken by the European debt crisis, world leaders pledged Sunday to slash government deficits in the most industrialized nations in half by 2013, with wiggle room to meet the goal."

Washington Post: "They came here seeking refuge, but the past few years have brought unexpected hardship to the tightly knit Vietnamese fishing community."

Nicholas Kristof: "An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo."

Kathleen Parker: "That other women, such as Palin, want to reframe the abortion debate in new feminist terms, arguing that abortion hurts women and is, therefore, anti-woman, doesn't bother me a bit. And it shouldn't bother older-school feminists."

Ezra Klein: "Health-care reform, as you can see in the table atop this post, is comfortably popular with every demographic except for seniors. And seniors, of course, aren't opposed to government-run health care. They love their Medicare, and insofar as they have a policy concern here, it's that the Affordable Care Act will interfere with … Continue reading Affordable Care Act popular among everyone but seniors

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Rolling Stone: Here is the controversial article that created the big news of the day with some speculating that Stanley McChrystal might be on his way out.

Haaretz: "Three weeks after the violent incidents surrounding the Gaza-bound flotilla, Israel decided yesterday to dramatically ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip."

WSJ:  "But a visit to Angola's diamond heartland reveals that plenty of blood still spills over those precious stones."