Some of the day’s best reads:
- Thomas Friedman sees opportunity in the oil crisis: “This oil spill is to the environment what the subprime mortgage mess was to the markets — both a wake-up call and an opportunity to galvanize a constituency for radical change that overcomes the powerful lobbies and vested interests that want to keep us addicted to oil.”
- Andy Rotherham comments on this weekend’s New York Times piece on charter schools: “[I]f you’re not convinced that education politics are completely screwed up and driven by turf and politics rather than outcomes consider that KIPP gets attacked for spending more money for the results it achieves rather than being held up as an example of how money matters in education and we ought to be spending more on poor kids.”
- Mark Kleiman looks at the Obama drug strategy leaked by Newsweek: “Is this the strategy that I would have written? Not by a long shot. But is it the best strategy produced since the process started in 1989? Incomparably. It deserved better treatment than Newsweek chose to give it.”
- Sarah Rahman and Mark Muro hail the administration’s i6 Challenge, a new innovation program: “In our view, the i6 Challenge is another step in Washington toward a nimbler, smarter new vision of national and regional economic steerage.”
- Google has announced that it is investing $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota.
