Hitchens on Oslo

David Leonhardt will be Washington bureau chief

Dean Baker on Obama's speech

Jared Bernstein blogs:

Also, we should implement this work sharing idea that Dean Baker’s been pushing for awhile.  What’s important about Dean’s take here is that he’s thought through some of the implementation challenges that keep employers from taking advantage of the option.  Remember, this is the main reason why German unemployment is back to pre-recession levels, even while their GDP losses were comparable to our own.