• The Big Picture: Memorial Day, 2009. Moving collection of photos.
• James Fallows: On Memorial Day. On the Map of the Fallen project, an overlay for Google Maps with information on the American soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Michael Lewis: The Master of Money. A review of Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett.
• Wall Street Journal: Obama Is Changing the Art on the White House Walls. An interesting look at the impact of Presidential taste in art.
• Financial Times: Argentina: The superpower that never was. Speculation as to why the fortunes of America and Argentina diverged so greatly over the course of the twentieth century.
• PSD Blog: The verdict is in on microfinance. The headline is provocative and I think overstates the case. However, it appears that material gains from microfinance are not leading directly to gains in other aspects of human development.
• National Journal Online: Chopra Wants To ‘Productize’ Innovations. What the federal CTO is working on.