There's plenty of interesting new articles online. Here are a few:
Fortune has a piece by Clay Chandler on Disney's plans for China: Mickey Mao. "The Magic Kingdom meets the Middle Kingdom, as Disney sets its sights on China. But for new chief Robert Iger, who has been leading the charge, wishing on a red star could be a risky strategy.''
Timothy Garton Ash and Timothy Snyder write about Ukraine's Orange Revolution in the latest New York Review of Books. This issue also has a good piece on A New Lebanon? by Max Rodenbeck.
In Taking Faith Seriously, Mike Gecan writes in The Boston Review about how contempt for religion is costing Democrats more than votes.
Robyn Meredith chronicles the emergence of a new wave of offshoring bound for Asia in The Next Wave of Offshoring in the Far Eastern Economic Review. (Hat tip to Prudent Investor).
Slate.com has two pieces on Saul Bellow. Clive James, Dave Eggers, and other novelists and critics remember an American master. And Elisabeth Sifton recounts editing Saul Bellow.
Today's The Sunday Times prints extracts from biographer Anthony Seldon's book Blair. The article, entitled The long goodbye, argues that "Blair has wasted his first two terms through caution and incoherence. Retirement is on hold while he seeks glory in a third".
Meanwhile in the Sunday Times Magazine Christine Toomey's report, Ailing and isolated, explains how "46 years on, Cuba's communist regime lies in tatters amid increasing poverty and corruption. One day Castro will be gone - but the future could be even more frightening."
Writing in Observer Magazine, Tim Adams journeys into the hearts, and minds, of Middle England: this green and pleasant land.
Finally, the New Yorker has a thoughtful review by John Cassidy of Jeffrey Sachs new book The end of poverty.
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