Foreign Policy Magazine

According to a heavily embargoed press release from The Washington Post Company's reps, the company has acquired Foreign Policy, the magazine and Web site formerly owned by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

FP will become part of The Slate Group, which recently launched The Big Money, a business site.

Why this news is embargoed until approximately 3 P.M., we have no idea, but the release is after the jump.  read more »

On the eve of the five year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, William Dobson of Foreign Policy magazine has a front-page article [subscription only], saying that, in some sense, we are back to Sept. 10, 2001.

"If you were in either of the two cities that were attacked on September 1, you might have picked up a copy of one of the daily newspaper. The headline of one story in the Washington Post read, "Israeli Tanks Encircle a City in West Bank." The front page of the New York Times led with a story headlined, "Scientists Urge Bigger Supply of Stem Cells." Inside the appear, readers might have also noticed a small item that read, "Iran: Denial on Nuclear Weapons." The headlines on that morning - before the world learned of the attacks - suggest that our pre-9/11 preoccupations are certainly not that different from those we carry today."

I'm guessing that Rudy Giuliani, at least, disagrees.

-- Azi Paybarah

Hillary Clinton's people were spotted making their way up 43rd Street, presumably to make their case to the New York Times editorial board. (Debates? What debates?)

The ever-compassionate Rudy Giuliani campaigns with George Allen, the guy who made some insensitive remarks earlier.

Bob Kerrey of the New School told Foreign Policy magazine the Iraq War is "not as likely to galvanize a large audience the way the Vietnam War did."

Hotline ranks the dumbest, poorest and fattest states.

Joshua Marshall notes the congressman who funded the bridge to nowhere is worried about how much it'll cost to have more transparency in congress.

Carl McCall is expected to endorse Yvette Clarke.

Brooklyn Assembly candidate Bill Batson discusses clara-bortions with a Brooklyn newspaper.

Al Gore isn't doing the MoveOn.org event tomorrow.

And Sean Maloney shows off a high-arch fast ball from Monday's S.I. Yankee game.  read more »

-- Azi Paybarah