New York Times columnist Nick Kristof was detained by police while covering a protest in Bahrain on Friday. Kristof and his videographer, Adam Ellick,...

Proof there's hope. Nick Kristof walked the streets of Cairo for days, and writes of the needed paradigm shift in the attitudes of Americans regarding the Middle East.

Tom Friedman will realize that he's losing his success rate to the average stopped clock and retire to focus on writing non-political travel books. They will be very short. But somehow still turgid.

"People always ask, how do you do all this and stay married?" he said to the audience. Let's just say the books are easier to put to bed than the kids. "Books don't play you against each other."

From the Salt Lake Tribune this evening: Kristof: Think twice about moving to small-government conservatism Nicholas D. Kristof Sound famili...