- Climate change has been absent in the US presidential campaign. Will superstorm Sandy change that?
- Britain's Institute of Arts and Ideas has video of a recent debate on 'the rise of the east', featuring an eminent cast.
- Epic own-goal: China's People's Daily tries to do a hatchet job on the NY Times, and comes unstuck. (Thanks Alistair.)
- Are China's nuclear weapons secure? The signs are good, says the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, but we know too little.
- Why is Russia re-arming, when it faces no threats? 'The drive for “greatness” is not only an inherent ambition of the nation’s leaders, but an inborn trait of most Russians...' (H/t Browser.)
- US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner won't attend the G20 Finance Ministers' meeting in Mexico next week. A bad sign for the G20, says Walter Russell Mead.
- Instagram has hosted some amazing images from the US superstorm. But some images emerging from the disaster may have been digitally altered (h/t TDW):
