CAN'T TRUST THAT DAY:
* Marc Lynch on how the UN failed Syria.
* Here's a hint: no one likes using food stamps, but a lot of families need them.
* In favor of more debates.
* Progress in Brazil is leaving the poor behind.
* Good read: a guide on how to get Planned Parenthood out of the abortion business.
* Boo. NASA likely to bail on the joint Mars mission.
* Recovering a lost speech by Malcolm X, fifty years later.
* Good read, even if you skipped the halftime show: Madonna at 53.
* Using Downton Abbey as a lens for examining modern America.