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The must-read stories from around the web and in today’s papers:
- NYT wunderkind Ross Douthat is on a quest to save intellectual conservatism. [Mother Jones]
- Petraeus: Afghanistan war will take longer than Iraq. [The Sunday Times]
- As health care and financial reform battles loom, will Obama step up and fight? [MoJo]
- Another revelation from ’08 tell-all Game Change: How McCain-Palin almost lost Alaska. [MoJo]
- After Senator-elect Scott Brown’s victory, the GOP lures new candidates for fall elections. [NYT]
- The UN wants to drop Taliban members from terror list to pave the way for negotiations. [NYT]
- Democrats are exploring ways to blunt the Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling. [WSJ]
- Wall St. bankers could use Davos forum to lobby against Obama’s reforms. [Financial Times]
- Will the housing market still stand after the government’s support ends? [WaPo]
- A glimpse of US commandos training Yemeni forces in the fight against al Qaeda. [Global Post]
- Should Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner be the first casualty of Obama’s political debacle? [The Nation]
- A year in, inside the head of the US’ Problem-Solver-in-Chief. [WaPo]
- US soldiers struggle to help rebuild a devastated Haitian landscape. [Christian Science Monitor]
