"Henry Kissinger Is Thus a Litmus Test for Foreign Policy"

"The sparring during Thursday's Democratic presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over whether Henry Kissinger is an elder statesman or a pariah has laid bare a major foreign policy divide within the Democratic Party.
"Clinton and Sanders stand on opposite sides of that divide. One represents the hawkish Washington foreign policy establishment, which reveres and in some cases actually works for Kissinger. The other represents the marginalized non-interventionists, who can't possibly forgive someone with the blood of millions of brown people on his hands."

Dan Froomkin at The Intercept argues that "Kissinger is an amazing and appropriate lens through which to see what's at stake in the choice between Clinton and Sanders."

"Hard to See and No Less Difficult to Imagine"

"The countless victims and occasional beneficiaries of Tambora's fury were oblivious to the volcanic roots of their circumstances, Dr. Wood noted, making the challenge of writing about it formidable and 'occasionally mind-bending.'

"More generally, he said, the revelation of global volcanic ruin—a portrait 200 years in the making—offers a kind of meditation on the difficulty of uncovering the subtle effects of climate change, whether its origins lie in nature's fury or the invisible byproducts of human civilization."

William J. Broad in The New York Times discusses the worldwide impact of the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora, "the most powerful volcanic blast in recorded history."

"Blood on His Hands"

Marilyn Berger in The New York Times reports the death of Indonesia's Suharto.