This may be the one moment where we can say that the incoming Office of Policy Planning at the State Department, as a whole, guest-blogs for TNR. (Officially staffed, as it is currently, with just two people.)
Laura Rozen writes that Derek Chollet has been tapped as Anne-Marie Slaughter's deputy at that office. Here he is on The Plank hailing the capture of Radovan Karadzic, discussing the Obama-Biden foreign policy worldview, rating Obama's convention speech, and fisking Bob Woodward.
--Barron YoungSmith