From Salon's blogs

• War Room

  Report: Obama to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan

  The president is reportedly close to providing his commander there almost all the new soldiers he'd requested

  Alex Koppelman

• Broadsheet

  Advice to GOP: Quit repulsing women

  If the Republican party wants to attract more female candidates and voters, not hating women would be a good start

  Kate Harding

• How the World Works

  Why can't Obama be more like Roosevelt?

  The call is sounding for a new jobs-creating WPA. But even FDR would have had trouble getting things done today

  Andrew Leonard