From Salon's blogs

• War Room

  Steele says some white Republicans scared of him

  The Republican National Committee chairman puts his foot in his mouth, yet again

  Alex Koppelman

• Broadsheet

  Brazil's tempest in a minidress

  A scantily clad student causes a riot at a Sao Paulo university that results in her being expelled -- temporarily

  Julia Furlan

• 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