* Jon Bernstein’s blog is now 2 years old. It is, pound for pound, the best blog by a political scientist writing about American politics. And one of your better blogs about American politics, period. Everyone should be reading it.
* Sarah Binder’s Spidey-sense is tingling. Uh oh.
* Seth Masket: Mickey Edwards might be right to dislike divisive partisanship, but his solutions won’t work.
* Anne-Marie Slaughter inaugurates Notes from the Foreign Policy Frontier at the Atlantic.
* Dan Drezner: Can an IR theory be killed? Really just another excuse for him to mention zombies.
* Shankar Vedantam channels polisci. Shorter version: it’s the institutions!