Scary News of the Day

Published October 1, 2007 3:26pm ET



It’s about Putin, and can be read here. Incidentally, this disturbing AP story–apparently Putin plans to become prime minister after leaving the presidency, thus mooting the importance of the presidency altogether and retaining his power–gives me the chance to link to David Remnick’s recent, informative portrait of Gary Kasparov in the New Yorker.