Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, December 19, 2011 Kim Jong Il Dies From 'Great Mental And Physical Strain' BOOKS HuffPost's Latest e-Book: Beyond the Battlefield: The War Goes on for the Severely Wounded TECHNOLOGY Marcin Jakubowski On The DIY Civilization POLITICS Bad News For Newt SPORTS Patriots Dominate Tebow TECHNOLOGY Twitter Gets HUGE Investment BLOG POSTS Robert Redford: Congress and Keystone XL: A National Disgrace Let's be clear about the purpose of this move. It's a naked political stunt designed to hurt the president in an election year. Questlove: What Is Soul?: Hamhocks, Cornflakes & Divas What is Soul? That's a big question that The Roots asked ourselves a lot while we were working with lots of other music lovers on VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul -- a show you can and should see tonight for yourselves. Michael Moore: A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse When anyone asks me, "Who started Occupy Wall Street?" sometimes I say "Goldman Sachs" or "Chase" but mostly I just say, "Bradley Manning." It was his courageous action that was the tipping point. Sam Gellman: Traveling Through Kim Jong Il's Austere And Extravagant North Korea (PHOTOS) Now that Kim Jong Il is dead, I wonder how long the alien world that I found in North Korea will continue to exist. Menachem Rosensaft: Ron Wyden: Forging Common Ground on Medicare Reform The Ryan-Wyden Medicare reform plan may well be less than perfect. But we know that all or nothing will in the end get us nothing. Ron Wyden and Paul Ryan deserve praise, not scorn, for at least trying to chart a path out of the quagmire.

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