I’m on my way to New York to blog the Clinton Global Initiative for TWN and TPMCafe. Thanks to JI for sending this photo — which I offer you in humor. More later.

I just co-authored and published this piece on Japan’s recent Lower House elections which many argue is about reform of Japan’s massive postal agency, or “reform” in general. Andrew Oros and I argue that it’s all about the theatre of boldness — but rather than just looking tough, Japan really does want to be tougher….

Via Talking Points Memo, this interesting article published by Knight-Ridder finds that Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff may have been confused about his role in specifying the priority of national emergencies.

For those of you in Washington, D.C. on the 21st of September, feel free to join us for the follow-on conference to our recent mega-forum on new thinking about terrorism.

I should have written “The Globe’s Fragile Networks” above.

From Thursday through Saturday, I will be up blogging up a storm in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative, for which I just received my press credentials.

I can’t help but post this interesting commentary by the American Prospect‘s Mark Leon Goldberg who is writing and blogging from the corridors of the United Nations Millennium Summit. Read the whole piece, but for John Bolton fans: So far, John Bolton is all smiles as he wanders the hall from meeting to meeting.

A friend just sent me this astonishing weblink to the bin Laden file on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives and Terrorists Lists: USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE.

Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect, said it best about the conference Terrorism, Security and America’s Purpose: “This conference has gathered both wings of the political establishment and under that tent breaks taboo after taboo. . .Al Jazeera is in the room.

John Smith, an employee of the U.S. Department of Commerce, arrived at work last week, and he and all other of his fellow department colleagues had a voice mail from Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.