Smart women get real

Tina Brown had a great essay on Hillary Clinton, "Hillary and the 'Woman Thing,'" few days ago.  Having gone after the presidency -- the presidency -- with all her strength, and lost, she simply turned around and, Brown observes,  pressed "the reset button."

Hillary Clinton's Global Agenda

As many observed, Hillary Clinton's Africa trip flew mostly under the radar, emerging only with a gotcha moment when she snapped at someone asking about Bill (or they weren't asking about Bill, or they were asking about Bill after all, depending on which report you believe -- I've now typed his name three times as much as hers thus far, gosh, why does that happen?).

Clinton is doing something important, and new: placing women's concerns at the forefront of U.S. policy toward the world -- not just as "development," but as a formal part of economic and security policy.