Syria agrees to allow a UN team of experts access to the site of last week's alleged chemical weapons attacks.  US government officials says it's too little, too late. The Tunisian opposition is back in the streets and is again calling for the government’s resignation.  FP’s James Traub remains optimistic. Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.  The Atlantic examines why it’s so hard to find a copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech online, and The American Prospect has an excellent piece on the socialist roots of Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, and the original...

I still believe that some of Snowden's disclosures, and his actions, have forfeited his whistleblower status. But if he'd been a bit more circumspect about what he'd leaked and how he had done it--e.g., not brought US government secrets into the range of Russians and Chinese intelligence agents--that would emphatically not be the case. His disclosures have prompted chilling information about the activities of the NSA and forced a necessary public debate. Still, comparing Obama to Nixon based on current facts? That's unhinged. Nixon subverted the law and the Constitution in order to destroy...

Update on the international community's reaction to events in Syria: Russia calls on Assad to cooperate with the weapons inspectors. Says it has evidence the attack was propagated by the opposition. Pressure building in Washington and Europe to do something. Obama announces that the time frame for U.S. action  may have shortened. Kerry's diplomatic efforts.  Congressional doves rethinking Syria. The view from Ankara.  And Lebanon. Early analysis from the BBC of the video footage of the attacks. Syria Deeply has a discussion on possible intervention. One million Syrian children are refugees....