Today At Tnr (june 5, 2009)

• The Middle East's Uncertain Future: What's More Revealing--What Obama Said In Cairo, Or What He Didn't? by Robert Satloff

• The Competition Is Tough, But Francis Bacon May Have Been The Worst Painter Of The 20th Century, by Jed Perl

• When Porn Stars AREN'T The Answer: Steven Soderbergh's Newest Film--‘The Girlfriend Experience'--Is All Stunt, No Soul, by Christopher Orr

• As If There Weren't Enough Problems, The Middle East Is Literally Heating Up. Oy. by Bradford Plumer

• Disney's First Black Princess Is One Of The Most Soulfully Accurate Renditions Of A Black American In Animation History, by John McWhorter

• TNRtv: Why China Has Only Gotten Worse Since Tiananmen, by James Mann

• How Barack Talks Like Bush, Why Egypt May Have Been A Bad Choice Of Venue, And More: TNR's Complete Coverage Of Obama's Speech In Cairo

As always, be sure to check out the current issue of the print magazine, economic news on The Stash, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care at The Treatment, and Marty Peretz's The Spine. Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William Galston, Damon Linker, John McWhorter, and Alan Wolfe.