They’ll be mourning in every time zone, Bahrain and every Middle Eastern square mile included. I don’t doubt that more than a few muezzins in minarets across the Islamic world will also be humming their Jackson tunes between salat, their five required daily prayers. At least those muezzins worth their moonwalks. They didn’t call them the Jackson Fives for nothing.

• Nate Silver: The ayatollah’s flawed logic
• France and the new misogyny over veils
• Iran’s Red, Blue and Altered States
• John McCain vs. North Korea
• Obama’s ashen secrets
• Misinterpreting Obama
• Last stand for newsweeklies (except The Economist)
• Glenn Beck, hero?
• Yet another “shock breakthrough” in cancer

• Reza Aslan: Iran’s military coup
• “Extraordinary amount of wishful thinking” by US in Iran
• Obama finally fires Dennis Ross
• The end of Hezbollah’s veto power over Lebanon
• Gideon Levy on the fake Netanyahu “peace” proposal