Foreign Policy Goes Glam

Increas­ingly, celebri­ties are tak­ing an active inter­est in polit­i­cal causes. Are they actu­ally mak­ing a dif­fer­ence? No doubt that celebri­ties can raise the pro­file of issues near and dear to their hearts. But high­light­ing a prob­lem is not the same thing as solv­ing it—on that score, the celebrity track record at affect­ing pol­icy out­comes is the same as the rest of us: mixed.