Newsweek spokeswoman: “Tony Blair is an international figure and he’s an international story. Hence we put him on the cover of all of our overseas issues.”How important is Tony Blair in the United States? The Huffington Post picks up on Newsweek‘s decision to run Blair as a cover on every edition except the one published in the U.S. certainly tells a story.

But in fairness to Mr Blair, it isn’t quite the whole one. Newsweek in the U.S. is a lower brow, more human interest offering than its international incarnation. So putting “Men and Depression” on the front page across America is not quite the slap in the face the HuffPo portrays, and yet…