Must Read
- Sarah Scoville, Reflection: Visions of Home
- Bishop Desmond Tutu, We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet
- Joshua Holland, Obamacare Is Widening the Gap Between “Red” and “Blue” America
Should Read
- Elisabeth Rosenthal, Even Small Medical Advances Can Mean Big Jumps in Bills
- Sarah Kliff, Forget Obamacare: Vermont wants to bring single-payer to America
- Mary Williams Walsh, Thought Secure, Pooled Pensions Teeter and Fall
- Larry Summers, Now is the time to rebuild our national infrastructure
- Charlie Pierce, North Carolina’s Coal Ash Problem
Climate Change: Science
- RealClimate, Impacts of Climate Change – Part 2 of the new IPCC Report has been approved
- Joe Romm, Climate Change Drying Out Southwest Now, With Worse To Come For A Third Of The Planet
- Justin Gillis, U.N. Climate Panel Warns Speedier Action Is Needed to Avert Disaster
Climate Change: Politics
- Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Global Warming Scare Tactics
- Joe Romm, The Brutally Dishonest Attacks On Showtime’s Landmark Series On Climate Change
- Harvard Crimson, University Will Adopt UN-Backed Investment Principles, Launch New Climate Change Initiatives
- Harvard Faculty For Divestment, Moving Our Endowment Beyond Fossil Fuels
Energy and Environment
- Keith Bradsher, China Takes On Big Risks in Its Push for Shale Gas
- Ari Phillips, Chile Plans To Enact The First Carbon Tax In South America
- Katie Valentine, Butterfly Becomes Fastest Of Its Kind To Adapt To Climate Change
- Christina Sarich, World’s First Self-Cleaning Solar Park Debuts in Israel
- Road & Track, Mercedes E250 Diesel Gets Better MPG Than Toyota Prius
Politics
- Brad DeLong, Henry A. Wallace on the Triple Fascist Threat: Fascist Media, Fascist Monopolists, Fascist Bigots
- Democracy Now!, A Debate on Torture: Legal Architect of CIA Secret Prisons, Rendition vs. Human Rights Attorney
- Noam Scheiber, Bed wetting liberals: Democrats freak over setbacks, GOP doesn’t.
- Frances Robles and Eric Lipton, Political Ties of Top Billers for Medicare
- NY Times Editorial Board, Mr. Cuomo’s Gift to the Cynics
- Glenn Greenwald, Obama’s New NSA Proposal and Democratic Partisan Hackery
Obamacare
- Michael Shear, Sebelius Resigns After Troubles Over Health Site
- Jonathan Chait, The Obamacare Train Did Not Wreck
- Brad DeLong, What Might the Republican Health-Care Reform Endgame Be?
- Paul Krugman, Asymmetric Stupidity
Education
Baseball
- NY Times, Baseball, Anyone? Anyone?
- SoxProspects.com, System Restart 2014, Pt. 6: Mid-Minors Pitchers
Miscellany
- Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data
- Adam Nagourney, Report Finds Los Angeles at Risk of Decline
- Andrew Gelman, How literature is like statistical reasoning: Kosara on stories. Gelman and Basbøll on stories.