Economics
- The Economist, The origins of the financial crisis: Crash course
- Mark Thoma, 10 Real and Bogus Reasons for the Slow Recovery
- Brad Plumer (Wonkblog), This is how everyone’s been doing since the financial crisis
- Mark T. Williams (Cognosenti), How To Prevent The Next Global Financial Crisis
- Paul Krugman, What Defunding Means
Politics
- ThinkProgress.com, Fox News Pundit Shuts Down Network’s Hysteria Over Benghazi: ‘It’s Gone, Baby. It’s In Your Head’
- Chris Cilliza, The least productive Congress ever
- Paul Krugman, The Wonk Gap
- Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein, “Brighter future for politics and policy requires a different Republican Party”
- Robert Reich, Happy Birthday Occupy (related)
Science and Environment
- opposingviews.com, Michael E. Mann, Top Climate Scientist, Can Proceed WIth Libel Suit Against Right Wing Blogs, Judge Rules
- Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy blog), Deniers, disgust, and defamation
- Brad Plumer, We’ve covered the world in pesticides. Is that a problem?
- NY Times, In a Breathtaking First, NASA Craft Exits the Solar System
- NY Times, The Pop! of the Wild
Surveillance
- Matthew Green (A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering blog): On the NSA
- boston.com, Google loses appeal in Street View snooping case
Miscellaneous
- Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, US Embassy Kabul Attack Anniversary – The Anniversary Of The Day My Wife Was Attacked
- Nation of Change, Largest Gun Study Ever: More Guns, More Murder