Economics

• Bob Kuttner, The Task Rabbit Economy
• Floyd Norris, The Guarantee That Banks May Fear to Invoke

Debt Ceiling and Government Shutdown

• Sean Wilentz, Obama and the Debt
• US Treasury, The Potential Macroeconomic Effect of Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship
• Mark Thoma, Inexcusable Republican Tactics Endanger the Economy
• Matthew Yglesias, It’s Actually Worth Reading Obama’s 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech

Health Care

• WBUR, Rising Number Of Western Mass. Vaccine Skeptics A Quandary For Doctor

Science

• NY Times, U.S. Nobel Laureates Worry About Future of Basic Science

The Republican Party

• Stan Greenberg, Inside the GOP: Report on focus groups with Evangelical, Tea Party, and moderate Republicans
• Thomas Edsall, Anger Can Be Power
• Michael Lind, Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right”
• Paul Krugman, They Have No Idea
• Greg Sargent, A clarifying moment of Washington dysfunction
• Bruce Bartlett, This Government Shutdown Will Defeat the GOP in 2014
• Adam Gopnik, The John Birchers’ Tea Party
• Joe Wurzelbacher, America Needs a White Republican President
• John Judis, GOP Death Watch: The Final Days of the Republican Party

The Democratic Party

• Matt Taibbi, Democrats Must Stop Ted Cruz’s Hollywood Ending
• Harold Meyerson, Two-Faced:  The Democratic Party’s Divergent Future

Human Behavior

• NY Times, Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate

Supreme Court

• NY Times, How Activist Is the Supreme Court?