Politics

• Doug Muder, A State-by-State Update on Voter Suppression
• Brad DeLong, Halloween on the Prairie: Congressman Tim Huelskamp Is the Most Frightening Thing I Will See All Day
• Thomas Edsall, When Class Trumps Identity
• NY Times, Lhota as Manager – Swift Decisions and Long Weeks
• Charlie Pierce, Jon Chait Keystone Pipeline – Not Everything Is A Tactic
• Mike Konczal, Making government simpler is complicated

Health Care and the Politics Thereof

• Kevin Drum, Small Businesses Plan to Add Health Coverage For First Time in a Decade
• Austin Frakt, More on Senator Cruz’s health insurance
• Aaron Carroll, Government health care for all?!?!!
• Paul Waldman, Another Phony Obamacare Victim Story

Journalism

• Bill Keller, Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? (NY Times Former Editor Keller’s interview – via correspondence – with Greenwald)

Economics

• NY Times, In Fed and Out, Many Now Think Inflation Helps
• Linette Lopez, Goldman Sachs’ Massive Trading Error Bears A Scary Resemblance To The One That Brought Down Knight Capital
• Dean Baker, Quick, How Much is 5 billion in Germany Over the Next Fifteen Years (Note:  Math is particularly hard when you only have one of multiple numbers necessary to do the calculation.)

Environment

• NY Times, Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies

Higher Education

• Businessweek, University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley’s Canadian Feeder School
• NY Times, As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry

Guns

• Charlie Pierce, There Is Nothing Random About the LAX Shooting
• WISN, State lawmaker pulls school gun bill from committee vote

Syria

• NY Times, Syria Meets Deadline for Submitting Destruction Plan for Chemical Weapons
• NY Times, Syria Destroys Chemical Sites, Inspectors Say
• Reuters, U.S. suggests destruction unit for Syria’s chemical weapons
• NY Times, Stick Figures and Stunted Growth as Warring Syria Goes Hungry

Afghanistan

• NY Times, That Other Big Afghan Crisis, the Growing Army of Addicts
• iCasualties, U.S. Fatalities in and around Afghanistan
• Alarabiya.net, U.S. says deal needed ‘soon’ on post-2014 force in Afghanistan

Human Interest

• Obnoxious Boston Fan, Napoli roams Boston shirtless, tends bar, adds to legend of 2013 Red Sox (Note:  How could anyone not like this team?)
• Esquire, Best Whiskey Drinks and Cocktails – Whiskey Recipes for Fall
• Steve Solloway, Maine Deer Season Opens With Success