Must Read
- Scott Beauchamp, The Military: An Alternative to the Brutalities of the Modern Economy
- Chris Dillow, On counter-advocacy
- Johnny Sanphillippo, Enough
Should Read
- Margot Sanger-Katz (NYT), Even Insured Can Face Crushing Medical Debt, Study Finds
- Janna Malamud Smith, The Importance Of Public Spaces In A Fractured World
- Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, Here’s what’s happening in 2016
- Erik Cameron, Preserving Disorder: On Being Held at Gunpoint by Chicago Police
- Tim Egan (NYT), Crackpots in Cowboy Hats, and in Congress
- driftglass, Conservative Farmers Despondent Over Bumper Crop of Conservatism
Oregon
- Mike the Mad Biologist, The Phrase You’re Looking For Is ‘Seditious Conspiracist’
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, Eastern Oregon Ranchers Convicted of Arson Resentenced to Five Years in Prison
- Matt Novak, Oregon Was Founded As a Racist Utopia
- Eugene Robinson, The Oregon standoff and America’s double standards on race and religion
Health and Health Care
- Noam Scheiber (NYT), Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Colistin Resistance Is Now Linked to Carbapenem Resistance: We Failed
Politics
- Robert Kuttner, Democracy Trumped
- Norm Ornstein, The Eight Causes of Trumpism
- Domenico Montanaro, Is Ted Cruz Allowed To Run Since He Was Born In Canada?
- Dana Milbank, From Kim Davis to Oregon, the GOP’s love affair with lawbreakers
- driftglass, The Ongoing Adventures Of America’s Imaginary Reasonable Republican Party
- driftglass, Today In Strategic Forgettery: Ross Douthat
- driftglass, As His Batshit Chickens Come Home to Roost
- Down With Tyranny!, Elizabeth Warren And Chuck Schumer Will Have To Co-Exist
- Hamilton Nolan, Might a Money-Sucking Family Political Dynasty Be Problematic?
- Molly Ball, The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America
Finance
- Rich Yeselson, The Return of the 1920s
- PBS Frontline, Interview with Cathy O’Neil [Ed.: Her blog is Mathbabe]
- Harold Meyerson, How to End the Stock Buyback Deluge
Russia
- Tyler Rogoway, Coalition Jets Will Do Seemingly Anything To Stay Away From Russia In Western Syria
- Masha Gessen (NYT), Putin’s Year in Scandals
- Dominic Tierney, The Danger of Putin Losing in Syria
Math and Science
- Andrew Fogg, 20 Questions to Detect Fake Data Scientists
Too @#$%ed up for words
Ending on a Positive Note
- Emily Lakdawalla, [Mars Curiosity Rover] Mastcam self-portrait
- New England Historical Society, Seeing Boston By Streetcar on Film in 1906
- New York Times, 52 Places to Go in 2016