Must Read
- Robert D. Kaplan, Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
- Mike the Mad Biologist, A New Year’s Wish For ‘Democratic Twitter’
Should Read
- Jamelle Bouie, John Kelly Was Always Just Donald Trump With Better Manners
- Katherine Stewart, Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus
- Eric Levitz, American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Myth
Worth Reading
- Gwynn Gifford, GM’s decline truly began with its quest to turn people into machines
- Matt Bruenig, Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
- Mike the Mad Biologist, TEH SOCIALISMZ!!! AAAIIIEEE!!!!
- Talia Lavin, As a New Yorker, I am many things
- Maura Healey, Young people provide inspiring example
- Denis McDonough, Can Congress Stop the Forever War? (“The Constitution Demands Oversight, and the American People Deserve It”)
- Katrina Forrester and Jedediah Purdy, Out from Emergency (“Today’s crises call on humanity to act collectively, but this possibility seems more and more remote. How do we break the cycle? A dialogue.”)
- Brian Maffly, 10 years after he monkey-wrenched a Utah oil and gas lease auction, Tim DeChristopher is ‘feeling demoralized’ by ‘the state of the world’ but sees hope in humanity
Ending on a Positive Note
- Kenneth Chang, NASA’s New Horizons Takes Photos of Ultima Thule, 4 Billion Miles Away
- NOVA, Pluto and Beyond