Must Read/Watch
- Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, It’s Time We Talk About Guns
- Tim Egan, Deadbeat on the Range
- Charlie Pierce, Revisiting Homeland Security’s 2009 Domestic Terrorism Report
- YouTube, Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets
Should Read
- Emily Atkin, The 3 Most Sobering Graphics From the U.N.’s New Climate Report
- Damian Carrington, IPCC climate change report: averting catastrophe is eminently affordable
- Daniel Smith, It’s the End of the World as We Know It… and He Feels Fine
- Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Spirit, and Ethic
Energy and Environment
- Jeff Spross, California Regulators Decide Utilities Can’t Charge Solar-Killing Fees
- Brigitte Knopf, Mitigation of Climate Change – Part 3 of the new IPCC report
Climate Change: Politics
- Coral Davenport, Political Rifts Slow U.S. Effort on Climate Laws
Politics
- Paul Krugman, Don’t Know Much About History, Rand Paul Edition
- Jason Horowitz, Obama Effect Inspiring Few to Seek Office
- Lisa Rab, Meet the Preacher Behind Moral Mondays
Russia
- David Herszenhorn, Russia Is Quick to Bend Truth About Ukraine
- David Herszenhorn and Andrew Roth, In Scripted Surprise, Putin Answers Snowden on Spying (CG: This might be better characterized as “Nonsense on Stilts”)
- David Herszenhorn, Russia Economy Worsens Even Before Sanctions Hit
- Peter Baker, In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin
Science
- Peter Dizikes, In the cloud: How coughs and sneezes float farther than you think
- Kenneth Chang, Scientists Find ‘Earth Twin,’ or Perhaps a Cousin