Must Read/Watch
- Matt Taibbi, The Police in America Are Becoming Illegitimate
- C-SPAN, Senators McCain and Rockefeller on CIA Interrogations
Should Read
- Tim Egan (NYT), The War Hero and the Chicken Hawk
- Anthony Romero (NYT), Pardon Bush and Those Who Tortured
- Peter Pomerantsev (NYT), Russia’s Ideology: There Is No Truth
- Dave Johnson, Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage
- Eileen McNamara, Democrats Cave On Deeply Flawed Spending Bill
- Matt Taibbi, Dodd-Frank Budget Fight Proves Democrats Are a Bunch of Stuffed Suits
- Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons
- John R. MacArthur, Publisher’s Letter
Media Criticism
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, The New Republic: An Appreciation
- Jon Stewart, A Single Factual Error
Politics
- Dan Weber, Ousted Dem Sen. Mark Udall Goes Nuts On Lying Liars At CIA
- Thomas Kaplan, William Rashbaum and Susanne Craig (NYT), After Ethics Panel’s Shutdown, Loopholes Live On in Albany [Ed.: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other NY politician being shits.]
- Brad DeLong, Jack Lew: Fires Back at Elizabeth Warren
- Brad DeLong, Afternoon Must-Read: Daniel Strauss: Sen. Warren Tears Into Defenders Of Poetry-Loving Obama Treasury Nominee Antonio Weiss
- Charlie Pierce, Concede Nothing: Democrats In The South
- Evan Falchuk, The Future Of Third Party Politics In Massachusetts
Science
- Rachel Courtland, DARPA Prepares to Launch “Satlets”
- BBC New, Top 10 physics breakthroughs [of 2014] listed
- Andrew Revkin, New Studies Close in on Methane Leaks and Bolster Calls for Strong E.P.A. Rules
- Joe Romm, What We Learned About Climate Change In 2014, In 6 Scary Charts
- Dean Baker, Global Warming: The United States Does More Harm Than Just Being the World’s Largest Economy
- Andrew Gelman, Subtleties with measurement-error models for the evaluation of wacky claims
- NWSBayArea on Twitter, Atmospheric River still taking aim at the Bay Area [Ed.: More info on atmospheric rivers here.]
Economics
- NY Times, Treasury Secretary [Jack Lew] on the Russian Economy
- Jared Bernstein, Who you callin’ massive? The CRomnibus actually cuts discretionary spending to historic lows as share of GDP
- Kevin Drum, The Obama Recovery Has Been Miles Better Than the Bush Recovery
- Binyamin Appelbaum (NYT), The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind
- Dean Baker, The Incompetence of Economic Policy Makers: Why U.S. Women Are Leaving the Labor Force
- Jared Bernstein, My version of the progressive agenda fits on a little bag. Take that, complexity!
- Charlie Pierce, Working. And Still Poor.
Business
- Adam Vaccaro, Market Basket Deal Completed
Baseball
- SoxProspects News, Trade analysis: Scouting the prospects dealt for Porcello