Must Read
- WBUR, Soaring Rents And Stagnant Incomes Leave Record Number Of Mass. Families Homeless
- Slawomir Sierakowski, Vaclav Havel’s Fairy Tale
- David Firestone, Weak-Kneed on the Health Care Mandate
Should Read
- Alex Pareene, Why Elizabeth Warren baffles pundits: “Economic populism” isn’t just a campaign slogan
- Gordon Brown, Stumbling Toward the Next Crash
- NY Times, Federal Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Phone Data Program
- Noah Smith, The real most important chart of 2013?
Media Criticism
- Dean Baker, NYT Missed the News: Exchanges Need Healthy People, Young Doesn’t Matter
- Dean Baker, Washington Post Tells Readers That the Possibility of a Rising Debt to GDP Ratio in a Decade Is a Bigger Problem than Millions of Unemployed Young People Today
Politics
- Thomas Esdall, Is the Safety Net Just Masking Tape?
- Tim Egan, Good Poor, Bad Poor
- Charlie Pierce, Hillary Clinton Vote For Iraq War – Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Mistake
- Thomas Edsall, The Center Cannot Hold
Civil Liberties
- Charlie Pierce, NSA Surveillance Court Ruling – The Snowden Effect Continued, Part Deux
- NY Times, White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts
- Charlie Pierce, Right To Privacy – The Tyranny Of The Brand
Economics
- Paul Krugman, Why Inequality Matters
- Matthew O’Brien, The Most Important Economic Stories of 2013 – in 44 Graphs
Math and Science
- Andrew Gelman, Whither the “bet on sparsity principle” in a nonsparse world?
- Andrew Gelman, Replication backlash
- IEEE Spectrum, IRIS Satellite Images Shake up Solar Science
Education
Environment
- NY Times, Setting the Table for a Regal Butterfly Comeback, With Milkweed
- NY Times, Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon
Arts
- Todd Heisler, Once Around an Island
Miscellany
- I Love Coffee, 8 things worth knowing about eating sushi
- Jonathan Mahler, The NCAA Is Even More Evil Than You Think
- NY Times, How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Q: So how much does the regional manner of speaking explain my affinity for Charlie Pierce, Matt Taibbi, Denis Leary, and Louis CK?)