Must Read
- Doug Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home
Should Read
- Adam Grant (NYT), The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job
- Dean Baker, An Aging Society Is No Problem When Wages Rise
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Letting Bygones-Be-Bygones? The Iraq War Debate
- Larry Diamond, What is America Fighting For?
- NY Times Editorial Board, A Fearful Congress Sits Out the War Against ISIS
Foreign Policy, Economics and Politics
- Micah Zenko, Chuck Hagel’s Astonishing Admission on Syria
- D.D. Guttenplan,Can Bernie Sanders Win Back Iowa’s Working Class?
- Rick Moriarty, 181-year-old Central New York manufacturer to close, lay off 89 workers [Ed.: Some generations ago this was the family business on one side of my family tree.]
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Disdain In Spain
- Matt Bruenig, The Weak Hillary Case
- Curt Anderson, Donald Trump Isn’t the Biggest Narcissist in the GOP Field. Ted Cruz Is.
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Palinism Enters the Mainstream
- Andrew O’Hehir, Republican doom doesn’t equal Democrat victory: Our political chaos could destroy them both
Health and Health Care
- Caitlin Cruz, ‘Daily Show’ Debunks ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Theory About Mass Shootings
- Mike the Mad Biologist, How Much Is That Colistin in the Window?
- Jonathan Chait, Sorry, Conservatives, Obamacare Is Still Working
- Robert Pear (NYT), State-Level Brawls Over Medicaid Reflect Wider War in G.O.P.
- Jake Harper, States Deny Pricey Hepatitis C Drugs To Most Medicaid Patients
Science
- Brian Resnick, Study: Elite scientists can hold back science [Ed.: A former colleague used to say, “Where there’s death there’s hope.” Looks like he was onto something.]
- Andrea Thompson, What Happened to the Polar Vortex?
- Nicholas St. Fluer (NYT), December Heat Tricks Flowers Into Putting On Spring Display
- NY Times, [SpaceX] Rocket Successfully Lands After Launch
Ending on a Positive Note
- NASA, NASA Satellite Camera Provides “EPIC” View of Earth
- Andrea Shea and Erin Trahan, For Tarantino, A Boston Company Resurrects 70 mm Film Projectors