Must Read
- Tim Egan, Days of Desiccation
- Nicholas Carr, All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
- Adolph Reed Jr., Nothing Left
Should Read
- Charlie Pierce, The VW Vote Reconsidered
- Robert Reich, America’s “We” Problem
- Richard Mayhew, Why the [Americans for Prosperity] ads [re Obamacare] suck
Health Care
Economics
- Jared Bernstein, I Can’t Find Enough Skilled Workers! (At the Crappy Wage I’m Offering…)
- Dean Baker, David Brooks Stumbles Over the Work Force in Attacking the Minimum Wage
- Dean Baker, Dan Balz and Phillip Rucker Insist the Democrats Cannot Abandon Clinton’s Bubble Driven Growth
Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
- NY Times, Freezing January for Easterners Was Not Felt Round the World
- NY Times, Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute
- NY Times, Financier Plans Big Ad Campaign on Climate Change
- Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition, Feb. 24 – Meet the Installer: “Solarize Mass” Lexington-Bedford
Science
- Jeff Leek, Edge.org asks famous scientists what scientific concept to throw out & they say statistics
- Andrew Gelman, The replication and criticism movement is not about suppressing speculative research; rather, it’s all about enabling science’s fabled self-correcting nature
Politics and Who Gets to Do What to Whom
- Wonkbook, How Labor lost in Tennessee
- NY Times, On Health Act, Democrats Run to Mend What G.O.P. Aims to End
- NY Times, Global Trade Talks Threaten Obama’s Longtime Balancing Act
- Nation of Change, Debate: Was Snowden Justified? Former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker vs. Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
- Paul Krugman, Barons of Broadband
- Paul Krugman, Hedgies Versus Teachers
- Charlie Pierce, This Historical Amnesia In Gallup’s Afghanistan Poll
- NY Times, Colorado Expects to Reap Tax Bonanza From Legal Marijuana Sales
- Boston.com, Arizona pizzeria refuses to serve legislators
Big Chicken on His Way to the Deep Fryer
- NY Times, 18 New Subpoenas Authorized in Lane Closing Inquiry
- NY Times, 2 Former Aides Ordered to Court
Our Future Leaders Please God just take me now
- MIT News Office, The Surprising Value of Waste
- The Harvard Crimson, Fifteen Hottest Freshman
Guns
- ThinkProgress, This New Study Proves That Background Checks Save Lives
Media
- Matt Taibbi, Thank You, Rolling Stone
- First Look Media
- The Baffler
Human Interest
- Ben Street, Kandinsky’s Colors
- Boston.com, From the archives: Vintage skiing photos
- Boston.com, Spring Training Today: Camp officially opens as pitchers and catchers report – Videos
- SoxProspects, Fort Report: Pitchers and catchers report