Must Read
- The Bedford Citizen, “Carbon Pricing” Takes Center Stage at [Massachusetts] State House Hearing at 1 pm on Tuesday, October 27
- Francis Wilkinson, Republicans Gone Wild: Q&A with [Thomas] Mann and [Norm] Ornstein
- Matt Taibbi, Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President
Should Read
- driftglass, Final Update: At The Pillory Clinton Hearing [Ed.: A translation of the Benghazi hearing transcript from the original Bullshit.]
- NYT Editorial Board (NYT), A New Attack on Health Care Reform
- Andrew Gelman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the ‘Street Code’ of Journalism
- Ben Jackson, 4 Months And Counting: Lessons From Homelessness
- Josh Barro (NYT), Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist Capitalist
- Harold Meyerson, Why Democrats Need Both Sanders and Clinton
Economics
- John Hilary, I didn’t think TTIP could get any scarier, but then I spoke to the EU official in charge of it
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Something Not Rotten In Denmark
- Bill McBride, Ornithology: What is a “deficit hawk”?
Politics
- Chris Dillow, Technical Change as a Collective Action Problem
- The Newsroom, The Greater Fool [Ed.: Fiction, but more truth than truthiness.]
- Simon Wren-Lewis, How television fails in its duty to inform
- Charlie Pierce, Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever
- Eileen McNamara, Hurrah! Paul Ryan Values His Family — Too Bad He Doesn’t Give A Hoot About Yours
- Alan Rappeport (NYT), Jim Webb, a Blip in the Polls, Warns of an Independent Run
- Jedd Legum, Was George W. Bush President On 9/11? An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart
- Matt Bruenig, The Presidential Mirror
Foreign Policy
- Michael McFaul (NYT), The Myth of Putin’s Strategic Genius
Mortality
- Kaiser Fung, Debunking the Great ‘Selfies Are More Deadly Than Shark Attacks’ Myth
- Charlotte Wilder, Here’s how accidental hunting deaths dropped dramatically in Maine
Business
- Rachel Cohen, Why Hundreds of Thousands of Recalled VW Cars May Not Be Repaired
- Sarah Jerving, et al., What Exxon Knew About Global Warming’s Impact On The Arctic
Climate Change: Science and Politics
- Brad Plumer, The math on staying below 2°C of global warming looks increasingly brutal
- Dave Roberts, Clean energy creates some jobs and destroys others. Here’s what that tells us about politics.
Science
- John Delaney, The Non-Invasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces [Ed.: John was the Chief Scientist at my workplace a few years before my time. He still consults. I chat with him when he visits. I can’t think of a conversation we’ve had with him where he didn’t offer up at least one very good idea or I didn’t learn something new.]
- Kevin F. Kelly & Cyrus C.M. Mody, Whatever Happened to the Molecular Computer?
Ending on a Positive Note