Politics
- Jonathan Chait, Tea Party Now Covering News for Washington Post
- NY Times, Statehouse Swagger in the Gun Debate
- Merriam-Webster, sedition (n.)
- NY Times, Challengers to South Carolina Senator Are Lining Up on the Right
- Kevin Drum, Conservatives Are Finally Admitting What Voter Suppression Laws Are All About
Syria (chemical weapons)
- A very brief primer on military-grade nerve agents
- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons Convention (Syria is not a party to it. The US is.)
- U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013
- PM David Cameron argues for UK intervention in Syria (Watch the Parliament debate here. I listened to it on the radio on my way to work. The debate was serious and substantive.)
- Matt Duss argues against a US military strike in Syria, Let’s Avoid the Fog of War
- Mother Jones, Are Chemical Weapons Reason Enough to Go to War?
- Foreign Policy, Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (Note #1: A fine addition to the Reagan legacy. Note #2: Summary of the FP article here if you can’t access it directly.)
Economics
- Paul Krugman, The Arithmetic of Fantasy Fiscal Policy
- Eileen McNamara, All Carrot, No Stick: Rethinking Corporate Tax Breaks
- Jared Bernstein, Pesky Brother-in-Law, 2013 Labor Day Edition
- Nancy Folbre, Full Time, Part Time, Good Jobs, Bad
- NY Times, [Older Workers] Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound
- History of FICA & SECA Tax Rates
The Next Fed Chair
- Jared Bernstein, Summers and the Banks
- Paul Krugman, Bankers, Workers, Obama and Summers
Energy and Environment
Sports
- Chad Finn on the Pats cutting Tim Tebow
(Grim) Humor
- Charlie Pierce, Loose Talk From An Idiot In Maine. (I bet Officer Marsters was known as “Officer Friendly” to the locals in Malden. Betcha didn’t know that fruitcake is one of MA’s chief exports. Sorry Sabattus.)