RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE:
* On economic power and Ukraine.
* Higher wages can help companies as well as workers.
* Who benefits from our do-nothing Congress? (More here.)
* Will the evangelical right push to take the Senate in 2014?
* "Designing Catching Fire's retro-dystopian future.'

"This is Stockholm Syndrome at its finest. Apparently one of the reasons we don't mind the lousy service and high cost of our health care system is because our health care system has convinced us that it's great and, therefore, our health must be great too. We're Number 1, and we won't put up with anyone who tells us otherwise."

THURSDAY FIVE:
* Think 'cartel' - if doctors are overpaid here in the states, why are there so few of them? (Follow-up: no, it's not the government's fault.)
* American intelligence agencies take their fight against online privacy to the UN, because wow.
* "This should be a core issue for all Democrats, not just the progressives like Elizabeth ( Read more... )

"Why are Americans terrified of transgender 6-year-olds?"

Daniel McCarthy on how conservatism got to where it is today, and why the Tea Party can't lead.

"But regardless: the law is here, it's being implemented, half a million people have signed up for Medicaid, young adults are on their parents' plans, the donut hole is disappearing and other Medicare benefits have begun, lifetime and yearly caps and rescissions are gone... all of that is going to be very, very, difficult to displace. So when Greg ( Read more... )

"So what is the problem? That brings us to the new study from the Southern Education Foundation. Cross-referencing and education data, researchers found that that a majority of all public school students in one third of America's states now come from low-income families. How much does this have to do with educational outcomes? A lot. Social science ( Read more... )

FRIDAY FIVE:
* Top read: "why the Left sucks at trolling."
* Ugh. On the Supreme Court and the right to counsel.
* Wait, people are saying that Cuccinelli lost because he wasn't conservative enough?
* Today's gallery: abandoned toy factories. Fun for the whole family.
* Why the Marvel/Netflix deal is great for, well, everyone.

SOME BIRTHDAY NEWS:
* Catching up with yesterday's elections in five headlines and seven takeaways.
* Why isn't the LAX shooter being referred to as a terrorist?
* Good read: Israel is becoming Goliath.
* Twelve places talking secession in modern America.
* On Obamacare and the new obstructionism.

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