Today’s must reads hope you won’t miss them too much on Thursday and Friday:
- Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross: An Interview With Jonathan Safran Foer (MoJo)
- Obama says he intends to “finish the job” in Afghanistan (NYT)
- Pelosi: Dems facing “unrest” over war spending, troop increase (WaPo)
- Michael Pollan Talks Turkey (MoJo)
- The small-d democratic case against the filibuster (Ezra Klein)
- The Filibuster is Bad (Matt Yglesias)
- The Torture Tapes: What We Know Now (MoJo)
- When Did the Senate Get So Bad? (The American Prospect)
- Abortion and the Filibuster (Kevin Drum/MoJo)
- Mary Landrieu’s Louisiana Purchase? (MoJo)
- The appropriate reaction to Ed Meese figuring out mass incarceration is bad (Gawker)
- Peter Beinart on Sen. Joe Lieberman (The Daily Beast)
- After a rough spell, Kerry returns to form (NYT)
- Washington Post shutters last US bureaus (WaPo)
- Dean Baker: David Brooks Gets Health Care Half Right (The American Prospect)
- As suspected, CIA destroyed tapes between the time Judge Brinkema asked if any existed & when they told her none did (Marcy Wheeler)
- “Like Hell I’m Going To Let Some Black President Help Me Pay For Dialysis” (The Onion)
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