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The must reads from around the web and in today’s papers:
- The new storm brewing on the climate front. [Mother Jones]
- Investors urge governments to act on climate change. [Reuters]
- How Haiti, the most profitable French colony, became such a desparate and destitute country. [Washington Babylon]
- An Unnatural Disaster: Why the Haitian quake caused so much damage. [The Vine]
- Burst of mobile giving nets millions for Haiti. [NYTimes]
- Ideas to fix the financial system from the second day of the Financial Crisis hearing. [Kevin Drum]
- Obama’s big-bank tax. [MoJo] | More on the bank tax. [Kevin Drum]
- Financial aid a top public universities increasingly going to wealthier, whiter students. [WaPo]
- A Revolutionary Idea in Mexico: Don’t have one this century. [WSJ]
- The Sound of the Melting Pot: Interactive maps of the different languages spoken in the US. [TAPPED]
- President Obama’s first year…in charts and graphs! [Democracy in America]
- Twelve-thousand UK students are Facebook fans of a “Hitler” drinking game that mocks the Holocaust. [SkyNews]
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