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The top of today’s reading list discusses how non-competitve congressional districts lead Congress into gridlock …….. and the last article is about the impact of unemployment insurance on poverty.
- John Stuart Mill and the Tea Party (Jay Mandle, Huffington Post) Hat tip to Adam Hutton, Newsana. The lack of competitive congressional districts is contributing to a failure of public education in political matters.
- So How Big a Deal is the Pending “$13 Billion” JP Morgan Settlement? (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) See also GEI News.
- Edward Snowden: US would have buried NSA warnings forever (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian) Hat tip to Roger Erickson.
- 6 Questions For Niall Ferguson (Josh Barro, Business Insider) Just how great is Niall Ferguson?
- Skull Fossil Suggests Simpler Human Lineage (John Noble Wilford, The New York Times) The development of modern man may have had a simpler family tree than previously theorized.
- Fascination with animals changed humanity’s evolutionary path (Debra Black, thestar.com) Hat tip to Will Koblensky, Newsana.
- Is Gold Overpriced? (Adam Jared Apt, Advisor Perspectives) Hat tip to Sig Silber.
- The ocean is broken (Greg Ray, Newcastle Herald, 18 October 2013) Hat tip to Russell Huntley.
- Brains flush toxic waste in sleep, including Alzheimer’s-linked protein, study of mice finds (Meeri Kim, The Washington Post, 19 October 2013)
- Why Isn’t Poverty Falling? Weakening of Unemployment Insurance Is a Pivotal Factor (Arloc Sherman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)