Glenn Greenwald with a devastating post on Wikileaks' revelations about the U.S. turning a blind eye to torture in Iraq.
Ezra Klein makes a smart "It Gets Better" video arguing that increased agency makes adulthood better; The Economist explains how being broke limits agency and therefore stops it from getting better.
Unintentionally hilarious threat of the day: “If [Sarah Palin] chooses to run for president in 2012, she is going to have to answer to black Republicans.”
Are our criminal-justice policies bad because of too much democracy?