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To begin with, please vote today if you live in Massachusetts. Now, the must read stories from the long weekend and the morning papers:
- An illustrated history of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. [Mother Jones]
- Nate Silver, who correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, says Republican Scott Brown is a 74% favorite to win the seat in Massachusetts. [FiveEightThirty]
- What if the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley loses Ted Kennedy’s seat? [MoJo]
- What’s the matter with Massachusetts? [Democracy in America]
- What’s the matter with liberals? [Kevin Drum]
- FBI broke the law for years in phone record searches. [WaPo]
- Were three detainees tortured to death at Gitmo? [Kevin Drum]
- The rise of the paywall: New York Times ready to begin charging online readers. [Daily Intel]
- What’s behind the latest Taliban attack on Kabul? [CSMonitor]
- The ludicrousness of the Haiti looting meme. [The Awl]
- Letter from Haiti: Looting? What looting? [MoJo]
- The Unluckiest State: Haiti’s tumultuous recent history. [FP]
- Exiled dictator “Baby Doc” pledges $8M from Swiss account likely created to embezzle from Haiti to its relief efforts. [Daily Beast]
- Vacationing Amid Disaster: Cruise line stops at a private beach in Haiti. [TAPPED]
- Chile shifts right as a billionaire is elected president. [Reuters]
- Campaign Finance: the small donor revolution? [OpenSecrets]
- Classics in bad analysis: Thank Geithner that we avoided a Great Depression. [Beat the Press]
- Ice cream is delicious, indulgent, and recession-proof. [McClatchyDC]
- The economics of getting sloshed. [Free Exchange]
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