Some Favorite Reads Of 2013
By A far from exhaustive list of some of the strongest journalism I read this year:
- Haley Sweetland Edwards on the power of special interests in the rule-making process and the rent-seeking of medical practitioners.
- Monica Potts on people living in budget hotels.
- Ariel Levy’s shattering piece on her miscarriage.
- Michael Grabell on temps.
- Josh Levin on the story behind the “welfare queen.”
- Katie Baker on how economic security works against pickup artists.
- Patrick Keefe on Amy Bishop.
- Sarah Stillman on civil forfeiture.
- Stephen Rodrick’s piece on the intersection of the crashing careers of Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, and Lindsay Lohan should outlive the negligible movie that resulted.
I’ve forgotten to include many more good ones than I’ve remembered to include, so fill me on on what I’ve missed.
If your whole year in Lemieux has been a tl;dr, my favorite of my own writing from this year:
- On Shelby County: initial reaction, and further refinements here and here.
- On A-Rod and the PED manifestation of the (War on Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs.
- Against the dishonest-on-multiple-levels spin that the Affordable Care Act represented the enactment of the “Heritage Plan” for health care reform.
- The problem with the Supreme Court’s arbitrary spending power holding in Sebelius.
- On anti-choice concern-trolling. Follow-up here.