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Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

The Atlantic

Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator

Der Spiegel

How Fred Gaudelli Turned NBC’s Sunday Night Football Into The No. 1 Show On TV

Deadspin

The college textbook bubble and how the “open educational resources” movement is going up against the textbook cartel

American Enterprise Institute

When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it

The Washington Post

Stop giving chemicals a bad name, says Royal Institution Christmas lecturer

Dr Peter Wothers says the word ‘chemicals’ is being misused to mean something harmful or unnatural (The Guardian)

How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You’re a Terrorist

A look inside the “disposition matrix” that determines when — or if — the administration will pursue a suspected militant (The Atlantic)

CONFIRMED: US Counterterrorism Agency Can Amass Data On Any Citizen

Michael Kelley

Looming Crisis: State Budgets Soon to Be Under Siege

The Big Picture

Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job

Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler. (The Guardian)