Hey readers and holiday revelers, welcome back! Get up to speed on the headlines with today’s must-reads:
- U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion (NYT)
- Sessions to Stanford: “I Love You…” (MoJo)
- Napolitano: Airline Security System ‘Did Not Work’ (HuffPo)
- Abdulmutallab: More Like Me In Yemen (ABC)
- Why the Health Care Bill is the Greatest Social Achievement of Our Time (TNR)
- Kevin Drum on Modern Conservatism (MoJo)
- Aides to Iran’s Opposition Leaders Said to Be Arrested After 10 Dead in Protests (NYT)
- Blue Dog Expects More Centrist Dems to Announce Retirement Before 2010 (The Hill)
- In Voting Booth, Gay Candidates Get Support That Causes May Not (NYT)
- Coal’s Greatest Hits, 2009 Edition (MoJo)
- One Man’s Quest to Save an Endangered Mushroom (MoJo)
- Will the Yukon River Reclaim the Alaskan Frontier? (MoJo)
- One School District’s Controversial Crackdown on Border-crossing Students (Texas Observer)
- The Biggest Political Disappointments of 2009 (HuffPo)
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