Barack Obama in The New Yorker on the sausage grinding involved in getting the ACA passed. Regardless of how you feel about him or the ACA, he’s worth reading. Sometimes I think I should better appreciate being alive at the same time he was president. He’s the best we’ve had in my lifetime, and is by far the best orator to occupy that job in it’s history. I mean, my politics lie far to the left of him. There are a lot of things I don’t love about the man, but I’m glad he’s still writing and can appreciate his point of view.

Brian M. Rosenthal and Michael Rothfeld’s terrific reporting on the NYC BOE in the NYTimes

Ben Smith, with a very insightful read in the NYTimes partly about this nonsense “October Surprise”, but moreso about media in general.

That’s all for now.