A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked:

Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post: Why the poor should concern Romney

Scott Carlson in The Chronicle of Higher Education: America’s Health Threat: Poor Urban Design

Maia Szalavitz at Healthland: The Wet House: Homeless People with Alcoholism Drink Less When Booze Is Allowed (Also see Matt Stroud at The Atlantic Cities: Why More Homeless Shelters Should Allow Alcohol)

Matthew Yglesias at Slate: Dirty Money: The astonishing new data showing that simply eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies could achieve half the world’s carbon reduction goals

Rafaela von Bredow in Der Spiegel: The Controversial Release of Suicide Mosquitoes