Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):

Economics

• Positive, Normative, and … ?, by Donald Marron
• The Least Surprising Correlation of All Time, by Greg Mankiw

Global Warming

• Technology Can Fight Global Warming, by Bjorn Lomborg Wall Street Journal: “Marine cloud whitening, and other ideas.”

Health Care Reform

• A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at What Cost, by Charles Krauthammer
  Washington Post: “Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don’t need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction.”
• Some Roman Catholic Bishops Assail Health Plan, by David Kirkpatrick
  New York Times: “Despite the church’s push on the issue, some are raising concerns over abortion and alarms about ‘rationing.’”
• Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business, by Gary Locke
  Wall Street Journal: “How many aspiring entrepreneurs are stuck in dead-end jobs because of health concerns?”President Obama’s Secretary of Commerce asks a very pertinent question here. However, as I have previously noted, the question of whether the health care system should be reformed is not particularly controversial; what is controversial is the manner in which health care reform ought to be structured and implemented.

Miscellaneous

• How Facebook Ruins Friendships, by Elizabeth Bernstein
  This essay from today’s Wall Street Journal ought to be required reading for all Facebook users!

Religion

• The Benefits of Religion
  Freakonomics: “A new study by Angus Deaton uses an expansive dataset to analyze the determinants and benefits of religiosity around the world.”