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Just days after the mass killings at the Navy Yard, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asks out of the gun wars. He’s not looking for any more Starbucks Appreciation Days.
Open letter from Starbucks CEO: Don’t want your guns in our stores.
The make-believe fight to defund Obamacare, via Slate.
Anne-Marie Slaughter says Jefferson got it right on Congress and war. Via Project Syndicate.
Cass Sunstein explains how poverty takes over the mind. Via Bloomberg.
Maryland messes with Texas — and survives. Via Washington Post.