The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- Traffic Didn’t Crash the Obamacare Site Alone. Bad Coding Did Too. [TIME]
- Confessions of a Drone Warrior: “He was an experiment, really. One of the first recruits for a new kind of warfare in which men and machines merge. He flew multiple missions, but he never left his computer. He hunted top terrorists, saved lives, but always from afar. He stalked and killed countless people, but could not always tell you precisely what he was hitting. Meet the 21st-century American killing machine. who’s still utterly, terrifyingly human.” [GQ]
- The GOP Reconsiders Obamacare Tactics [Politico]
- Obama’s Credibility is Melting: “From the moment he emerged in the public eye with his 2004 speech at the Democratic Convention and through his astonishing defeat of the Clintons in 2008, Barack Obama’s calling card has been credibility. He speaks, and enough of the world believes to keep his presidency afloat. Or used to.” [WSJ]
- Stung by a Twitter renegade, group in Obama administration launched a sting of its own [Washington Post]
- Eyes on Detroit: “The trial over Detroit’s eligibility for bankruptcy started Wednesday with starkly different interpretations of the events leading up to the city’s historic Chapter 9 filing in July.” [NYT]
- Germany Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Spying [Al Jazeera]
Prettier in Print: This week’s TIME
- Cover: Inside Prince Charles’ World as He Quietly Takes Charge by Catherine Mayer
- JPMorgan Fine: The Worst Possible Response to the Financial Crisis by Rana Foroohar
- The War Within the U.S. Army by Mark Thompson
- Are Stamps Licked? by Katy Steinmetz