The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- Sudan’s Lost Boys Are Drawn Into War at Home [NYT]
- Who Lost Fallujah? [TIME]
- Obama’s 3 Challenges for January [TIME]
- Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg [WSJ]
- Koch-backed political network, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012 [WashPost]
- Marco Rubio is Wrong: The War on Poverty Worked [Daily Beast]
- “Extended unemployment benefits for about 1.3 million Americans expired on Dec. 28, and Congress is unlikely to restore those payments swiftly, or at all.” [Roll Call]
- “Liz Cheney, whose upstart bid to unseat Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi sparked a round of warfare in the Republican Party and even within her own family, is dropping out of the Senate primary.” [CNN]
- Why Legal Weed is Working in Colorado [TIME]
- Hillary Clinton’s Shadow Campaign [Politico]
- Did John Boehner Win the Shutdown in the End? [Atlantic]
- Did Edward Snowden Break His Oath? [New Yorker]
- The Congressman Who Went Off the Grid [Politico]