- “Syria has rendered its declared chemical weapons production facilities inoperable, the organization in charge of overseeing the nation’s chemical weapons disarmament said Thursday. The declaration is a milestone in an unusual international undertaking that aims to completely destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal by the middle of next year…” [WashPost]
- “The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world…” [WashPost]
- “Over two dozen privacy laws have passed this year in more than 10 states, in places as different as Oklahoma and California.” [NYT]
- “Employing unusually sharp language, the U.S. on Wednesday openly criticized Germany’s economic policies and blamed the euro-zone powerhouse for dragging down its neighbors and the rest of the global economy.” [WSJ]
- “Federal Reserve officials emerged from a two-day policy meeting with their signature easy-money program intact and no clear signal about whether they would begin pulling it back at their December meeting or continue it into 2014 during a leadership transition at the central bank.” [WSJ]
- “All of the female Democratic senators signed a secret letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton early this year encouraging her to run for president in 2016…” [ABC]
- “President Obama asked Hillary Clinton to stay on for an extra year as secretary of State after he won reelection.” [Hill]
- Prettier in Print
- Cover: “The Secret Web: Where Drugs, Porn and Murder Live Online” by Lev Grossman and Jay Newton-Small
- “The Saudis Are Mad? Tough!” by Fareed Zakaria
- “The New Bro Code: How to persuade young, health males to sign up for ObamaCare” by Joel Stein
- “Establishment Republicans Declare War on the Tea Party” by Alex Altman
- “Another False Start for ObamaCare” by Kate Pickert
- “Spies Like Us: Friends Always Spy on Friends” by Michael Crowley
- The Red Sox win it all [Boston Globe]
- Happy Halloween!
Morning Must Reads: October 31
In the news: Syria's chemical weapons facilities; the NSA; the Fed; President Hillary Clinton; the Red Sox; what's prettier in print