Some of the day’s best reads:
- William Galston on the politician of the future — Ross Perot: “The party that masters the emerging new politics of deficits and debt will seize the mantle of national leadership.”
- AP’s Jennifer Loven on President Obama’s long view: “[F]or the most part he’s refused to get mired in and panicked by the inevitable low points in politics. That set Obama apart during the campaign and helped him succeed.”
- NYT‘s Charles Duhigg on on our collapsing water systems: “State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.”
- Wired‘s Thomas Goetz on why health technology is expensive: “In healthcare, technologies that scale are suspiciously hard to find. There’s no lack of technology, it’s just that they don’t seem to get cheaper and better at the same exponential rate as in the rest of the universe.” (h/t Tyler Cowen)
- Marc Ambinder gives us three reasons Republicans might take back the House.
