What you need to read as we enter the new year:

• US Had Early Signals of a Terror Plot (New York Times)
• Obama Takes Heat President Bush Did Not (Politico)
• You Are 20 Times More Likely to Be Hit by Lightning Than Be on a Hijacked Flight (FiveThirtyEight)
• Why We Don't Need Health Insurance Companies Anymore (New Yorker)
• Kevin Drum on Republican Prospects for Repealing Healthcare Reform (MoJo)
• Tempest in the Tea Party (MoJo)
• US Prepares Sanctions for Iran (Washington Post)
•  Chinese Companies Could be Spending Big in Afghanistan (New York Times)
• It Comes But Once a Year: NYE in NYC (MoJo)
• MoJo's Top Books of 2009 (MoJo)
• The Dumbest Quotes of the 2000s (HuffPost)
• How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation (Alternet)

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