This Was the Moment When the Rise of the Oceans Began to Slow and Our Planet Began to Heal

Obama administration signals it will approve the Keystone XL pipeline while rolling back carbon rules for new power plants.

Monday Night Links

* The upcoming issue of Criticism is all about The Wire. Looks great.

* Making the rounds: How the bubble destroyed the middle class. The consequence of all this is that the “middle class” of the last forty years in the U.S. is essentially an accounting fiction.

* Apocalypse now: Nearly a fifth of the contiguous United States has been faced with the worst drought in recent years.

* Super Mario Bros., with the lowest possible score.

* And cynical, self-defeating betrayal we can believe in: Obama proposes raising Medicare eligibility age to 67. Taibbi: Obama Doesn’t Want a Progressive Deficit Deal. See also.