Department of Weekend Reading: December 19, 2014

Holding torturers accountable: Pardon them.
That story about the high school students who made $72 million in stocks was pretty cool;also totally untrue.
Being smarter about Cuba,only a few decades late.
Bipartisan Cold War rhetoric and the “borderline euphoria” with which defense contractors responded to Russia’s takeover of the Crimea.
The coming year in global instability:Iraq and Afghanistan maybe unraveling; Somalia, less so.
Some reasons whyKeystone may not matter anymore, and everybody can...