- Over a WaPo's Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews asks, "Does teacher merit pay work?" And turns to research by Hoover's Eric Hanushek to sort through the answer.
- The Washington Times with a review of senior fellow Robert Service's book Spies and Commissars. If you're in the Stanford area, Service will be giving a book talk, open to the public, at 4 pm this afternoon in the Lou Henry building.
- Keith Hennessey with the first of a series of posts to help us understand the policy and the political strategy of the Fiscal Cliff.
