Our best wishes to our weekly readers, for a safe and happy holiday break.

We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun — for weekend reading. Below are some from this week — pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• The Fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination - J. K. Rowling (Harvard Gazette)

• Is the Country Getting…. Better? Are things returning to normalcy? (Drezner’s World)

• How to ban 3600 books from school libraries (Popular Information)

• The Corruption of Supreme Court Conservatives (The Threats Within)

• The Most Amazing Discoveries of 2022 (Nat Geographic)

• An EV Buying Guide for People Fed Up With Tesla’s Elon Musk (Pursuits)

• Elon’s stale playbook: At Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was a jerk with a grand vision. At Twitter, he’s just a jerk (Business Insider)

• Why Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history (NPR)

• January 6 Report Presents a Devastating Case Against Trump (Mother Jones)

• The 2022 Headline of the Year Nominees (Twitter)

What are you reading or listening to?