Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week:
Thanksgiving in Mongolia — Adventure and heartbreak at the edge of the earth
Why can’t we all just get along? — The uncertain biological basis of morality
Richard Cohen in context — Some people are defending his abysmal column. Their argument is not very good
Twilight of an oligarch — “Bloomberg will be replaced by Bill de Blasio, a former Marxist revolutionary who has cast himself as a champion of the city’s downtrodden”
Locked in the Cabinet — The worst job in Barack Obama’s Washington
Content economics, part 4: scale — Vox Media’s acquisition of Curbed is just the beginning of digital media consolidation
How does food media solve its gender bias problem? — If the restaurant world has a shortage of celebrated female chefs, what is to blame?
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.