Day’s End and Night Watch

by Ed Kilgore
Politics

Sure feels like a Friday, but nooooo.

Here are some final items of the day:

* Wow: Cameron loses vote in House of Commons on authorization for a military strike against Syria. He says he will “respect” that decision.

* Two polls of LVs in Virginia show McAuliffe opening up significant lead over Cuccinelli.

* TNR’s Jonathan Cohn goes deeper on Medicaid expansion victory in Michigan.

* At Ten Miles Square, Cass Sunstein warns of psychological factors inhibiting a healthy fear of climate change.

* At College Guide, Daniel Luzer explains much higher scores on latest battery of tests for San Jose State University’s MOOC experiment.

And in sorta non-political news:

* AP offers an 8-years-later assessment of Katrina’s damage.

That’s it for the day. We’ll close with Audioslave’s Katrina song, “Wide Awake.”

Selah.

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Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore, a Monthly contributing editor, is a columnist for the Daily Intelligencer, New York magazine’s politics blog, and the managing editor for the Democratic Strategist.