The read-across in policy, the campaign techniques to copy, the lessons to be learned for 2015.

BBC: Will UK politicians read too much into how Obama won?

Every night I read letters and e-mails sent to me from people across America -- ordinary folks, people who share their hopes and their hardships, their faith in this country, their frustration with what's happened in this economy.

WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth

Rebecca Solnit deftly connects the horrifying dots of the status of harassment and violence women across the world in this (must-read) recent piece at TomDispatch.

FORBES: Germany's Problem with Women

Once it arrived, we used the touchscreen to zoom in and scroll across the document -- handy features for those who need to read word documents on the go, but don't want to rely on their tiny phone screen.

ENGADGET: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review

In what has become a policymaker's must-read, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett claim to have discovered that, across developed countries, the greater the income inequality in any country, the worse the health and social outcomes for everyone: rich and poor.

BBC: The Wealth Gap - Inequality in Numbers

If we can now do it in a non-invasive fashion, it probably won't be long before we can read these things from across the room.

CNN: The future of gaming is all in the mind

And it's of little comfort to the families who wake up wondering how they're going to pay their bills, stay in their homes, or put food on the table -- the Americans I've met in towns across this country, or whose letters I read every night.

WHITEHOUSE: THE WHITE HOUSE

Oil prices fell something like 15% in the third quarter as markets began to price in the prospects for substantially slower growth across the developed world and tightening in the fast-growing emerging markets. (Read Oil Down More Than 15% This Quarter As Sector Stocks Price In Recession).

FORBES: Halliburton's Resilience: Record Revenue, Op. Income Despite Tumbling Oil Prices