What a week!

Here's what you missed.

• Everyone should sleep alone and here’s why. (The Atlantic, ~14 min.)

• How a small but aggressive cohort of Second Amendment absolutists is changing gun laws in Idaho. A must-read. (BuzzFeed News, ~35 min.)

• This essay on how to enjoy winter is as beautiful as it is smart. (Kottke.org, ~6 min.)

• For all those saying impeachment is political, knock it off — it’s not. (The New Yorker, ~5 min.)

• On a work trip to a massive oil field in Kazakhstan, a Microsoft employee begins to understand the extent to which Bit Tech is in bed with Big Oil. I can’t stop thinking about this one. (Logic Magazine, ~19 min.)

• Adam Sandler sits for his first magazine profile since 1996, and it’s thoroughly enjoyable. (New York Times Magazine, ~32 min.)

• In California’s Salinas Valley, “the salad bowl of the world,” fast-rising rents have created a homeless crisis for farmworkers and their families. This one broke my heart. (California Sunday, ~23 min.)

• President Obama has been pretty quiet since leaving office — much to Democrats’ chagrin — but that shouldn’t last much longer. (Politico Magazine, ~24 min.)

• For chic water bottle maker S’well, fighting knockoffs is a big, horrifying game of whack-a-mole. (Medium, ~23 min.)

• A winding conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, as he reflects on the 2010s and tries to answer the question: “How did we get here?” (New York Magazine, ~30 min.)

• Just an infant when his dad died shortly after 9/11, Jake Spann was the first kid to lose a parent in the Afghanistan war. Now he’s 18 and on a mission of his own. (Washington Post, ~10 min.)

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