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JANUARY 27, 2015 bloombergview.com

EUROPE The Editors: "Amid the populist rhetoric that propelled the far-left Syriza party to victory in Greece's parliamentary elections, there's one idea that Germany in particular should take to heart: Revive growth in the euro area by giving the hardest-hit countries a break on their debts." Read more... Leonid Bershidsky: "Syriza, Greece's new ruling party, makes an attractive argument for writing off Greek debt: Wasn't Germany, now the biggest opponent of debt relief, itself the recipient of unprecedented largesse in 1953, when its foreign debt was halved? Attractive, however, doesn't mean convincing." Read more... POLITICS Jonathan Bernstein: "The politics of snowstorms isn't just about how well cities deal with the aftermath and how much it costs. Politics defines how people experience blizzards -- and even how many of them do. Here are eight ways in which politics and blizzards interact." Read more... LAW Noah Feldman: "The news that California will ban its judges from participation in the Boy Scouts has been on my mind since it was announced Friday. ... How, exactly, can the state code of judicial conduct prohibit judges from exercising what would otherwise be their constitutional right to free association?" Read more... IMMIGRATION Francis Wilkinson: "Anti-immigrant rhetoric is growing more acceptable among Republican politicians. Its main effect is to polarize a previously bipartisan issue -- probably inevitable in Washington circa 2015 in any case -- and to mobilize competing constituencies. However, it's unlikely to reverse the trend toward greater acceptance of immigrants."Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) And now, the Yahoo moment we've all been waiting for! Read more... Dropbox acquired Pixelapse, a maker of cloud-based collaboration tools for designers. Read more... Uber capped surge pricing during the East Coast megastorm. Read more... Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) Spies! Read more... Standard & Poor's downgraded Russia's credit rating: Read more... Elsewhere in payment systems: Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) As commodities fall, some investors see reasons to buy: Read more... Technology and finance: drivers of a profit margin explosion: Read more... Asia's richest man has seen the future, and it's in Europe: Read more... Bernstein (Read the news roundup) John Sides at the Monkey Cage reports on new research about women in politics, and what might be keeping them from running for office: Read more... Economic depressions are really bad. Jonathan Ladd at Mischiefs of Faction makes the important points: Read more... FHQ's Josh Putnam reassures us that the New Hampshire primary is safe: Read more...