Must Read

• Mark Puente, Undue Force
• Scott Lemieux, Kansas’ experiment in concentrated conservatism keeps getting grimmer
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Ideology and Integrity

Should Read

• Lydia DePillis, Why companies are rewarding shareholders instead of investing in the real economy
• Robert Reich, The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Nobody Said That
• Joe Firestone, Fast/Track/TPP: The Death of National Sovereignty, State Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, and Democracy
• John Harris, Everything Wrong With America Can Be Blamed On The Couple Standing Behind Me In Line For Ice Cream This Past Saturday
• Amy Schumer, Football Town Nights
• Doktor Zoom, Brave New Tractor: John Deere And General Motors Pretty Sure They Own All Your Stuff

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

• Scott Horsley, Obama Confident In Asia Trade Pact, But Track Record For Deals Is Spotty
• David Dayen, Obama Is Selling the TPP Trade Deal Just Like Al Gore Sold NAFTA
• Josh Bivens, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Unlikely to Be a Good Deal for American Workers
• Robert Scott, Just the Facts: Trade and Investment Deals Are Bad for Working Families
• Yves Smith, Bill Black: Obama & TPP – Every One That Doeth Evil Hateth the Light

Media Criticism

• Corey Robin, Our perverse centrist patriots: Everything the elite media gets wrong about American politics
• Kenneth Thomas, Moving the goal posts on ACA success UPDATED

Economics

• Josh Bivens, Stagnant GDP at the Start of 2015 is the Latest Evidence That the Economy Hasn’t Reached Escape Velocity
• Brad DeLong, Let Me Strongly Dissent from Ben Bernanke’s Claim That the Critical Objective of Recovery Viewed in the Proper Metrics Is Being Met
• Brad DeLong, Needed: New Economic Frameworks for a Disappointing New Normal
• Jim Tankersley, The dramatic solutions to lift the country’s economy, as only college students could imagine
• Center for Economic and Policy Research, Facts and Myths About a Financial Transactions Tax
• Jared Bernstein, A financial transaction tax is a Pigouvian tax!
• Scott Rodd, This Is What Poverty In Jamestown, Tennessee Looks Like

Freddie Gray

• Eduardo Encina, [Orioles]’s VP John Angelos: ‘ball game irrelevant’ when compared to poor’s plight
• Manny Fernandez (NYT), Freddie Gray’s Injury and the Police ‘Rough Ride’
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nonviolence as Compliance

Politics

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, To Stop Being the Party of Stupid You Must Stop Being Stupid
• Paul Rosenberg, Scott Walker, forever tarnished: Republican governors have tanked the GOP brand
• Jim Tankersley, Democrats’ conundrum: Voters often don’t trust government to fix inequality
• Charlie Pierce, Trading Blows, Cont’d: The Word Goes Forth
• Philip Bump, The Democrats’ white-voter problem — in 2 maps
• Andrew Prokop, See Congress polarize over the past 60 years, in one beautiful chart
• Greg Sargent, Much of NSA bulk surveillance as you’ve known it may soon end
• Max Ehrenfreund, The fringe economic theory that might get traction in the 2016 campaign

Bernie Sanders

• Matt Taibbi, Give ‘Em Hell, Bernie
• Charlie Pierce, Bernie Sanders Jumps In: The Last Bull Moose Campaign
• Max Ehrenfreund, Why Bernie Sanders’s strategic gambit may not be as unreasonable as it seems

Climate Change:  Politics and Science

• Eric Steig, How long does it take Antarctica to notice the Northern Hemisphere is warming?
• Ari Phillips, The Massive New Online Course That Every Climate Science Denier Should Be Very Afraid Of
• Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy (NYT), Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californians
• Coral Davenport and Laurie Goodstein, Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change, to Conservatives’ Alarm
• Eli Rabett, Sausage Grinding School

Science

• Aviation Week, Hubble Space Telescope Turns 25
• Exelis Geospatial Systems, Small Satellite Payload Solutions

Arts and Culture

• Christian Blauvelt, We Are Young We Are Strong: An almost forgotten tragedy
• Kristin Toussaint, Remembering the Last Marine to Die in Vietnam, 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon
• Rep. Tammy Duckworth on women in combat
• Noam Scheiber (NYT), A Woman-Led Law Firm That Lets Partners Be Parents
• Radio Open Source, George Scialabba: the untethered, untenured mind
• Kory Grow, John Lydon and His Rotten Past

Baseball

• Bill Chuck, Real Reasons to Be Concerned About Koji Uehara
• SoxProspects, Red Sox to recall top prospect Blake Swihart