Must Read

• Matt Taibbi, Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny
• Robert Borosage, The Economy: Beneath the Din
• Brad DeLong, A Cautionary History of US Monetary Tightening
• Justin Miller, How the NLRB Just Radically Changed Labor Relations

Should Visit

• Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Should Read

• Mike the Mad Biologist
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The Plight of Moderately-Skilled White Collar Workers
• Curt Nickisch, Market Basket Is Back To ‘Business As Usual,’ But With New Bills To Pay
• Dean Baker, Robert Shiller’s Case for a Stock Market Bubble
• Campaign Zero
• Tom McNeill, What’s It Like to Get a Ph.D. in Science? [Ed.:  He pretty well captures what it was like for me 20-25 years ago.]

Energy and Environment

• Ben Schiller, Totally Transparent Solar Cells Could Turn Our Windows into Solar Panels
• Tom Porter, Schooner Delivers Maine Produce To Boston Harbor The Old-Fashioned Way
• Kirk Siegler, Worsening Wildfire Seasons Tax The Forest Service

Science

• Rasmus Benestad, Let’s learn from mistakes

Public Safety

• CDC, Injury Deaths [Ed.: Note that firearms deaths are nearly as frequent as motor vehicle traffic deaths]
• Wes Siler, How to Survive a Mass Shooting

Politics

• Charlie Pierce, Republicans Are Still Searching for Solutions to Non-Existent Problems
• Paul Waldman, The simple-minded populism that controls the GOP
• Charlie Pierce, The Rough Current Shape of the Democratic Party
• Patrick Healy (NYT), Bernie Sanders Warns Democrats They May Not Win in 2016 Without Him
• Robert Reich, 2016: The Coming Train Wreck
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Fear of Asymmetry
• David Cay Johnston, The antidote to economic anxiety is better government

Politics:  MA Issues

• Angie Schmitt, The Politically-Driven, Koch-Backed Campaign to Undermine Boston Transit

Economics and Work

• Paul Krugman (NYT),  It’s Getting Tighter
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Unnatural Obsessions
• U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Historic Yield Data
• Ray Edroso, Friend of the Working Man
• Jared Bernstein, The NLRB just acted to give some of the most disadvantaged workers in America more bargaining power
• Joseph Stiglitz, Fed Policy, Inequality, & Equality of Opportunity
• Fed Up

Culture

• Rachel Moran (NYT), Buying Sex Should Not Be Legal
• Joshua Zeitz, Born to Run and the Decline of the American Dream

Ending on a Positive Note

• David Lebovitz, Grilled Deviled Chicken [Ed.:  Looks like a good food blog.]
• NPR Folk Alley Presents:  Charlie Parr