Must Read

• Corey Robin, What Donald Trump Can Learn From Frederick Douglass [Ed.: Read Robin’s piece then read the transcript of this interview on NPR]
• Robert Kuttner, The Other Woman: Elizabeth Warren and the 2016 Election
• David Glasner, What’s so Great about Free Trade?

Should Read

• Corey Robin, The arc of neoliberalism is long, but it bends toward the rich
• Ari Berman, There Were 5-Hour Lines to Vote in Arizona Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
• MediaStorm, Farming in an Age of Drought
• Lisa Krieger, Stormwater floods Modesto almond orchard in experiment to restore aquifer
• Ross Andersen, The World’s Most Urgent Science Project
• Dr. Michael Rich, Saving Prouty [Garden] Means Saving Children’s Lives

Economics

• James Kwak, “Economics” as Push Poll
• Lori Wallach, The Choice Is Not Between TPP or No Trade
• Narayana Kocherlakota, The Trouble With Predictions [Ed.: Related reading]
• Neil Irwin (NYT), With ‘Gigs’ Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens
• Lawrence Mishel and David Cooper, California and New York’s bold $15 minimum wage proposals are exactly what we need
• Hansi Lo Wang, California, New York To Raise Minimum Wages To $15 An Hour
• Ari Shapiro, One Year On, Seattle Explores Impact Of $15 Minimum Wage Law
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Living Wages, Healthcare, And Income Transfers

Health Care

• Martha Bebinger, ‘Not Unlike A Mortgage’: Health Care Loans Proposed For Pricey Treatments
• Dean Baker, Generic Sovaldi Costs Less than $1,000 in India
• Dean Baker, Patent for hepatitis C drug costs US billions of dollars [Ed.:  Related reading from Baker here.]
• The World Bank, Health expenditure, total (% of GDP)
• Bernie Sanders, Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind

Politics

• David Akadjian, Twelve questions for Bruce Bartlett, economic historian and former Reagan adviser
• Corey Robin, The Bernie Generation
• Matt Taibbi, Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton
• Matthew Delmont, When Black Voters Exited Left: What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party
• Paul Campos, Torture has now been normalized into a “policy” question
• Erik Eckholm (NYT), Outraged by Kansas Justices’ Rulings, Republicans Seek to Reshape Court
• C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky: The Republican Base Is “Out of Control”
• Mike McPhate (NYT), No Guns Allowed at Republican Convention, Secret Service Says
• Daniel Larison, Where Will the GOP Go After Trump?

Foreign Policy

• Daniel Larison, Hadi’s Propaganda and the War on Yemen
• Daniel Larison, Ignoring the Indefensible War on Yemen
• Bernie Sanders, Sanders Outlines Middle East Policy

Russia

• Corey Flintoff, In Russia, The Oil Price Drop Hits Putin’s Base Hard

Urban Planning

• Charles Marohn, The Walmart Trophy
• MIT Technology Review, Data Mining Reveals the Four Urban Conditions That Create Vibrant City Life
• dr2blog, Banning Cars as a Thought Experiment

Science

• Natalie Wolchover, Nature’s Warning Signal
• Justin Gillis (NYT), Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly
• Sally Brown, What drives uncertainties in adapting to sea-level rise?
• Henry Fountain (NYT), Scientists Find a Way to Predict U.S. Heat Waves Weeks in Advance
• Bill Ruddiman and John Mashey, The Early Anthropocene Hypothesis: An Update
• Brian Schmidt, California water dreaming

Ending on a Positive Note

• Johana Bhuiyan, Here’s what you need to know about the Tesla Model 3
• Jason Lee, Devon Knight, and Julia Moskin (NYT), Recipe Lab: Ragù
• Lunch at O’Nutters