It’s been warm up there.

Related reading:  Summer 2014 issue of Variations, publication of the US Climate Variability and Predictability  program  (“This issue of Variations is dedicated to the predictability of Arctic climate, its interaction with the climate of lower latitudes, and how climate change may impact such interactions.”)

Must Read

• Rev. William Barber II (NYT), Why We Are Protesting in Charlotte
• Chris Dillow, Persuasion in a post-truth world
• Paul Krugman (NYT), The Lying Game
• Lawrence Krauss, The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage
• Mike the Mad Biologist, President Trump’s First Term Is Nightmare Fuel

Should Read

• Mark Thoma, 4 Reasons Trump’s Economic Policies Would Be a Disaster
• Drew Magary, If You Vote For Trump, Then Screw You
• driftglass, Remember, Remember
• Samuel Goldman, After Conservatism
• Chris Dillow, The centrist crisis
• Marge Piercy, To be of use

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Must Read

• Steve Almond,  What If Donald Trump Were Covered Like Hillary Clinton?
• Andrea Bernstein, How September 11th Revealed the Real Hillary Clinton
• Alison Murphy, 15 Years Later And Wondering: Is Getting Used To Terrorism A Good Thing?
• Ian Millhiser, DOJ catches Texas violating the court order against its voter suppression law

Should Read

• Mike the Mad Biologist
• Barry Ritholtz, Can Senator Warren Jumpstart Financial Crisis Prosecutions?
• Chris Dillow, The dying bird of globalization
• Mean Squared Errors, The Microfoundations Hoax
• Werner Herzog inspirational posters
• Noah Millman, Failures to Communicate
• ScienceDebate.org, The Candidates’ Views on America’s Top 20 Science, Engineering, Tech, Health & Environmental Issues in 2016
• Chris Brooks and Rebecca Givan, Defending Labor’s School

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Must Watch/Read

• Adolph Reed, Jr., Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It’s Important [Ed.:  Also from Reed – here, here, and here.]
• Charlie Gardner, The Curated Landscape

Should Read

• Chris Dillow, When newer isn’t better
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Campbell’s Law Strikes Education Again
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (NYT), What Apple Teaches Us About Taxes
• Nick Tabor, Gary Johnson’s Hard-Right Record
• Mike the Mad Biologist, “Tell Us What Your Plan Is To Make Our Life Better”
• Lois Weiner, Dream Big on Labor Day

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Must Read

• Corey Robin, On Corruption at [City University of New York]  [Ed.:  1) On a similar theme, 2) Robin’s bottom line is why we need organizations like POGO.]
• Paul Waldmann, Here are 10 good questions for Hillary Clinton (if she ever has another press conference)
• Robert Frank (NYT), Take Back the House, Democrats.  Please.  [Ed.:  Good suggestion but beware of internally-created obstacles.]

Should Read

• Daniel Larison, Clinton’s American Legion Speech
• Daniel Larison, Our Warped Debates About War
• Robert Scott, Why is President Obama making one last push for the TPP?
• Chris Dillow, On Incompetence
• Jill Kaufman, Farmers In The Northeast Are Battling A Drought
• Union of Concerned Scientists, Recipe for a Better Food System
• Charlotte Du Cann, Flight Path – On Reading David Fleming’s ‘Surviving the Future’

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Must Read

• Derrick Jensen, Beyond Hope

PEOPLE SOMETIMES ASK ME, “If things are so bad, why don’t you just kill yourself?” The answer is that life is really, really good. I am a complex enough being that I can hold in my heart the understanding that we are really, really fucked, and at the same time that life is really, really good. I am full of rage, sorrow, joy, love, hate, despair, happiness, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and a thousand other feelings. We are really fucked. Life is still really good.

Related

• Sarah Kobos, Want Community? Build Walkability.
• Mass Energy, Switch to Clean Electricity Today  [Ed: Energy from renewables not ‘greenwashing’ of conventional sources.  For those of us who live in MA and are pro-environment/anti-global-warming it’s a good opportunity to put our money where our mouths are.  It will probably cost you an extra $20-40/month.]

Should Read

• Frederik Hewett, Dirty Water: Good And Bad News About The Future Of The Charles River
• Sam Richards, Drones: Law Enforcement’s Secret Eye In The Sky
• Samuel Oakford (NYT), Saudi Arabia Kills Civilians, U.S. Looks the Other Way [Ed.: Daniel Larison has been on this for months – see here, here, here, here and here – but it’s good to see a major news outlet paying attention. ]
• Andrea Germanos, Stiglitz Blasts ‘Outrageous’ TPP as Obama Campaigns for Corporate-Friendly Deal [Ed.:  More on the TPP here.]
• Chris Dillow, Capitalism, neoliberalism & excellence
• Aaron Carroll (NYT), The EpiPen, a Case Study in Health System Dysfunction
• Charlie Pierce, What I Learned from Watching a Week’s Worth of Olympic Ads [Ed.:  A must read if you live in MA.]

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Must Read

• James Kwak, The Difficult Math of American Health Care
• Strong Towns, Suburban Poverty
• Sean McFate, America’s Addiction to Mercenaries
• Matt Taibbi, The Summer of the Shill

Should Read

• Danielle Brian, Preventing the Next Watergate
• Justin Fox, Where Median Incomes Have Fallen the Most
• Margot Sanger-Katz (NYT), Think Your Obamacare Plan Will Be Like Employer Coverage? Think Again
• Robert Reich, Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer
• Bill McKibben, A World at War [Ed.:  From a technical standpoint it’s winnable but I think we’ll lose for essentially the reasons McKibben cites. We should fight but we need to be prepared to adapt if we lose.  Observe.  Orient.  Decide.  Act.]
• Chris Dillow, Uber vs Co-ops
• Charlie Pierce, The Simplistic Reductionism That Sees Only Good or Evil

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Must Read

• Chris Dillow, My Socialism
• Rebecca Solnit, The Ideology of Isolation
• Tom Sullivan, Outwit. Outlast. Outplay. Outorganize.

Should Read

• James Surowiecki, The Perils of Executive Action
• Alex Green, A History Of Violence: Donald Trump’s Dangerous Innuendo
• Chris Arnade, What do Donald Trump voters really crave? Respect
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The Swing Voter That We Need To Get
• Bob Oakes,  Bedford Gold Star Mother: Trump ‘Doesn’t Understand’
• Paul Kingsnorth, What Is This?

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