Must Read/Listen

• Kenneth Thomas, Obamacare hasn’t killed full-time jobs, either
• Paul Krugman (NYT), The Fed Should Remember the 90s
• Matt Taibbi, The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia
• NPR, Law Professor: [Rowan County KY clerk Kim] Davis Can’t Evoke Religion To Deny Marriage Licenses
• Charlie Pierce, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Are Calling for a Revolution

Should Read

• Noam Scheiber (NYT), As His Term Wanes, Obama Champions Workers’ Rights [Ed.:  A good thing and it’s about time.]
• Ross Eisenbrey, NLRB Decision in Browning-Ferris Restores Employer Accountability for Wages and Working Conditions
• Dean Baker, A Public Service Announcement: The Bureau of Labor Statistics Budget
• Sabrina Tavernise (NYT), Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success [Ed.: Use of long-acting birth control reduces birthrates.  Wow, who knew?]

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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.]

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Must Read

• R.L. Stephens II, I often can’t afford groceries because of volatile work schedules at Gap [Ed.:  If one job isn’t enough to pay the bills then you get a second job.  But how do you hold a second (or third) job if you don’t know what your work schedule for your first job is?]
• Robert Borosage, Sanders and Trump: The Populist and the Demagogue
• Matt Taibbi, Inside the GOP Clown Car
• Maciej Ceglowski, Web Design: The First 100 Years
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Debt is Good [Ed.:  My thoughts on the subject from a couple years ago.]

Should Read

• Renee Loth, Socialist Propaganda: Will Everything Bernie Sanders Touches Turn Red?
• Roger Lowenstein, The Sometime Liberal
• Rep. Seth Moulton, The Iran Nuclear Deal: The Best Option on the Table
• Chad Orzel, Planning To Study Science In College? Here’s Some Advice
• Victor Fleischer (NYT), Stop Universities From Hoarding Money
• Dave Dayen, SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
• Veronica Pollack, Veronica Pollack Responds to an Internet Heckler

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