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

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• Robert Reich, How the Peoples Party Prevailed in 2020 [See Note 1 below]
• Charlie Pierce, There Is a War on Voting in the World’s Greatest Democracy (Ours) [Related reading]
• Lance Selfa, The Same Bosses
• Mike the Mad Biologist, We Are A Chickensh-t Nation [Related reading]

Should Read

• Cathy O’Neil, Flint Water Advisory Task Force Report
• Fernanda Santos (NYT), Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?
• Charles Marohn, Understanding Growth, Part 5
• Domenico Montanaro, A Timeline Of Hillary Clinton’s Evolution On Trade
• Sen. John McCain (NYT), Salute to a Communist
• Philip Jenkins, Recognize the Islamic State [See Note 2 below]
• Alan Jacobs, Naming the Dead

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• Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, The Lobbyist Who Made You Pay More at the Drugstore
• Mark Buchanan, Economists Are Blind to the Limits of Growth
• Gaius Publius, The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
• Anthony Brooks, [Bernie] Sanders Got His Start In Burlington, And His Policies Continue To Shape The City

Should Read

• Matt Taibbi, Why Trump’s Endorsements Should Scare Your Pants Off
• David Neiwert, Violence Begets Violence — Just the Way They Like It
• Hunter Blair, Introducing the People’s Budget
• Mark Buchanan, Humanity’s Race Against Itself
• Mark Buchanan, Steaming slowly toward the limits of growth [Ed.:  A rebuttal to this column.]
• Tom Murphy, Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist [Ed.:  Link fixed 3/23]
• Nelson Schwartz (NYT), Carrier Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, of Global Trade
• Joseph Stiglitz, The New Generation Gap
• Cathy O’Neil, Resist the evil of the selfie password

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• Elise Gould, Wage inequality continued its 35-year rise in 2015
• Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Quit Your Job [Ed.:  Much more nuanced than the title implies.]
• Dave Roberts, Got Denmark envy? Wait until you hear about its energy policies.
• Andrew Gelman, The problems with p-values are not just with p-values: My comments on the recent [American Statistical Association] statement

Should Read

• Jeffrey Goldberg, The Obama Doctrine
• Ben Shapiro, Trump’s Horrifying Anti-Military Slur At Last Night’s Debate Should Scare You
• David Cay Johnston, The real Trump tax scandal [Ed.:  No, I have not forgotten The Trump Litany.]
• Jane Roper, The Winter That Wasn’t
• Corey Robin, Educate, Agitate, Organize

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• Corey Robin, The Primary Isn’t Over
• Doug Henwood, The Post-Hope Democrats
• Jedediah Purdy, Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy
• Climate XChange, Carbon Fee and Rebate – Answering the Threat of Climate Change and Strengthening the Economy

(Last month I commented that I run hot and cold on Jacobin.   With respect to the presidential primaries and the Democratic party, they’ve been in fine form recently.)

Should Read

• Monique Morrissey, The State of American Retirement:  How 401(k)s have failed most American workers
• Gerald Friedman, The Critics of Sanders’s Health Plan Understate Benefits and Overstate Costs
• Jo Becker and Scott Shane (NYT), The Libya Gamble, Part 1: Hillary Clinton, ‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator’s Fall
• Scott Shane and Jo Becker (NYT), The Libya Gamble, Part 2: A New Libya, ‘With Very Little Time Left’
• Doug Henwood, The New Republicans
• Charles Dermer, Why Southwest Virginia Is Trump Country
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Clash of Republican Con Artists
• Tim Egan (NYT), The Beast Is Us

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• Matt Taibbi, How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
• David Cay Johnston, 21 Questions for Donald Trump
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The ‘Economic Left’, The Poor, and the Anti-Solidarity of Progressives
• Steve Randy Waldman, Your theory of politics is wrong

Should Read

• James K. Galbraith, Economic Forecasting Models and Sanders Program Controversy
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Sanders And The Neo-Liberals
• Simon Wren-Lewis, A letter to Tony Blair [Ed.:  This should also be required reading for Democratic party leadership.]
• Dean Baker, Fareed Zakaria Is Wrong: The Left Has Plenty of Good Solutions for Inequality, They Just Don’t Get Mentioned in the WaPo Opinion Pages
• Bruce Gellerman, Gas Export Decision Stirs Debate Over Mass. Pipeline Need
• Andrew Revkin (NYT), Bill Gates’s Clean-Energy Moon Shot
• Michelle Innis (NYT), Scientists Protest Cuts and Commercialization at Australian Climate Center

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• J.W. Mason, Can Sanders Do It?
• Johnny Sanphillippo, Problems We Don’t Really Want to Solve
• Kelley Vlahos, Addicted to Los Alamos
• Andrew Revkin (NYT), Oxford’s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny

Should Read

• Bob Oakes, U.S. Rep. Moulton Explains Why He’s Running For Congress Again
• Paul Waldman, The Electability Conundrum
• dsully, 12 Examples of Hillary Violating Progressives’ Trust
• Mike the Mad Biologist, When Very Serious Economists Act Very Unseriously
• Dani Rodrik, The Trade Numbers Game
• Chris Bertram, Cash and Freedom
• Eric Posner, The Tragedy of Antonin Scalia
• Robert Reich, Why We Must Try

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• Mike the Mad Biologist, We Need an Early Urban Primary
• Noah Smith, Free Trade With China Wasn’t Such a Great Idea for the U.S.
• Peter Dorman, Freedom: Three Varieties and a Caveat
• Jedediah Purdy, Sanders and the Theory of Change: Radical Politics for Grown-Ups

Should Read

• Norman Solomon, The Escalating Media Assault on Bernie Sanders
• David Dayen, What the Liberal Attacks on Bernie Sanders Are Really About
• Robert Kuttner, In Praise of Unrealistic Ideas
• Dan Kervick, Krugman the Forgetful
• David Dayen, For Trade Deal, Bad News Keeps Mounting
• Dan Charles, Guest Workers, Legal Yet Not Quite Free, Pick Florida’s Oranges
• Eric Chandler, The Fun Dome (#64): The Achievement Machine

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