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• Paul Krugman (NYT), Fearing Fear Itself
• Martha Bebinger, A Tale Of 2 Hospital Visits: How The Cost Of Care Can Vary Dramatically Depending On Where You’re Treated
• Jeff Biggers (NYT), Iowa’s Climate-Change Wisdom
• Dave Johnson, Sanders’ Socialism Speech: America Is For All Of Us, Not Just Wealthy

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• Josh Barro (NYT), We’re Living Longer. That’s Great, Except for Social Security.  [Ed.:  Step 1 = Abolish the income cap.]
• John Schwartz (NYT), As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West
• Jesse Bellemare, What is “Managed Relocation” and Will It Have a Place in our Conservation Toolbox?
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Last Line of Antimicrobial Defense Is Falling: Colistin Resistance Transmission
• Hanna Rosin, The Silicon Valley Suicides: Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto?

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• Eric Chandler, It Makes You Feel Better

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• Warsan Shire, Home
• Simon Kuper, Paris witness
• Mark Schmitt (NYT), A Lost Generation of Democrats [Ed.:  It’s also worth pointing out that Eisenhower Republicans are now gone – not just a generation but all of them.  Name one holding an elected office of significance.]
• Julia Preston (NYT), Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, Costing the U.S. Jobs
• Rich Yeselson, The Decline of Labor, the Increase of Inequality
• Andrew Gelman, Death rates have been increasing for middle-aged white women, decreasing for men [Ed.:  Related:  Monica Potts, “What’s Killing Poor White Women?”]

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• Matt Taibbi, The Case for Bernie Sanders
• Sally Jacobs, As Vermont official, Sanders ‘Got things done’
• Mark Thoma, commentary on WSJ article ‘Economic Policy Splits Democrats’
• Dave Johnson, What To Look For When the Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Is Released

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• Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, [Trans-Pacific Partnership] Full Text
• Claire Cain Miller (NYT), Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family
• Charlie Pierce, 420,000 Kentuckians May Have Just Had Their Healthcare Voted Away
• Cardinal Peter Turkson, Lecture on ‘Laudato Si’
• Charlotte Du Cann, Portrait of an Edition [Ed.:  Summary of The Dark Mountain Project’s issue no. 8.]

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• Rep. Ken Gordon Leads Charge: Committee Hears Paid Family and Medical Leave Bill  [Ed.:  If you live in Bedford, Burlington, or the right corner of Wilmington then Ken is your State Rep.  He’ll be up for re-election next year.  If you don’t know him already then get to know him.  He’s excellent – as committed a public servant as you’ll ever meet.]
• Ron Hira, Disney H-1B Scandal in Spotlight Again: Meet The American Workers Whose Jobs and Careers Were Destroyed by the H-1B Program
• Chris Dillow, On Misunderstanding Economics
• Brian Beutler, The GOP’s Grotesque Festival of Lies

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• Rick Perlstein, The GOP Circus: Truth-Defying Feats [Ed.: “Poor old John Kasich” indeed.]
• David Herszenhorn (NYT), House Approves Budget, Providing ‘Clean’ Exit That John Boehner Sought
• Dean Baker, Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government, Permanently
• Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff (NYT), Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice
• Quocrtung Bui and Margot Sanger-Katz (NYT), We Mapped the Uninsured. You’ll Notice a Pattern.
• Andrew Bacevich, Yes, the U.S. can leave Afghanistan
• Eli Rabett, Need to Know

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• The Bedford Citizen, “Carbon Pricing” Takes Center Stage at [Massachusetts] State House Hearing at 1 pm on Tuesday, October 27
• Francis Wilkinson, Republicans Gone Wild: Q&A with [Thomas] Mann and [Norm] Ornstein
• Matt Taibbi, Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President

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• driftglass, Final Update: At The Pillory Clinton Hearing [Ed.:  A translation of the Benghazi hearing transcript from the original Bullshit.]
• NYT Editorial Board (NYT), A New Attack on Health Care Reform
• Andrew Gelman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the ‘Street Code’ of Journalism
• Ben Jackson, 4 Months And Counting: Lessons From Homelessness
• Josh Barro (NYT), Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist Capitalist
• Harold Meyerson, Why Democrats Need Both Sanders and Clinton

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• Gracen Johnson, Small town feedback loops, big city solidarity
• David Dayen, Paul Theroux and the Poverty Behind the Numbers

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• Elise Gould, More of the Same: [Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)] is Continued Evidence of a Slow Moving Economy
• Sarah Kliff, This study is forcing economists to rethink high-deductible health insurance
• Martha Bebinger, Baker’s Proposed Limit On First-Time Opioid Prescriptions Ignites Controversy
• Andrew Bacevich, On Building Armies (and Watching Them Fail): Why Washington Can’t “Stand Up” Foreign Militaries
• James Fallows, How the Press Can Deal With the Benghazi Committee: When a congressional investigation turns into a partisan operation, the media need to treat it as such.

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• Mark Kleiman, Don’t just stand there, do something! (Provided there’s something useful to do.)  [Ed.: See Note 1 below.]
• James Suroweicki, The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P.
• Russell Berman, Here Come the Republican Moderates [Ed.:  For the good of the country let’s hope so.]

[Ed.:  Related reading here and here and here.]

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• Robert Kuttner, Bernie Sanders Is About as Radical as Harry Truman
• Patrick McGreevy, Gov. Brown approves automatic voter registration for Californians
• Tyler Rogoway, The Pentagon’s ‘Concurrency Myth’ Is Now Available In Supercarrier Size [Ed.:  Related reading]
• Charlie Pierce, Texans Are Dying Because Texas Fears ‘Job-Killing Regulations’
• Monica Davey (NYT), Flint Officials Are No Longer Saying the Water Is Fine

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• Julia Preston (NYT), Toys ‘R’ Us Brings Temporary Foreign Workers to U.S. to Move Jobs Overseas
• Jared Bernstein, Are there any economic indicators pointing towards the need for a Fed rate hike? Some of my econ pals weigh in.
• Aaron Carroll (NYT), Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s Story
• Ezekiel Emanuel and Bob Kocher (NYT), Don’t Repeal the Cadillac Tax [Ed.:  Details of the “Cadillac Tax” available here.]
• No More Mr. Nice Blog, But Republicans Never Face Consequences for Their Irresponsibility

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• Norm Ornstein, How GOP Radicals Made the Speakership Unappealing
• Paul Waldman, The GOP’s Delusions
• Paul Krugman (NYT), The Blackmail Caucus, a.k.a. the Republican Party
• driftglass, Sunday Morning Comin’ Down: Carly Fiorina’s Blood Libel
• MacArthur Foundation, Meet the 2015 MacArthur Fellows

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• Robert Kuttner, America’s Collapsing Trade Initiatives
• Jared Bernstein, The success of the Affordable Care Act is a hugely inconvenient truth for its opponents [Ed.:  Obamacare has been quite effective at increasing coverage.  That’s great.]
• Martha Bebinger, AG Says State Must Do More To Control Health Care Costs [Ed.:  Unfortunately, Obamacare does not provide an effective mechanism for reining in health care costs.]

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• Cathy O’Neil, Interrogating algorithms
• David Cooper, In Virtually Every State, the Poverty Rate is Still Higher than Before the Recession
• Tom Keane, Politicians And Privacy: Why Text Messages Should Be Off Limits
• Janna Malamud Smith, Breathe And Stay Curious: My Self-Improvement Strategy For Talking Politics
• driftglass, As His Batshit Chickens Come Home to Roost. Again.
• Jonathan Weisman and Michael Shear (NYT), The Post-Boehner Congress and Washington’s Sense of Dread
• Charlie Pierce, People Want to Hear What Bernie Sanders Has to Say. The DNC Doesn’t.
• Shane Ryan, Behind the scenes with Bernie Sanders: Three days in Iowa that explain why Hillary’s fading and the Dems have a new front-runner

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• Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis, Income Stagnation in 2014 Shows the Economy Is Not Working for Most Families
• Adele Stan, GOP Debate: Fiorina Vanquishes Trump [Ed.:  The intellectual response to last Wednesday night’s Blight at the Museum.]
• NY Times Editorial Board, Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate [Ed.:  And the visceral response.]

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• Paul Krugman (NYT), Fantasies and Fictions at G.O.P. Debate
• Robert Borosage, The Republican Foreign Policy Consensus: Lunacy
• Dean Baker, The Elite’s Childlike Commitment to Austerity
• Brad DeLong, No, The Federal Reserve Should Not Be Tightening Right Now. Why Do You Ask?
• Rep. Ken Gordon Discusses Paid Family and Medical Leave at White House Conference
• Charles Blow (NYT), Bernie Sanders and the Black Vote
• Brad Plumer, Saudi Arabia squandered its groundwater and agriculture collapsed. California, take note.

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