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• NPR, Shinseki To Address Claims Veterans Died Waiting For Care

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• Democracy Now, A Matter of Life and Death: Veterans Affairs Head Grilled over Delays in Care for Returning Soldiers
• Aaron Glantz, Veterans’ Issues reporter at the Center For Investigative Reporting
• Kiley Kroh, Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Power Needs From Renewable Energy
• Ray Pierrehumbert, Keystone XL:  Game over?

Energy and Environment

• MIT Technology Review, Natural Gas Fuels the Recent Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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• Mother Jones, The Man Behind the Vampire Squid: An Interview with Matt Taibbi

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• James Barilla, Gardening for Climate Change
• Binyamin Applebaum, In Tepid Wage Growth, a Potent Sign of a Still-Fragile Economy

Economics

• Suzanne Berger, How Finance Gutted Manufacturing
• Jennifer Medina, Hardship Makes a New Home in the Suburbs
• Lydia DePillis, Trucking used to be a ticket to the middle class. Now it’s just another low-wage job.
• Lydia DePillis, Study: With good jobs scarce, more twenty-somethings use the Army as a last resort
• Steve Earle, Home to Houston
• Dean Baker, Deficit Dogma Runs Deep Even at the New York Times

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• Zadie Smith, Elegy for a Country’s Seasons
• WBUR, A $173 Tax Bill Is Behind A Big Court Case On Mass. Forests [1]

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• Jeff Spross, Why Elizabeth Warren Left The GOP
• LA Times, Verizon Wireless sells out customers with creepy new tactic
• Dave Epstein, When should you plant tomatoes, peppers and other warm weather crops?

Obamacare

• Jackie Chalmes, In Poorest States, Political Stigma Is Depressing Participation in Health Law
• Brian Beutler, Obamacare Leaves Millions Uninsured — Conservatives Pretend To Care
• Brad DeLong, Governor Beshear: 413,000 sign up for health care in Kentucky

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• Jedediah Purdy, To Have and Have Not
• Adam Bonica and Jenny Shen, The rich are dominating campaigns. Here’s why that’s about to get worse.

• David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy, The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
• Dean Baker, The American Middle Class Is Doing Much Worse Than the NYT Says

Should Read

• Trip Gabriel, 50 Years Into the War on Poverty, Hardship Hits Back
• Abby Goodnough, Looking at Costs and Risks, Many Skip Health Insurance
• Tim Harford, Big Data:  Are we making a big mistake?
• NY Daily News, Hurricane Carter’s Dying Wish (CG:  Rubin Carter passed away on April 20.)
• Dan Brosgol, Signs of the Times: Tearing Down Bedford

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Must Read/Watch

• Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, It’s Time We Talk About Guns
• Tim Egan, Deadbeat on the Range
• Charlie Pierce, Revisiting Homeland Security’s 2009 Domestic Terrorism Report
• YouTube, Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets

Should Read

• Emily Atkin, The 3 Most Sobering Graphics From the U.N.’s New Climate Report
• Damian Carrington, IPCC climate change report: averting catastrophe is eminently affordable
• Daniel Smith, It’s the End of the World as We Know It… and He Feels Fine
• Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism:  Philosophy, Spirit, and Ethic

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• Sarah Scoville, Reflection: Visions of Home
• Bishop Desmond Tutu, We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet
• Joshua Holland, Obamacare Is Widening the Gap Between “Red” and “Blue” America

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• Elisabeth Rosenthal, Even Small Medical Advances Can Mean Big Jumps in Bills
• Sarah Kliff, Forget Obamacare:  Vermont wants to bring single-payer to America
• Mary Williams Walsh, Thought Secure, Pooled Pensions Teeter and Fall
• Larry Summers, Now is the time to rebuild our national infrastructure
• Charlie Pierce, North Carolina’s Coal Ash Problem

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• John Schwartz, Program Looks to Give Bees a Leg Up (or Six)
• RealClimate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 2 (IPCC WG2) report now out
• MIT Climate Scientist Kerry Emanuel’s response to Roger Pielke Jr.’s article “Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change”

Should Read

• Calum Marsh, Errol Morris, On Donald Rumsfeld’s Inability to Separate Fact from Fantasy
• Samuel Charap and Lee Feinstein, Obama’s Quiet Offensive
• Jared Bernstein, [Rep. Paul] Ryan’s Path to Austerity
• Liz Ryan, Employers Need to Stop Whining About Talent Shortages

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Should Read

• National Center for Employee Ownership, How an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Works
• Dean Baker, Krugman and DeLong on Avoiding Secular Stagnation
• Paul Krugman, Favoring Wealth Over Work
• Ross Ramsey, A Tax Notion That Conceals a Math Problem

Obamacare

• Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, Deadline Near, Health Signups Show Disparity
• Paul Krugman, Obamacare Fails to Fail
• Ezekiel Emanuel interviewed by Harold Pollack, Why a complex, unjust, expensive, error-prone system might end up providing the best health care

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• Jim Walsh, The Ukrainian Paradox
• John R. MacArthur, The Left Must Derail Hillary Clinton in the Primaries
• Jared Bernstein, The Government is No Drunken Sailor
• Paul Krugman, Working for the Owners

Should Read

• Justin Gillis, Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The Reality, Risks and Response to Climate Change 
• Thomas Frank, Tears for Fears
• Hanna Rosin, The Overprotected Kid

Health Care

• Carey Goldberg, Lesson Of The $446 Ear Rinse: Medical Bills That Make You Say ‘What?!’
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• The Bedford Citizen, Diversity: An Open Letter from Bedford Schools Superintendent Jon Sills

Should Read

• FAIR, Once Again: Progressive Budget’s Media Blackout
• Congressional Progressive Caucus, Better Off Budget
• Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, Why A Larger Navy And A Smaller Army Just Isn’t A Good Idea
• Project on Government Oversight, Federal Contracting Hearing Leaves Unanswered Questions
• NY Times, Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress

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