Must Read/Watch

• Corey Robin, The Limits of Liberalism at Harvard
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Republicans Will Be Lost In The Wilderness Until They Take Governing In Opposition Seriously
• Steve Almond, The FBI’s Nothing Burger
• Strong Towns, A People-Centered Transportation System
• Danny Hakim (NYT), Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically-Modified Crops

Should Read

• Carolyn Johnson, Why employees feel so pinched by health-care costs
• Patti Neighmond, Poll: Cost Of Child Care Causes Financial Stress For Many Families
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Washington Post And MTV Columnists Should Get Paid No More Than $12/Hour
• Barry Ritholtz, Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages [Ed.:  In case you doubted The Mad Biologist.]
• SNL, Black Jeopardy

• Chris Dillow, Whose Racism?
• Micah Uetricht, They Don’t Care About Us

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Must Read

• Charles Seife, How the FDA Manipulates the Media
• David Dayen, Behind Closed Doors, Hillary Clinton Sympathized With Goldman Sachs Over Financial Reform  [Ed.: Unfortunately, even with this unsurprising revelation, compared with the alternatives she’s still a prize.]

Should Read

• Steve Randy Waldman, Election angst
• Elizabeth Goitein (NYT), The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
• Francis Diebold, Machine Learning vs. Econometrics, III  [Ed.:  Diebold articulates the contrast in methods beautifully.]
• Michael Behar (NYT), Why Isn’t the US Better at Predicting Extreme Weather?
• Casey Schwartz (NYT), Generation Adderall

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Must Read

• Andrew Bacevich, The National Security Void

Should Read

• Steve Eder and Alicia Parlapiano (NYT), Donald Trump’s Ventures Began With a Lot of Hype. Here’s How They Turned Out.
• Steve Almond, Donald Trump’s Greatest Con
• Amy Chozick, Nicholas Confessore, Michael Barbaro (NYT), Leaked Speech Excerpts Show a Hillary Clinton at Ease With Wall Street
• Gin and Tacos, Hot Takes for a Dying Planet
• Paul Waldman, No president can unify our hopelessly divided country
• Eli Rabett, Chart of the Year

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Must Watch

• Daphne Matziaraki (NYT), 4.1 Miles 

Should Read

• Susan E. Reed, In Collapsed Truce In Syria, A Deadly Circle Of Revenge And Mistakes
• Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me; Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way
• Maria Farrell, Why surveillance capitalism is every bit as bad as Stansted Airport
• John Quiggin, Face the facts: competition and profit don’t work in health, education or prisons
• John Quiggin, Why can’t our leaders learn from 30 years of failure in health and education?

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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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