Must Read

• J. W. Mason and Michal Rozworski, Beltway Bullshit:  Liberal wonks aren’t afraid of Bernie’s “inexperience.” They’re afraid of an economy where working people have power.
• Dean Baker, Charles Lane and the Washington Post Are Very Generous with the Jobs and Wages of Ordinary Workers
• John Medaille, The Stone Mirror of War

Should Watch/Read

• #DoYourJob
• Erik Olin Wright, Capitalism and Freedom
• Laura Bliss, Innovation Is Overrated
• Corey Robin, Magical Realism, and other neoliberal delusions
• Eric Holthaus, Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Melting So Fast Right Now, Scientists Thought It Was an Error
• Dan Wright, Commerce Secretary Pritzker Defends Corporate Tribunals In TPP
• WBUR, Documents Show Boston Doubled Its Tax Incentive Offer To Help Lure GE
• Ben Jackson, Opioids And Guns: Does The Race Of Their Victims Drive How We Combat Them?

Taxes

• Jared Bernstein, Two tax points: Why is the biz code still a mess and why are we still arguing about trickle-down?

Politics

• Andrew McGill, Bernie Sanders, Union-Buster
• “Maybe if you’re not at war with reality, you’re not focused enough.”

Health

• Linda Johnson, AARP: Price hikes doubled average drug price over 7 years
• Maryn McKenna (NYT), The Looming Threat of Avian Flu
• Paula Span (NYT), Alone on the Range, Seniors Often Lack Access to Health Care

Foreign Policy and Defense

• Daniel Larison, [Senators] Murphy and Paul Seek to Halt Arms Sales to the Saudis
• William Broad and David Sanger (NYT), Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War
• Tyler Rogoway, Russian Attack Jets Aggressively Fly Over U.S. Destroyer In The Baltic Sea

Law Enforcement

• Cathy O’Neil, Chicago Police Department Task Force Report

Environment

• Natasha Geiling, Hillary Clinton Just Released A Plan To Target This Often-Ignored Environmental Issue
• Henry Fountain (NYT), Sierra Nevada Snow Won’t End California’s Thirst

Science

• Radio Boston, NASA’s First Computers Were Women With Pencils
• Adam Morton and Peter Hannam, No ‘science for science sake’: emails show CSIRO plans to cut climate research [Ed.:  And if you have a really good memory you’ll remember this related article from a few months ago.]

Education

• Jonathan Cole, The Pillaging of America’s State Universities
• Mike Konczal, The UNC Coup and the Second Limit of Economic Liberalism
• Paul Voosen, ‘If America Wants to Kill Science, It’s on Its Way’

Movies

• Mike D’Angelo, The Measure Of A Man is not employment, says this affecting award-winner [Ed.: Trailer]

Ending on a Positive Note

• Dan Bilefsky (NYT), Inky the Octopus Escapes From a New Zealand Aquarium
• Sarah Kobos, Keep It Local – Get It Done
• Chad Orzel, Don’t Just Talk About Science With Your Kids, DO Science With Your Kids

(How did this guy get to be PM?!)