Must Read
- Sabrina Tavernise (NYT), The Condition Cancer Research Is In [Ed.: Read this as much for observations on the condition scientific research is in as for cancer research in particular.]
- driftglass, 10 Years After: 2007 — SOTU FU [Ed.: Related tirades here and here.]
- BBC News, Are we tired of talking about climate change?
- Jonathan Franzen, Carbon Capture: Has climate change made it harder for people to care about conservation? [Ed.: Franzen’s piece is worth reading it’s own right but also in the context of Elizabeth Farnsworth’s “Is ‘New Conservation’ Still Conservation?“]
Should Read
- James Hansen, Makiko Sato, and Reto Ruedy, The New Climate Dice: Public Perception of Climate Change
- Adam Nagourney, Jack Healy, and Nelson D. Schwartz (NYT), California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth
- Scott Beauchamp, Military High Tech Leads to Big Graft
- Dean Baker, Generic Sovaldi Costs Less than $1,000 in India
- Lydia DePillis, Losing a job is always terrible. For workers over 50, it’s worse.
- Andrew Gelman, Regression: What’s it all about?
Environment
- Ari Phillips, Antarctica Recorded Its Hottest Temperature on Record This Week
- Justin Gillis (NYT), Climate Change Threatens to Kill Off More Aspen Forests by 2050s, Scientists Say
- Michael Oppenheimer, When Will Climate Change Become More Dangerous?
- Joe Romm, Long-Awaited ‘Jump’ In Global Warming Now Appears ‘Imminent’ [Ed.: The title suggests fear mongering but there’s actually a technical basis for the argument.]
The California Drought and Its Consequences
- Eduardo Porter (NYT), The Risks of Cheap Water
- Adam Nagourney (NYT), California Imposes First Mandatory Water Restrictions to Deal With Drought
- Daniel Swain, April showers to bring welcome moisture in the midst of California’s record-setting, multi-year drought
Economics
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Mornings in Blue America
- Jared Bernstein, Our full employment event…the video!
- Neal Irwin (NYT), Why More Education Won’t Fix Income Inequality?
- David Cay Johnston, The Estate Tax Isn’t Destroying Family Farms
- Thomas Edsall, How Poor Are the Poor?
- Ben Bernanke, Why are interest rates so low?
- Jared Bernstein, The strong dollar, its impact on growth, and the TPP
- Dan Drezner with Henry Farrell, Austerity is still popular despite an abject record of failure
Politics
- BBC News, French local elections: Exit polls suggest conservative win [Ed.: This is what happens when liberals/a liberal coalition has control of government and fail to do anything useful. See also the U.S. 2006-2010.]
- Kiah Collier, After marathon debate, Texas House OK’s $210 billion budget [Ed.: “Welcome to Texas! The Shithole State!”. The bigger picture here.]
Miscellany
- Timothy B. Lee, Everyone who cares about free speech should care about the attacks on Github
- Andrew Gelman, Enough with the replication police
- Timothy Egan (NYT), The Conscience of a Corporation
Culture
- Sandy Patch (NYT), The Last Ice Merchant
- Kendra Eash, Honest LinkedIn Recommendations
- J. Kates, Wistful For A Time When We Could Laugh At Ourselves