Must Read

• R.L. Stephens II, I often can’t afford groceries because of volatile work schedules at Gap [Ed.:  If one job isn’t enough to pay the bills then you get a second job.  But how do you hold a second (or third) job if you don’t know what your work schedule for your first job is?]
• Robert Borosage, Sanders and Trump: The Populist and the Demagogue
• Matt Taibbi, Inside the GOP Clown Car
• Maciej Ceglowski, Web Design: The First 100 Years
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Debt is Good [Ed.:  My thoughts on the subject from a couple years ago.]

Should Read

• Renee Loth, Socialist Propaganda: Will Everything Bernie Sanders Touches Turn Red?
• Roger Lowenstein, The Sometime Liberal
• Rep. Seth Moulton, The Iran Nuclear Deal: The Best Option on the Table
• Chad Orzel, Planning To Study Science In College? Here’s Some Advice
• Victor Fleischer (NYT), Stop Universities From Hoarding Money
• Dave Dayen, SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
• Veronica Pollack, Veronica Pollack Responds to an Internet Heckler

Politics

• Amanda Teuscher, A Toast to John Kasich, the GOP Debate’s Token “Moderate”
• Dave Roberts, Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change. Everything she said was wrong.
• Bruce Bartlett, The Moderate Republican’s Case for Trump
• Charlie Pierce, No, This Summer Is Not Like the 1968 Primary Season
• Paul Krugman (NYT), R-E-S-P-E-C-T
• Jennifer Epstein and Janet Lorin, Hillary Clinton to Outline $350 Billion College Affordability Pitch
• AP, Bernie Sanders Picks Up First Major Labor Endorsement
• Mike the Mad Biologist, In Which I Don My Tin Foil Helmet

Canada

• Josh Barro (NYT), A Debate With Substance. No, Not That Debate.
• Stephen Marche (NYT), The Closing of the Canadian Mind

Work

• Alyssa Davis, Job Openings Data Suggest the Economy is Chugging Along, Albeit Slowly
• Elise Gould, Prime-Age Employment-to-Population Ratio Remains Terribly Depressed
• Robert Solow,  The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren’t Keeping Up
• Dave Johnson, Bernie Sanders Proposes To Boost Worker-Ownership Of Companies

Culture?  I’m Not Sure How to Characterize This

• Dylan Mathews, I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.  [Ed.: Ceglowski’s post cited above speaks to why concern over The Singularity is just jerking off nuts.]

Culture

• #ILookLikeanEngineer

Housing

• Simon Rios, Mass. Advocates Warn Of Loss Of Thousands Of Affordable Housing Units

Science and Math

• Ron Driggers, Think Twice Before Declining a Manuscript Review Request
• Tyler Cowen, How to be a good referee
• Jamie Hall, 3 data science skills that economists can use

Ending on a Positive Note

• Tyler Kepner (NYT), A Minor League Home Run King Without Major Fanfare
• Marcus Ubungen, The 24 Hours of LeMons: ‘It’s Like Burning Man Meets Car Geeks’