Must Read
- Naomi Oreskes, A “Green” Bridge to Hell
- Carey Goldberg, ‘Cowboy’ Doctors Could Be A Half-A-Trillion-Dollar American Problem
- Eric Chandler, Running vs Running Away
Should Read
- Jonathan S. Landay and Ali Watkins, CIA admits it broke into Senate computers; senators call for spy chief’s ouster
- Tom Ricks, Why Am I Moving Left?
- Jessica Bruder, The End of Retirement
- Brad DeLong, [CA Republican candidate for Governor] Neel Kashkari Finds Out: Low Employment Not Due to Skill Mismatch or “Structural” Factors
Economics
- Jared Bernstein, Do not…I repeat, do not…be afraid of big numbers!
- Jared Bernstein, The Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
- Paul Krugman, Useless Expertise
Health Care
- Sarah Kliff, Each of these Hepatitis C pills cost $1,000. That’s actually a great deal.
- Dean Baker, More Confusion on Sovaldi and Government Granted Monopolies at the Washington Post
Politics
- Theodore Schleifer (NY Times), Religious Conservatives Embrace Proposed E.P.A. Rules
- Sue Sturgis, The Money Behind Big Oil’s Win On Atlantic Drilling
- Charlie Pierce, So What?
Foreign Affairs
- Mr. Fish, Cell Damage
- Max Fisher, This chart shows every person killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2000 [Ed.: Each person killed as of mid-July 2014. There have been quite a few more killed over the past few weeks.]
Science and Technology
- Airbus Defense & Space, First images from SPOT 7 satellite within three days after launch
- NASA, NASA-JAXA’s New Precipitation Satellite Sees First Atlantic Hurricane
- NASA, OCO-2 Takes the A-Train to Study Earth’s Atmosphere
- Farhad Manjoo (NY Times), Lytro’s Illum Is a Camera for Serious Photographers
Baseball
- The Throw: