Must Read
- Mike the Mad Biologist, We Need an Early Urban Primary
- Noah Smith, Free Trade With China Wasn’t Such a Great Idea for the U.S.
- Peter Dorman, Freedom: Three Varieties and a Caveat
- Jedediah Purdy, Sanders and the Theory of Change: Radical Politics for Grown-Ups
Should Read
- Norman Solomon, The Escalating Media Assault on Bernie Sanders
- David Dayen, What the Liberal Attacks on Bernie Sanders Are Really About
- Robert Kuttner, In Praise of Unrealistic Ideas
- Dan Kervick, Krugman the Forgetful
- David Dayen, For Trade Deal, Bad News Keeps Mounting
- Dan Charles, Guest Workers, Legal Yet Not Quite Free, Pick Florida’s Oranges
- Eric Chandler, The Fun Dome (#64): The Achievement Machine
Politics
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Three Things I Learned From Ronald Reagan
- Robert Reich, It Takes a Movement
- E. J. Dionne, Leading from the Left
- Jeff Spross, Do Democrats really care about the poor?
- Nate Cohn (NYT), Bernie Sanders Is Making Surprising Gains With Less Affluent Whites [NB: Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination be he isn’t a Democrat.]
- Bob Oakes and Shannon Dooling, In New Hampshire, Voter Frustration Spans The Political Spectrum
- Cedric Johnson, An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
- Glenn Greenwald, The “Bernie Bros” Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism [Ed.: Be that as it may, driftglass detects irony.]
- Corey Robin, Bernie and the Millennials
- Yves Smith, Krugman’s Cowardly, Dishonest Attack on David Dayen Over Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Sanders’ Financial Reforms
- Dave Johnson, Sanders Vows To Kill TPP If Elected. Will Clinton?
Economics
- Jared Bernstein, Jobs Day: Slower payroll growth but faster wage growth as we get closer to full employment
- Tim Duy, Solid Jobs Report Keeps Fed In Play
- Reuters, Republican Senator Portman opposes TPP trade deal in present form
- Matthew Yglesias, Bernie Sanders has the most realistic plan to boost wages and job creation
Health Care
Foreign Policy
- Peter Beinart, Why Attacking ISIS Won’t Make Americans Safer
- NPR, U.S. Presence In Eastern Europe Is Vital, Commanding General Says
- Michael Ballaban, Russia’s Military Is Behaving Like It’s Still The Cold War
- Kyle Mizokami, Russia’s military: Don’t believe the hype
Readings from The American Conservative
- Daniel Larison, How Cruz Won
- Rod Dreher, Ted Cruz Is Not What He Seems
- Daniel Larison, Santorum Endorses Rubio
- Daniel Larison, The Continuing Woes of the “Establishment”
- Daniel Larison, The U.S. Should Halt Its Support for the War on Yemen
Energy and Environment
- Amanda Page, California’s Rooftop Solar Industry Wins In Head To Head With Utilities
- Brad Plumer, Obama proposes a $10-per-barrel tax on oil to fund cleaner transportation
Science and Math
- Chad Orzel, Groundhog Day Physics: Four Stories You Hear Over And Over Again
- Andrew Gelman, Stat Podcast Plan
Culture
- Janna Malamud Smith, When You Have To Go, Here’s Hoping You Aren’t In Boston
- Rod Dreher, Birkenstocked Burkeans [Ed.: From 2002. “What we share is a disdain for, or at least a healthy suspicion of, mass culture.”]
Ending on a Positive Note
- Stephanie Strom (NYT), Cover Crops, a Farming Revolution With Deep Roots in the Past
- James Hamblin, M.D., If Our Bodies Could Talk: Beyond Meat