Must Read
- Ezra Klein, A health industry expert on ‘the fundamental problem with Obamacare’
- NY Times, Federal Contracts Plunge, Squeezing Private Companies
- Jeff Spross, Unfortunately, The World Is Still Barreling Towards Climate Cataclysm
Should Read
- NY Times, Administration Is Seen as Retreating on Environment in Talks on Pacific Trade
- Mike Konczal, No, we don’t spend $1 trillion on welfare each year
- NY Times, Iran Nuclear Deal to Take Effect Jan. 20, Officials Say
Environment and Climate
- Nicolas Kristof, ‘Neglected Topic’ Winner: Climate Change
- Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt, A Bit More Sensitive…
- Daniel Swain, Ridiculously Resilient Ridge
- Justin Gillis, The Flood Next Time
- NY Times, Celebrating Deep Freeze, Insect Experts See a Chance to Kill Off Invasive Species
- The Charleston (WV) Gazette, State acknowledges it had no plan for Freedom spill
Economics
- Robert Shiller, The Financial Fire Next Time
- John Aziz, Why stopping the next financial crash is an impossible dream
- Paul Krugman, Why We Talk About the One Percent
- NY Times, Eminent Domain: a Long Shot Against Blight
- Wall Street Journal, Codeacademy Chief Says Computer Programming Holds the Key
Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs
- Monica Potts, What’s Killing Poor White Women?
- No More Mister Nice Blog, Alternatively, I Suppose All Those Ex-Coal Miners in Kentucky Could Just Become New-Media Entrepreneurs
- Matthew Yglesias, Welfare works for kids: Children whose parents get money grow up healthier and live longer.
- Jared Bernstein, The Conservative Response to the War on Poverty – so far
Science
- Andrew Gelman, Advice on writing research articles
- Dennis Overbye, Over the Side With Old Scientific Tenets
- Forbes, 30 Under 30 – Science & Healthcare
- Univ. of Washington Libraries, Choosing a Citation Manager: EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero – Citations and Writing
Politics
- Harold Meyerson, Dan Cantor’s Machine (CG: New York’s Working Families Party)
- Charlie Pierce, Brian Schweitzer 2016 Run – Montana’s Wild Hack
Human Interest