Must Read
- Patricia Cohen (NYT), Over 50, Female and Jobless Even as Others Return to Work
- Noam Scheiber and Patricia Cohen (NYT), For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions [Ed.: Related viewing at Popehat]
Should Read
- Jared Bernstein, Yes, Virginia…there is an aggressive and highly successful anti-tax lobby
- Cathy O’Neil, We could use some tools of social control to use on police
- Tamar Haspel, 10 things we should do to fix our broken food system
- Eli Rabett, Post Normal Policy
Climate Change
- Maddie Stone, LA’s Gas Leak Is a Global Disaster
- Robinson Meyer, The Storm That Will Unfreeze the North Pole [Ed.: “Unfreeze” is misleading but it got above freezing, which is much, much, much warmer than normal.]
- Justin Gillis (NYT), Climate Chaos, Across the Map
- Dahr Jamail, Climate Disruption Amplifies Atlantic Currents’ Contribution to Sea Level Rise
Health Care
- Sarah Kliff, Obamacare supporters don’t like talking about it — but the individual mandate is working
- Kevin Drum, Chart of the Day: The Uninsured Rate in America Just Keeps Dropping
- Ben Popper and Elizabeth Lapotto, Silicon Valley is confusing pseudo-science with innovation
Science
- ScienceDaily, Genetic secret of mosquito resistance to DDT, bed net insecticides discovered
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Scientific Writing Is Really Boring
Politics
- Jeff Spross, The embarrassing truth about SpaceX
- Robert Kreitner,When the Berlin Wall Fell, Bernie Sanders Didn’t Respond Like Other Politicians: Instead of heralding “the end of history,” Sanders called on Americans to take the revolutions of 1989 as a model.
- Chris Dillow, Stalin’s Trick [Ed.: He’s writing of the UK but it is entirely applicable here.]
Ending on a Positive Note