Must Read
- Matt Taibbi, Why Are So Many Pundits Trashing the Pope?
- Peter Dreier, Is Bernie Sanders Too Radical for America?
- K. Sabeel Rahman, Curbing the New Corporate Power [Ed.: Rahman’s piece is worth reading in and of itself but it’s the responses which make it a “must read”; see in particular Dean Baker’s.]
- Joseph Stiglitz, Europe’s Attack on Greek Democracy
Should Read
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Glimpses of Our Dystopian Neo-Liberal Future: Electrical Power in Virginia
- Robert Pear (NYT), Health Insurance Companies Seek Big Rate Increases for 2016 [Ed.: It’s great that people who wouldn’t otherwise have coverage are getting it because of the ACA. Unfortunately, the ACA doesn’t significantly address cost. We spend a ton of money on health care compared to nations with comparable life expectancies. The ACA has no direct mechanism for reining that it.]
- David Atkins, Another Opportunity to Test Who is Right About the Economy
- Yael T. Abouhalkah, Dismal budget news just blocked out the sun in Gov. Sam Brownback’s Kansas
- Eric Wilbur, Pawtucket’s McCoy Stadium endangered for no good reason [Ed.: I haven’t been to McCoy in probably 20 years but I enjoyed it even pre-renovation.]
Math and Science
- Andrew Gelman and Christian Robert, “Not Only Defended But Also Applied”: The Perceived Absurdity of Bayesian Inference
Environment and Energy
- Eric Roston, What’s Really Warming the World?
- … and Then There’s Physics, My issue with Ecomodernism
- Natasha Geiling, New Study Says There’s A Smarter Way to Deforest
- Razem Naam, Solar Cost Less than Half of What EIA Projected
- Mike the Mad Biologist, National Security and U.S. Energy Infrastructure
Economics
- Dave Johnson, Now We Build a Fair Trade Movement
- Larry Mishel and Alyssa Davis, Top CEOs Make 300 Times More than Typical Workers: Pay Growth Surpasses Stock Gains and Wage Growth of Top 0.1 Percent
- Greece
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Geographical Notes on Puerto Rico
Politics
- Jon Schwatz, Bernie Sanders on Obama’s “Biggest Mistake”
- Alex Seitz-Wald, Bernie Sanders draws biggest crowd of any 2016 candidate yet
- Chris Dillow, Inequality, The State, and The Left
- John Quiggin, John Locke Against Freedom: John Locke’s classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It’s a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
Government
- Jared Bernstein, The Supreme Court and Obamacare: Somehow, common sense prevailed
- Ann Kiessling, Stay Involved With Your Government
- Project on Government Oversight, More Calls for Access to [Congressional Research Service]’s Formal Reports
- Project on Government Oversight, POGO Welcomes Leadership Change at VA Inspector General
Defense
- Richard Sisk, GAO Rejects Air Force Arguments to Retire A-10 Warthog Fleet
- David Axe, Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
- Arthur C. Clarke, Superiority
History
- Allison Pohle, Who were the men of the 54th infantry regiment?
Culture
- Cathy O’Neil, Advertisement or… negotiation?
- William Spriggs, Economics as Religion
- Patricia Miller, Why Catholic Americans are rejecting the Pope: They worship the free market now
Lighter Stuff
- Gas vs. Charcoal? Try Grilling Your Steak Over Lava
- Deborah Heiligman, The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdös
- Sam Haysom, This graffiti artist’s ‘experiment’ with the authorities escalated hilariously
- Local fireworks the other night: