Must Read
- Elise Gould, Wage inequality continued its 35-year rise in 2015
- Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Quit Your Job [Ed.: Much more nuanced than the title implies.]
- Dave Roberts, Got Denmark envy? Wait until you hear about its energy policies.
- Andrew Gelman, The problems with p-values are not just with p-values: My comments on the recent [American Statistical Association] statement
Should Read
- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Obama Doctrine
- Ben Shapiro, Trump’s Horrifying Anti-Military Slur At Last Night’s Debate Should Scare You
- David Cay Johnston, The real Trump tax scandal [Ed.: No, I have not forgotten The Trump Litany.]
- Jane Roper, The Winter That Wasn’t
- Corey Robin, Educate, Agitate, Organize
Urban Planning
- Simón Rios, Boston Plan Looks To Foster New Middle-Income Housing
- Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, [MA State] Senate Housing Report Advances Smart Growth
- Spencer Gardner, The Challenges of Building Rental Housing
- Steve Wright and Juan Mullerat, The Case Against Urban Corridors that act like High-Speed Highways
Economics and Trade
- Leonard E. Burman, William G. Gale, Sarah Gault, Bryan Kim, Jim Nunns and Steve Rosenthal, Financial transaction taxes in theory and practice
- Robert E. Scott, U.S.-Korea Trade Deal Resulted in Growing Trade Deficits and More Than 75,000 Lost U.S. Jobs
- Robert E. Scott and Elizabeth Glass, Trans-Pacific Partnership, currency manipulation, trade, and jobs: U.S. trade deficit with the TPP countries cost 2 million jobs in 2015, with job losses in every state
- Jared Bernstein, Real earnings, real anger
- Thomas Edsall (NYT), Why Trump Now?
- Eduardo Porter (NYT), Reviving the Working Class Without Building Walls
- Will Martin, The oil price crash is wreaking havoc with the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund
Defense
- Tyler Rogoway, The F-35 ‘Radar Bug’ Isn’t News And It’s The Least Of The Program’s Troubles
- Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt (NYT), ISIS Detainee’s Information Led to 2 U.S. Airstrikes, Officials Say
Foreign Policy
- Caroline Dorminey, John Bolton Looks to Roil the South China Sea
- Daniel Larison, Eleven Months of the Appalling War on Yemen
- Hillary’s Emails: Convenient Privileges vs Classified Trust
- Daniel Larison, ‘Credibility’ and Clinton’s Poor Foreign Policy Judgment
- Noah Millman, I’m Gonna Miss This President When He’s Gone
Politics
- Chris Dillow, Trump and Not Seeing Luck
- Charlie Pierce, Don’t Let Trump’s Antics Distract You From Cruz’s Unwavering Extremist Agenda
- Mike the Mad Biologist, The Politics of Hopelessness
- driftglass, How Conservatives Win
- Andrew O’Hehir, Stop laughing, Democrats! As the GOP goes down in flames, your post-Bernie civil war is almost here
- Mike the Mad Biologist, This Is Not The Historical Realignment We Were Hoping For
- Jacobin, Up From Liberalism
- Harold Meyerson, Why Bernie May Have a Better Shot at Winning in November than Hillary
Comeuppance
- David Streitfeld (NYT), In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Comeuppance
Environment
- Natasha Geiling, The Unexpected Reaction Farmers Could Have To Climate Change
- Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear (NYT), Obama and Canada’s Justin Trudeau Promote Ties and Climate Plan
Ending on a Positive Note