Must Read

• Larry Mishel and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Stark Choices: “People’s Budget” vs. Republican Plan
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Liberals, Conservatives, and Jobs
• Charlie Pierce, The Warren Effect: Here Is A Bluff That Needs To Be Called
• Boston Globe Editorial Board, Democrats need Elizabeth Warren’s voice in 2016 presidential race

Should Read

• Matt Taibbi, Hillary Clinton Is Turning Into Richard Nixon and Bill Belichick
• Robert Kuttner, 7 Reasons Why the 99 Percent Keeps Losing
• Robert Scott, What’s Wrong with the [Transpacific Partnership (TPP)]? This deal will lead to more job loss and downward pressures on the wages of most working Americans
• Brad Plumer, The Gulf Stream system may already be weakening. That’s not good.
• Adam Clark Estes, Missing Restricted Military Gear Keeps Popping Up on eBay
• Thomas Piketty, Student Loan Debt Is the Enemy of Meritocracy in the US [Ed.:  See also Mike Konczal, The [University of North Carolina] Coup and the Second Limit of Economic Liberalism]

Education

• Todd Frankel, U.S. millennials post ‘abysmal’ scores in tech skills test, lag behind foreign peers
• Susan Dynarski (NYT), We’re Frighteningly in the Dark About Student Debt
• George Joseph, 9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools—Here’s Their Story
• Megan Erickson, Edutopia

Politics

• Susanne Craig (NYT), [NY Gov. Andrew] Cuomo Is Called Controlling but a ‘Contender’ in an Unauthorized Biography
• Maggie Haberman (NYT), Hillary Clinton Caught Between Dueling Forces on Education: Teachers and Wealthy Donors
• John R. MacArthur, French Fiction Reveals Faux Democracy
• Adam Liptak (NYT), First Amendment, ‘Patron Saint’ of Protesters, Is Embraced by Corporations
• Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, In 2016 campaign, the lament of the not quite rich enough

The Loneliness of the Not-Crazy Conservative

• Paul Krugman, The Loneliness of the Not-Crazy Conservative
• Katie Valentine, Thanks to Conservatives, Florida Is Now One Step Closer to Making Solar Energy More Accessible
• Bruce Bartlett
• David Frum
• Reihan Salam

Foreign Affairs

• Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, The new authoritarianism
• Reuters, Thai PM Prayuth warns media, says has power to execute reporters
• Michael Ballaban, Russia Threatens To Nuke Denmark, Of All Places
• Thomas Erdbrink (NYT), Meet Our Man in Tehran
• Mona El-Naggar (NYT), A Close-Up of Unfolding Unrest in Yemen
• Charlie Pierce, Mongering The War in The Times

Defense

• Tyler Rogoway, What America Can Learn From Russia’s Cheap But Deadly T90 Tank
• Nan Levinson, America’s New Military Mystique [Ed.:  See also James Fallows, The Tragedy of the American Military]

Economics

• Paul Krugman (NYT), This Snookered Isle:  Britain’s Terrible, No-Good Economic Discourse
• Bloomberg News, Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Are Short of Last Year’s Pace
• Victoria Stilwell, U.S. Home Prices Are Surging 13 Times Faster Than Wages

Environment

• Derek Watkins (NYT), Arctic Ice Reaches a Low Winter Maximum
• Katie Valentine, Costa Rica Has Gotten All Of Its Electricity From Renewables For 75 Days Straight
• Clare Foran, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul Said Congress Shouldn’t Act on Climate Change—But 5 Republicans Disagreed (Two Democrats, on the other hand, voted with the GOP.)
• Robert Shiller (NYT), How Idealism, Expressed in Concrete Steps, Can Fight Climate Change

Baseball

• Peter Abraham, Red Sox’ J.T. Watkins soldiering on in pursuit of dream:  West Point grad dreams of being pressed into service with Sox
• Eric Wilbur, Ryan Westmoreland: Off the Red Sox, But Back in the Game
• Ben Lindbergh, 2015 AL East Preview: Cue the Inevitable Red Sox Resurgence

Culture

• Andrea Shea, Saving A Slaughterhouse: Why Groton Rallied Behind Blood Farm
• Judith Shulevitz (NYT), In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas
• Meghan O’Gieblyn, The End