Must Read
- Gordon Marino, A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’
- Jacob Wood and Ken Harbaugh, The Limits of Armchair Warfare
- Robert Shiller, Buying Insurance Against Climate Change
Should Read/Listen
- Matt O’Brien, The odds you’ll join the ranks of the long-term unemployed
- WBUR, Amherst College Makes Sacrifices To Enroll Low-Income Students
- Michael Kazin, Bernie Sanders 2016 Campaign: Why Democrats Need Him to Run
Politics
- Jonathan Weisman, Economic Recovery Yields Few Benefits for the Voters Democrats Rely On
- Joe Nocera, Bankrupt Housing Policy
- Robert Borosage, What Is the New Populism?
- Boston Herald, Deval Patrick stuns with push for [Democratic] primary
- Michael D. Shear and Jonathan Weisman, Veteran Scandal Aggravates Woes Of White House
Economics
- Paul Krugman, Unemployment: It’s Not Personal
- Mike Konczal, Not Just the Long-Term Unemployed: Those Unemployed Zero Weeks Are Struggling to Find Jobs
- David Wiczer, The Recession’s Effect on Job Churn
- Paul Krugman, Cheese-eating Job Creators
Science
- Andrew Gelman, Forum in Ecology on p-values and model selection
- Brian McGill, Are US researchers slowly boiled frogs? – or thinking out of the box about the future of NSF
- Denise Brehm (MIT News Office), What’s in your air?
Environment
- Coral Davenport, Tom Steyer Hopes NextGen Climate Gets Voters to Consider Environment
- Jim Hansen (interviewed by Tom Ashbrook), Antarctic Melt And Calls For Action
- Jeff Spross, The Coal Ash Sludge In The Dan River Is Finally Getting Vacuumed Up
- Jennifer Medina, In California, Climate Issues Moved to Fore by Governor
Foreign Affairs
- Andrew Higgins, Far Right Fever for a Europe Tied to Russia
- Neil MacFarquhar and David Herzenhorn, Ukraine Crisis Pushing Putin Toward China
Miscellany
- Miya Tokumitsu, In the Name of Love
- Gabriel Arana, The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media
- Andrew Gelman, Never back down: The culture of poverty and the culture of journalism
- Rosie Schaap, What Are You Drinking?
- Eric Asimov, Summer’s Winners: 20 Wines for $20