Must Read

• Verena von Pfetten (NYT), Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?)
• Brett Bloom, Learning Carefully from the Sea

Should Read

• Steve Randy Waldman, Tragedy of the technocrats
• Gillian White, A Conversation With Joseph Stiglitz
• Mike the Mad Biologist, What Class Privilege Looks Like
• Andrew O’Hehir, Bernie’s greatest legacy: Suddenly, it’s OK to question capitalism!
• Erik Olin Wright, How to Think About (And Win) Socialism
• Rich Puchalsky, You have more than one vote

Tax Policy

• David Cay Johnson, What All the Candidates’ Tax Plans Are Missing

Drumpf

• Josh Bivens, How bad are Trump’s policy instincts? He’s taking tax advice from Kansas governor Sam Brownback
• Donald Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy Speech [Full Transcript]
• Thomas Wright, Five things we “learned” from Trump’s foreign policy speech

Politics

• Matt Taibbi, The Line That May Have Won Hillary Clinton the Nomination
• Corey Robin, When Neoliberalism Was Young: A Lookback on Clintonism before the Clintons
• Corey Robin, Neoliberalism: A Quick Follow-up
• Larry Mishel, Tired of economists’ misdirection on globalization

Culture

• Cathy O’Neil, Tom Slee’s What’s Yours is Mine
• Wade Roush, Beyond The Science Wars: Stories Of A Shared Future

Arts and Sciences

• Eli Rabett, Science and Engineering
• Kenneth Chang (NYT), Makemake, the Moonless Dwarf Planet, Has a Moon After All
• Blake Gopnik (NYT), Cindy Sherman Takes On Aging (Her Own)

Ending on a Positive Note

• Natalia Osipova (NYT), Growing Organics ‘Sin Fronteras’