Must Read
- Nancy Carlsson-Paige, How Ed Policy is Hurting Early Childhood Education
- Atul Gawande, Modern Medicine Changed the Way We Die, and Not Always for the Better
- , Exploding wealth inequality in the United States
- Dean Baker, David Brooks’ Great Adventures in Fantasy Land
Should Read/Listen
- Radio Open Source, Is Capitalism Working?
- Bruce Bartlett, Obama Is a Republican
- Doug Henwood, Stop Hillary!
- “Today Is The 10th Anniversary Of Jon Stewart’s Epic Rant On CNN. He Hasn’t Been Back Since.”
Economics
- Paul Krugman, Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Recent Report on [the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program’s] Responsiveness to the Recession Has Serious Flaws
- Matt O’Brien, The bottom 90 percent are poorer today than they were in 1987
- Ron Lieber, Combating a Flood of Early 401(k) Withdrawals
- Matt O’Brien, Quantitative easing reduced inequality, a top Fed official says
- Jackie Calmes, Economists See Limited Gains in G.O.P. Plan
- Josh Barro, Kansas Faces Additional Revenue Shortfalls After Tax Cuts
- Economic Policy Institute, How Mainstream Economic Thinking Imperils America
- Dan Drezner, Five known unknowns about the future of the global economy
Math and Statistics
- Andrew Gelman, How do companies use Bayesian methods?
Environment
- James Kanter, European Leaders Agree on Targets to Fight Climate Change
- Joe Romm, NPR Guts Its Environment And Climate Reporting Team, Becomes ‘Part Of The Problem’
Miscellany
- Brenda Ann Kenneally, Upstate Girls
- Ted Flanagan, The Power To Reverse An Overdose, The Powerlessness To Prevent The Next One
- Michael Tortorello, Apple Picking Season Is Here. Don’t You Want More Than a McIntosh?