Must Read

• NASA, New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated
• Bruce Bartlett, Jeb’s tax plan makes George W. Bush’s policies look good
• Rima Regas, Bernie Bias: The Mainstream Media Undermines Sanders at Every Turn
• Ezekiel Emanuel (NYT), The Solution to Drug Prices

Should Read

• Peter Loftus, Bernie Sanders to Introduce Bill Targeting High Drug Prices
• Domenico Montanaro and Tamara Keith, Fact Check: Hillary Clinton’s Email Defense Is A Mixed Bag
• Garry Emmons, Sports Superfans, Deflategate Obsession And America’s Collective I.Q.
• Robert Reich, What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?
• Chris Shelton, Why Workers Need the Working Families Party
• Daniel Larison, Scowcroft, the GOP, and the Nuclear Deal
• Tyler Rogoway, So What the Hell Is Russia Doing In Syria Exactly?

Labor

• Paul Krugman (NYT), Productivity and Pay
• Harold Meyerson, Happy Labor Day — Really
• WBUR “On Point”, Why Do We Work?
• Thomas Kochan, Organized Labor’s Challenge In 21st Century America
• Cathy O’Neil, Big data, disparate impact, and the neoliberal mindset
• David Gelles (NYT), At WeWork, an Idealistic Start-Up Clashes With Its Cleaners
• Clive Thompson (NYT), Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department

Economics

• Catherine Rampell, The GOP’s self-defeating budget flaw
• Jared Bernstein, Jeb Bush’s new tax plan: A revenue-eating wolf in sheep’s clothing

Politics

• Dan Drezner, The most damning part of Donald Trump’s political rise
• Thomas Edsall (NYT), What Donald Trump Understands About Republicans
• Nate Silver, Stop Comparing Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders
• Tom Levenson, In Which David Brooks Sets A World Record For Long Jump Over A Shark*
• Heather Digby Parton, Why Ben Carson’s rapid surge in the polls should have you very, very worried
• Maggie Haberman, Hillary Clinton, Citing Her ‘Mistake,’ Apologizes for Private Email
• Patrick Healy (NYT), Big-Name Plan B’s for Democrats Concerned About Hillary Clinton
• Charlie Pierce, We Need to Talk About the Democratic National Committee Chairperson

Iran Nuclear Deal

• Max Fisher, The GOP’s new Iran deal plan is cynical, dishonest, and politically brilliant
• Peter Baker and Julia Hirshfeld Davis (NYT), Nuclear Deal Sealed, Obama Must Now Make It Work, and Mend Fences  [Ed.:  “Make it work.”  One of the reasons that I supported the deal was that I perceive it to Kerry’s when it came to make sure all the i’s were dotted and t’s were crossed.  I trust Kerry to get details right much more than I trust Obama to do so.]

Science

• Sarah Bollanti, et al., Electro-optical sun compass with a very high degree of accuracy
• Mark Harris, Researcher Hacks Self-driving Car Sensors
• Peter Sheridan Dodds, et al., Tracking climate change through the spatiotemporal dynamics of the Teletherms, the statistically hottest and coldest days of the year [Ed.:  Very interesting analysis.  I like it.]
• Lizzie Wade, Climate Change Means One World’s Death and Another’s Birth
• Joel Achenbach, Is there a Planet X, a ‘massive perturber’, hidden beyond Pluto?

Health Care

• Gina Kolata (NYT), What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn

Ending on a Positive Note

• Matt Miller, Kansas State Marching Band Apologizes After Mass-Scale ‘Blowjob’ Incident [Ed.:  Incredibly stupid but funny.]
• Tyler Kepner (NYT), A King of Sliders Surmounts a Fall