Must Read/Listen

• Kenneth Thomas, Obamacare hasn’t killed full-time jobs, either
• Paul Krugman (NYT), The Fed Should Remember the 90s
• Matt Taibbi, The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia
• NPR, Law Professor: [Rowan County KY clerk Kim] Davis Can’t Evoke Religion To Deny Marriage Licenses
• Charlie Pierce, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Are Calling for a Revolution

Should Read

• Noam Scheiber (NYT), As His Term Wanes, Obama Champions Workers’ Rights [Ed.:  A good thing and it’s about time.]
• Ross Eisenbrey, NLRB Decision in Browning-Ferris Restores Employer Accountability for Wages and Working Conditions
• Dean Baker, A Public Service Announcement: The Bureau of Labor Statistics Budget
• Sabrina Tavernise (NYT), Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success [Ed.: Use of long-acting birth control reduces birthrates.  Wow, who knew?]

Economics

• Olivier Blanchard, Stop calling it the “Sharing Economy.” That isn’t what it is.
• Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel, Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker’s Pay
• Brad DeLong, No, the Federal Reserve Is Not a Market Manipulator

Politics

• driftglass, Donald Trump’s Vile, Brilliant Ad
• Dylan Mathews, Donald Trump isn’t rich because he’s a great investor. He’s rich because his dad was rich.
• Lewis Lapham, Tentacles of Rage
• Mark Thoma on Richard Reeves’ ‘The Dangerous Separation of the American Upper Middle Class’
• Conor Friedersdorf, Hillary 2016’ Has Never Made Sense for Democrats [Ed.:  I usually don’t think much of Friedersdorf’s pieces but I think he’s onto something with this one.]
• Kyle Cheney and Ben Schreckinger, Diminishing Democratic governors look for answers
• Touré Reed, Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

Public Health and Health Care

• Zach Beauchamp, Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
• Colin Loftin, et al., Effects of Restrictive Licensing of Handguns on Homicide and Suicide in the District of Columbia
• Richard Eskow, The “Cadillac” Tax is Coming, And Could Hit Your Midsize Health Plan
• Peter Sullivan, [Sen. Bernie] Sanders to introduce bill targeting high drug prices

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Science

• Matt Leifer, Can the quantum state be interpreted statistically?
• Tim Babb, How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
• Bethany Halford, How Tulane University’s Chemists Rescued Their NMRs From Hurricane Katrina