Must Read
- James Fallows, One of Our Major Newspapers Says: What the Hell, Why Not Start Another Unwinnable War?
- Robert Kuttner, Can Liberal Democracy Survive?
- Elise Gould, Not a Puzzle—Wages Growth is Sluggish Because Employers Hold All the Cards
Should Read
- Elise Gould, There Are Nearly Six Unemployed Construction Workers for Every Construction Job Opening
- Lydia DePillis and Jim Tankersley, To fix inequality, Democrats are pushing unions
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Slandering the 70s
- Robert Kuttner, Will the Fed Kill the Recovery Again?
- Robert Reich, The conundrum of corporation and nation
- driftglass, King Cotton: Party Like It’s 1862 [Ed.: Republican idiocy
on Iran.]
Republican Idiocy on Iran
- NY Times Editorial Board (NYT), Republican Idiocy on Iran
- Greg Jaffe, Who are the seven Republicans who didn’t sign the Iran letter?
Bipartisan Idiocy on Iran
- Ray Edroso, Gulf War III – Third Time’s the Charm
War
- Sarah Everts, When Chemicals Became Weapons of War
- Sergio Pecanha, Jeremy White and K.K. Rebecca Lai (NYT), Syria After Four Years of Mayhem
- Paul Waldman, Kicking the Iraq Syndrome On the Way to Tehran
Politics
- Kyle Trygstad, [Former Senator Jim] Webb Pitches Firefighters on Possible White House Bid
- Nicholas Confessore, Jonathan Martin, and Maggie Haberman, Democrats See No Choice but Hillary Clinton in 2016
- Ed O’Keefe and Robert Costa, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker emerging as front-runners for GOP nod — and rivals
Media Criticism
- Dahlia Remler, Academics Cost Less Than Journalists
Culture
- Nikole Hannah-Jones, A Letter From Black America: Yes, we fear the police. Here’s why.
- Peter Schmidt, Racism in Oklahoma Frat Video Is Widespread at Colleges, Researcher Says
- Matt Taibbi, For David Brooks, the Rich Are People, the Poor Are Numbers
Work
- Peter Schmidt, Adjunct Advocacy: Contingent faculty members are demanding—and getting—better working conditions
- Steve Blank, When Your Job Starts to Feel Toxic, It’s Time to Move On
- Jill Lepore, Richer and Poorer: Accounting for inequality.
Economics
- Annalisa Merilli, Pope Francis’s announcement of an extraordinary jubilee is great news for Italy’s economy
Tech
- Univ. of Michigan, Introduction: PID Controller Design
- Danny Crichton, On Secretly Terrible Engineers
- David Schaper, Silicon Prairie: Tech Startups Find A Welcoming Home In The Midwest
Sport
- Scott Lauber, Not all scouts agree, but Henry Owens confident
- Jeff Pini, Mookie Betts’s Big Day Further Proof He Should Be a Lock to Start, Lead Off
- Joey Daoud (NYT), The Greatest Bowling Story Ever Told
Miscellany
- Ronda Kaysen (NYT), New, but Far From Perfect: Construction Defects Follow a Brooklyn Building Boom
- Erica Goode (NYT), Farmers Put Down the Plow for More Productive Soil