Must Read

• Corey Robin, On Corruption at [City University of New York]  [Ed.:  1) On a similar theme, 2) Robin’s bottom line is why we need organizations like POGO.]
• Paul Waldmann, Here are 10 good questions for Hillary Clinton (if she ever has another press conference)
• Robert Frank (NYT), Take Back the House, Democrats.  Please.  [Ed.:  Good suggestion but beware of internally-created obstacles.]

Should Read

• Daniel Larison, Clinton’s American Legion Speech
• Daniel Larison, Our Warped Debates About War
• Robert Scott, Why is President Obama making one last push for the TPP?
• Chris Dillow, On Incompetence
• Jill Kaufman, Farmers In The Northeast Are Battling A Drought
• Union of Concerned Scientists, Recipe for a Better Food System
• Charlotte Du Cann, Flight Path – On Reading David Fleming’s ‘Surviving the Future’

Climate

• Damian Carrington, The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
• Gavin Schmidt, Australian silliness and July temperature records
• Justin Gillis (NYT), Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
• Jonathan Corum (NYT), A Sharp Increase in ‘Sunny Day’ Flooding
• Mark Lander and Jane Perlez (NYT), Obama and Xi Commit to Paris Climate Accord, Setting Aside Nations’ Rifts

Politics

• Eliza Newlin Carney, Nonprofit Structure Backfires on ‘Our Revolution’
• David Dayen, Will America Finally Stop Privatizing Everything?
• driftglass, Computer, What is the Nature of Conservatism?
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The ‘Alt-Right’ Have Always Been With Us: The Sartre Edition

Standing for the National Anthem

• Keith Woods, My Father Stood For The Anthem, For The Same Reason That Colin Kaepernick Sits
• Rod Dreher, Does Colin Kaepernick Hate America?
• Evan Moore, Colin Kaepernick and What White Fans Don’t Understand About Black Athletes
• NPR, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Calls Colin Kaepernick’s Concerns ‘Very Admirable’  [Ed.: Abdul-Jabbar with some choice words for uninformed voters towards the end of the piece.  Can’t say as I disagree.]

Standing up to Apple

• James Kanter and Mark Scott (NYT), Apple Owes $14.5 Billion in Back Taxes to Ireland, E.U. Says
• Robert Reich, Standing Up to Apple

Labor

• Penny Kim, I Got Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
• Mark Lause, The Cowboy Class Wars
• Daniel Geary, The Will and the Intellect

Health and Health Care

• Mike the Mad Biologist, Revoke Mylan’s Corporate Charter
• Ruth LovettSmith, EpiPen Prices: Once I Felt Grateful To Mylan, Now I Feel Co-Opted
• Richard Eskow, Health Care is a Right, Not a Business
• Julia Belluz, Within a year, antibacterial soaps as you know them will disappear from the market

Science and Engineering

• Taking apart a U-2 spy plane
• Kathleen Masterson, Software Teaches Your Basement Water Heater To ‘Store’ Renewable Energy
• Chad Orzel, The Hardest Thing To Grasp In Physics? Thinking Like A Physicist
• NY Times, Harnessing the “Firenado”
• Kate Murphy (NYT), Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch? [Ed.:  Be sure to click through on the link to the salmon study.]
• Cathy O’Neil, Donald Trump is like a biased machine learning algorithm

Ethics

• Cathy O’Neil, Tech industry self-regulates [Artificial Intelligence] ethics in secret meetings [Ed.:  A small but appropriate symbolic gesture in the face of tech industry weasels.]
  

Ending on a Positive Note

• Miranda Daniloff, The Ring Around The Three Of Us
• New York Defeats South Korea To Win [Little League World Series] Championship
• Strong Towns, Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage