Must Read
- Steve Almond, What If Donald Trump Were Covered Like Hillary Clinton?
- Andrea Bernstein, How September 11th Revealed the Real Hillary Clinton
- Alison Murphy, 15 Years Later And Wondering: Is Getting Used To Terrorism A Good Thing?
- Ian Millhiser, DOJ catches Texas violating the court order against its voter suppression law
Should Read
- Mike the Mad Biologist
- Barry Ritholtz, Can Senator Warren Jumpstart Financial Crisis Prosecutions?
- Chris Dillow, The dying bird of globalization
- Mean Squared Errors, The Microfoundations Hoax
- Werner Herzog inspirational posters
- Noah Millman, Failures to Communicate
- ScienceDebate.org, The Candidates’ Views on America’s Top 20 Science, Engineering, Tech, Health & Environmental Issues in 2016
- Chris Brooks and Rebecca Givan, Defending Labor’s School
Economics and Politics
- Binyamin Applebaum (NYT), U.S. Household Income Grew 5.2 Percent in 2015, Breaking Pattern of Stagnation
- Binyamin Applebaum, Patricia Cohen, and Jack Healy (NYT), A Rebounding Economy Remains Fragile for Many
- James Kwak, Yay! We’re Almost as Rich as We Were in 1998!
- Mary Williams Walsh (NYT), A Sour Surprise for Public Pensions: Two Sets of Books
- Bill Moyers, How America became a 1% society
- Michael Shear (NYT), Colin Powell, in Hacked E-mail, Shows Scorn for Trump and Irritation at Clinton
- Charlie Pierce, Colin Powell Needs to Sit the Next Few Plays Out
Politics, cont’d: Trump is Full of Shit and So Are His Enablers
- Charles Bagli (NYT), A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks
- Neil Irwin (NYT), The Arithmetic in Donald Trump’s Jobs Plan Doesn’t Really Work
- Chad Stone and Chye-Ching Huang, Trump Campaign’s “Dynamic Scoring” of Revised Tax Plan Should Be Taken With More Than a Grain of Salt
- Michael Mazerov, Kansas’ Tax Cut Experience Refutes Economic Growth Predictions of Trump Tax Advisors
- Charlie Pierce, Paul Ryan Is Here to Save the Day (Nah)
And don’t forget this or this or this or this or this. My contempt for Trump is perhaps only outdone by my contempt for those who will vote for him. Moving on…
Foreign Policy
- Daniel Larison, Trump’s Plunder Doctrine
- Daniel Larison, Why the Myth of ‘Retreat’ Won’t Die
- Daniel Larison, Obama’s Futile Efforts at ‘Reassuring’ Bad Clients
Civics
- Hayden Bird, [New England Patriots player] Chris Long offered a nuanced answer on fellow NFL players’ right to protest
Education
- Peter Hinricks, Trends in Expenditures by US Colleges and Universities, 1987-2013
- Adam Grant (NYT), Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
- Corey Robin, What happens when a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history?
- Corey Robin, Anti-Semitism at CUNY? At Brooklyn College? In the Department of Political Science?
- Claire Cortese, How The University Of New Hampshire Chose To Waste An Alum’s $4m Gift
Health and Health Care
- Dean Baker, EpiPen Lobbying Campaign: Fruits of Protectionism Like TPP
- Carey Goldberg, ‘The Mind-Gut Connection’: Could Your Gut Microbes Be Affecting How You Feel?
Science, Environment and Public Policy
- MIT, Judging a Book Through its Cover
- Tim Wallace (NYT), Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat
- xkcd, Earth Temperature Timeline
- Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
- Michael Greenstone (NYT), Americans Appear Willing to Pay for a Carbon Tax Policy
Ending on a Positive Note
- Richard Fausset (NYT), A Glorified Sidewalk, and the Path to Transform Atlanta
- Jonah Engel Bromwich and Nicholas St. Fluer (NYT), Why Pluto’s Moon Charon Wears a Red Cap