Must read
- Brad DeLong, Is Growth Getting Harder? If so, Why, and What Can We Do About It?
- IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Are STEM Workers Overpaid?
Should read
- Robert Gordon, Is US Economic Growth Over? (or Thomas Edsall, No More Industrial Revolutions? for a summary of Gordon’s paper)
- IEEE Spectrum Magazine, The STEM Crisis is a Myth: An Ongoing Discussion
Economics
- Boston.com, Mass., Conn., RI senators want more jobless help
- Rob Valletta and Katherine Kuang, Extended Unemployment and UI Benefits
- Henry Farber and Rob Valletta, Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
- Tim Egan, Dystopia by the Bay
- Income Percentile Calculator – Find Your Percent With WhatsMyPercent.com
Environment
- NY Times, In New Jersey Pines, Trouble Arrives on Six Legs
- Providence Journal, R.I. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s 50th climate-change warning
- NY Times, Panel Says Global Warming Carries Risk of Deep Changes
- US EPA, Carbon Dioxide Emissions
- The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, What’s Behind the ‘Good News’ Declines in U.S. CO2 Emissions?
- RealClimate, Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half
- RealClimate, What ocean heating reveals about global warming
Health Care
- NY Times, As Hospital Prices Soar, a Single Stitch Tops $500
- The Incidental Economist, Chart: Growth trajectory of national health expenditures
- Austin Frakt, Erosion of confidence in the confident market solution
Politics
- Washington Post, WhoRunsGov (search engine for finding out who runs what govt agency or what govt agency someone’s associated with)
- David Sirota, Detroit’s financial criminals leave evidence the size of a hockey stadium
- Matt Taibbi, Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality
- Slate.com, Elizabeth Warren vs Third Way: Legislative subtweeting at its finest.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Letter to the CEOs of six big banks
- NY Times, Coalition of Liberals Strikes Back at Criticism From Centrist Democrats
Arts
- Kim Steele, Machine Age
- NY Times, Saul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York’s Palette, Dies at 89
Miscellany
- Peter Beinart, Don’t Sanitize Nelson Mandela: He’s Honored Now, But Was Hated Then
- Brookings Institution, A New Model for Defense Intelligence
- NY Times, Using a Rough Surface to Stay Dry
- Boston.com, Record homelessness overwhelming shelters
- WBUR, MBTA To Pilot Late-Night Weekend Service In 2014