Must Read
Should Read
- James Barilla, Gardening for Climate Change
- Binyamin Applebaum, In Tepid Wage Growth, a Potent Sign of a Still-Fragile Economy
Economics
- Suzanne Berger, How Finance Gutted Manufacturing
- Jennifer Medina, Hardship Makes a New Home in the Suburbs
- Lydia DePillis, Trucking used to be a ticket to the middle class. Now it’s just another low-wage job.
- Lydia DePillis, Study: With good jobs scarce, more twenty-somethings use the Army as a last resort
- Steve Earle, Home to Houston
- Dean Baker, Deficit Dogma Runs Deep Even at the New York Times
Politics
- driftglass, As His Batshit Chickens Come Home To Roost
- Andrew Prokop, Vermont calls for constitutional convention to limit money in politics
- Haley Sweetland Edwards, Should Martin O’Malley Be President?
- Wikipedia, Former Congressman Sherwood Boehlert [1]
Energy and Environment
- Jeff Spross, Get The Lead Out: How A Super-Efficient Solar Cell Technology Just Got Better
- Emily Atkin, Obama’s Move On Solar Is Equivalent To A Year Without 80 Million Cars
- Daniel Thorp, Fueling the Dragon’s Flames: China’s Pursuit of Energy Security in the Middle East
- Christina Sarich, Vermont Officially Passes GMO Labeling Bill, Monsanto Announces Lawsuit
- Lisa M. Hamilton, Native Lands
Public Health
Baseball
- SoxProspects, For Matt Spring, making the most out of a life in the minors
- Baseball Reference, Mike Hessman’s Minor League statistics
- Extra Bases, Red Sox Minor League Notebook: Matt Barnes Finding His Groove
Notes
- Boehlert was a good Congressman. I know of him because I used to read Chemical & Engineering News. He was a strong supporter of science and engineering and a pragmatic environmentalist. He moved things forward. Re driftglass’ post, Brooks and center-rightists of his ilk did zero to promote people like Boehlert. (Perhaps he wasn’t sexy enough? No ideology, just tried to solve problems.) It’s to their shame that they didn’t.