Must Read/Listen
- Tim Egan, Fools at the Fire
- Paul Waldman, The New York Times Finally Comes Around on “Torture”
- Radio Open Source, Andrew Bacevich: America’s War for the Greater Middle East
Should Read
- Military Times, DoD quietly expanding AFRICOM missions
- Martin Longman, It’s Not Easy to Hold the CIA Accountable
- Jared Bernstein, Inequality and Growth: What I Think We Know and Don’t Know
- Kevin Drum, Chart of the Day: How Austerity Wrecked the Recovery
- Thomas Kochan, How Market Basket Can Right Its Course
- Thomas Kochan, Market Basket: The Worst Case Scenario
Environment
- Andrew Revkin, U.S. Coal Exports Eroding Domestic Greenhouse Gains
- Corey Paul, Wolfcamp Shale to see $12 billion worth of investments this year
- Emily Atkin, As The Planet Warms, Scientists Say More People Will Go Without Food And Water
- Mark Dwortzan, Dispatch From A Post-Carbon World: Planting The Seeds For A More Resilient Future
- Emily Atkin, 7 Things You Need To Know About The Toxin That’s Poisoned Ohio’s Drinking Water
- Michael Wines (NY Times), Behind Toledo’s Water Crisis, a Long-Troubled Lake Erie
- Steve Orr, Sodus Bay [New York] a national test area for toxic algae prevention
Science
Politics
- Kevin Drum, Living in the World That Fox News Built
- Anna Clark, Will Economic Populism Win Back the Midwest for Democrats?
- Mike Konczal, Let’s Hope the GAO Report Ends the Too-Big-to-Fail Subsidy Distraction
Food Stamps
Economics
- Neal Irwin, Why Is the Economy Still Weak? Blame These Five Sectors
- Robert Kuttner, Cold Porridge For Regular People: The Myth of the Goldilocks Economy
- Dean Baker, What’s Holding the Economy Back: Revised Version
- Dean Baker, Inequality: Don’t Blame the Market
- Arindrajit Dube, Casual versus Causal Inference: Time series edition
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Noam Chomsky, On Israel-Palestine and BDS
- Noam Chomsky, Nightmare in Gaza
On the Lighter Side: Baseball