Must Read

• Mike Konczal, The [University of North Carolina] Coup and the Second Limit of Economic Liberalism
• Robert Kuttner, Obama’s Obama:  The contradictions of Cass Sunstein [Ed.:  Behind Harper’s paywall.  Worth the price of a subscription.]
• Elise Gould, Why America’s Workers Need Faster Wage Growth—And What We Can Do About It
• David Sanger and William Broad (NYT), Pentagon Studies Reveal Major Nuclear Problems

Should Read

• Andrew Bacevich, Even if we defeat the Islamic State, we’ll still lose the bigger war
• Dan Drezner, The low-down, dirty truth about Grubergate [Ed.:  Don’t ever call voters “stupid” or “uninformed”.  Doesn’t matter if it’s true.  Don’t do it.]
• The Oatmeal, Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I’m going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works
• Bethany McLean (NYT), A House Is Not a Credit Card
• Kate Murphy (NYT), The Ethics of Infection

Politics

• Roberto Scalese, [MA Governor-elect] Charlie Baker’s Latest Cabinet Pick
• Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. Expects $5 Billion From Program That Funded Solyndra
• Jack Healy (NYT), Colorado Ousts Pro-Gun Republicans, Showing Effect of Turnout
• Jonathan Martin (NYT), After Losses, Liberal and Centrist Democrats Square Off on Strategy
• Robert Kuttner, Congressman From Goldman Sachs Vying to Lead Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• Ben White, Elizabeth Warren to oppose Antonio Weiss as Treasury undersecretary
• Charlie Pierce, Why Not Al Franken in 2016?

Science

• MIT New Office, Irwin Oppenheim, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 84 [Ed.:  I just learned of his passing from the Chem. Dept. newsletter.  I took Statistical Mechanics from him as a first-year grad student.  He was an excellent teacher.   I feared him, but not in a bad way.  He insisted in a low-key but unambiguous manner that his students do good work.  He was there to help but you needed to be prepared and to give 100%.]
• Retraction Watch, Overly honest references: “Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?”
• David Kaiser (NYT), Is Quantum Entanglement Real?
• Andrew Gelman, “The Statistical Crisis in Science”: My talk in the psychology department Monday 17 Nov at noon
• Raypierre Humbert, Keystone XL: Game Over?

Climate Change: Politics

• Mark Landler (NYT), U.S. and China Reach Climate Deal After Months of Talks
• Paul Krugman (NYT), China, Coal, Climate
• Paul Waldman, The Keystone XL Issue May Be Resolved With—Shocker—Democratic Capitulation

Economics

• Paul Krugman (NYT), On Income Stagnation