Must Read/Watch
- Sen. Bernard Sanders, Letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman
- Timothy Noah interviewing Thomas Geoghegan, Why the Democrats Need Labor Again
- WGBH, Redefining the Middle Class, A yearlong series on income inequality: The Middle Class Is Retreating Outside Route 128
- The Daily Show, The Homeless Homed
Should Read
- Jim Tankersley, America’s got talent but it’s flowing in the wrong direction
- Project on Government Oversight, Infographic: Meet the Foreign Influence Database
- Leon Wieseltier (NYT), Among the Disrupted
- Fred Bever, [MA Gov. Charlie Baker] Emphasizes Experience, Bipartisanship With Cabinet Picks
- David Martin, A Health Care Imperative For Gov. Baker
Foreign Affairs
- Andrew Kramer (NYT), French Leader Urges End to Sanctions Over Ukraine
- Defense News, Russia’s Financial Woes Could Impact Defense Spending
Health
- Aaron Carroll, Healthcare Triage: Antibiotics are overused
- BBC News, Antibiotics: US discovery labelled ‘game-changer’ for medicine
- Amanda Kowalski, The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act
- Brad DeLong, The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act: Comment
- A.W. Gaffney, Lessons from Vermont: What Does Vermont’s Failed Single-Payer Plan Tell Us About Future Reform Efforts?
Economics
- Josh Katz (NYT), How Nonemployed Americans Spend Their Weekdays: Men vs. Women
- Dean Baker, Obama Tries to Fix a Housing Market That Is Not Broken
- Dean Baker, David Leonhardt Is Badly Confused: The People Running the Economy Had Far More than 13 Years of Education
Environment
- Tom Pelton, Life on the Wing
Science
- Jonathan Amos, SpaceX launches cargo ship but rocket recovery test ends in crash
- Andrew Back, A Raspberry Pi (VAX) Cluster
- Janicki Omniprocessor
- Forbes, Forbes’ 30 Under 30 2015: Science
- LaserFocusWorld, Quantum computing gets boost from MIT on-chip single-photon detector arrays
Culture
- Maghan McDowell, Morning dance parties unite Mill Valley moms, Mission techies
- Shannon McMahon, MFA Opens the Paul Revere, Sam Adams Time Capsule
- Eric Chandler, Instant Karma