Must Read
- Andy Lacis on what we actually know about global warming and why we know it [Ed.: I’m presuming he’s this Andy Lacis.]
- Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, No Cost for Extremism
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Zombies of 2016
- Elise Gold and Alyssa Davis, Sluggish Wage Growth Over the Last Year Is Not Due to the Mix of Jobs Being Created
- Charlie Post, We’re All Precarious Now
Should Read
- Charlie Pierce, Trade Show, Part Deux: Imaginary Benefits vs. Real Costs [Ed.: The TPP. See also here]
- Larry Mishel, Heidi Shierholz, and John Schmitt, Wage Inequality: A Story of Policy Choices
- Pew Research Center, The Politics of Financial Insecurity
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Wingnut Welfare and Work Incentives
- Ezra Klein, The anti-Obamacare movement is making red states sicker and poorer
- Brian Beutler, Obamacare Is More Popular Than It Seems – If You Discount These People’s Opinions
- Beth Daley, Despite spread of Lyme disease, Mass. dedicates no money to prevention
Health Care
- Matthew Yglesias, 7 charts that show what Obamacare critics are getting wrong
- Adam Hale Shapiro, Did Massachusetts Health-Care Reform Affect Prices?
- Aaron Carroll, Why Survival Rate Is Not the Best Way to Judge Cancer Spending
- Austin Frakt, Cost effectiveness depends on coverage
- Richard Mayhew, A real problem with the ACA
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Four Hours at the ER Is Expensive (And Why a Bag of Saline Costs $676)
Economics
- Dean Baker, Actually the Personal Saving Rate is Very Low
- Elise Gold and Alyssa Davis, Sluggish Wage Growth Over the Last Year Is Not Due to the Mix of Jobs Being Created
- William Dowling, The Lifelong Effects of Early Childhood Poverty
- Arindrajit Dube, Public Assistance, Private Subsidies and Low Wage Jobs
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
- Dean Baker, Washington Post Tells Readers the Elite Will Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Pass Their Trade Deals
- Robert Scott, Fast Track to Lost Jobs and Lower Wages
- Charlie Pierce, Trade Show, Part Deux: Imaginary Benefits vs. Real Costs
Environment: Science and Politics
- Laurent Fabius (NYT), Our Climate Imperatives
- Brad Plumer, Why California’s drought hasn’t sent food prices soaring
- Ted Genoways, Fear in a Handful of Dust (What Climate Change Is Doing to the Texas Cattle Ranch)
- Michael Wines (NYT), Research Suggests Pesticide Is Alluring and Harmful to Bees
- Claire Moser, On Earth Day, Congress Targets America’s Public Lands and Waters
Math and Science
- Eli Rabett, Eli and the Merry Elves
- Dennis Overbye (NYT), 25 Years Later, Hubble [Telescope] Sees Beyond Troubled Start
- YouTube, Calbuco Volcano eruption
Politics
- Mark Thoma, Here’s an Economic Agenda for Hillary Clinton
- Matt Taibbi, Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton’s Fake Populism Is a Hit
- Joe Conason, Fashionable Bashing: ‘New York’ Columnist Knows Little But Talks Big
- Steve Rose, How to find $600 million for the Kansas budget
- driftglass, The Great Project Continues, Continued
- Ezra Klein, 2 political scientists have found the secret to partisanship, and it’s deeply depressing
- Brad DeLong, A Suggestion for the Burned-Out Political Reporter George Packer
Miscellany
- Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, Exiled Russian lawmaker explains why Putin isn’t afraid of Obama
- Whit Richardson, Payday at the mill
- Umair Haque, The Asshole Factory
- Austin Ramzy (NYT), Warren Weinstein: A Gracious Host, Immersed in Pakistani Life