Must Read

• driftglass, Lies, Damn Lies, and David Brooks
• Danielle Brian, Watchdogs Needed: Top Government Investigator Positions Left Unfilled for Years
• Rebecca Steinitz, What Went Wrong In McKinney [Ed.:  “De-escalate”.   Hold that thought.]

Should Read

• Mark Bittman (NYT), Let’s Help Create More Farmers
• Brian Schmidt, Tipping points for local land use policies
• Eli Rabett, [Global Circulation Models]: Explicative value is strong, predictive only in the long run
• Barton Paul Levenson, Are the Models Untestable?

Environment

• NY Times Editorial Board, G.O.P. Assault on Environmental Laws
• Matt Lee-Ashley, New Proposal Would Give Western Governors Unchecked Power Over America’s National Forests
• Eli Rabett, On the Margins
• Ezra David Romero, Californians Look To Sierra Nevada Native Americans For Drought Solutions

Hillary Clinton

• Brian Beutler, Hillary Clinton’s Grand Strategy to Beat the GOP: Take Bold Positions Early and Often
• Alan Rappeport (NYT), Bernie Sanders Demands Hillary Clinton Take Trade Stance ‘Right Now’
• Matthew Yglesias, It’s time for the media to admit that Hillary Clinton is popular
• Matt Taibbi, In Classic Clintonian Fashion, Dems Insult Their Own Voters
• Jonathan Allen, The selective liberalism of Hillary Clinton
• Amy Chozick (NYT), Hillary Clinton Will Evoke Roosevelt and Try to Ease Fears on Trust in New York Speech
• Sam Frizell, Transcript: Read the Full Text of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Launch Speech

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

• Alexis Goldstein, Elizabeth Warren Calls a Banking Lobbyist’s Bluff
• Boston.com, Elizabeth Warren nails down why banking CEOs dislike her
• Staff of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Broken Promises: Decades of Failure to Enforce Labor Standards in Free Trade Agreements

Trade Policy:  The TPP and More

• Robert Scott, The Politics of Fast Track: Exports, Imports and Jobs
• Robert Kuttner, Derailment on the Fast Track [Ed.:  Some context for the 6/12 House votes on TAA and TPA written shortly before they occurred.]
• Daniel Costa and Ron Hira, TiSA: A Secret Trade Agreement That Will Usurp America’s Authority to Make Immigration Policy
• Daniel Dayen,  Fast Track to the Corporate Wish List: How the U.S. Trade Representative became Washington’s one-stop shop for the corporate trade agenda.

Economics

• Nick Bunker, Waiting for healthy U.S. wage growth
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Fighting the Derp

Politics

• Michael Levitin, The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street
• Dave Johnson, House Republicans Blocked Critical ‘Make It In America’ Bill
• Brad DeLong, Republican Ex-Members of Congress Still Only Willing to Complain About “Congress”

Defense

• Adam Chandler, The Hacking of Federal Data Is Much Worse Than It First Seemed
• A.J. Vicens, The F-35 Is Still FUBAR
• Eric Schmitt and Steven Lee Myers, U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe  [Ed.:  Remember when I wrote “Hold that thought.”?  I have no constructive suggestions for how to de-escalate with Russia or, given Putin is who he is, whether there’s a plausible path for doing so.  I hope there is.] 
• Tyler Rogoway, B-2 Stealth Bombers Appear In Europe As Tensions Rise With Russia

Turkey

• David Graham, Turkish President Erdogan’s Triple Defeat
• Zeynep Tufekci (NYT), How Hope Returned to Turkey

Health Care

• Aaron Carroll, Healthcare Triage News: Should We Pay People to Improve Their Health?
• Sarah Kliff, Republican senator criticizes Obamacare on the grounds that Obamacare subsidies are awesome
• Caroline Pearson, Lowest-Cost Exchange Premiums Remain Competitive in 2016; Consumers may be able to keep increases small by selecting a low-cost silver option
• Carey Goldberg, In Test Tube, ‘Pulse-Doses’ Of Antibiotic Wipe Out Lyme Disease Bacteria Persisters

Culture

• Matt O’Brien, Bitcoin isn’t the future of money — it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme
• Ron Rosenbaum, What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
• Michael Kelley, STUDY: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All
• NPR, The #BlackLivesMatter Movement: Marches And Tweets For Healing
• Ari Shapiro, How Glasgow Shed Its Reputation As ‘The Murder Capital Of Western Europe’

Education

• Mike the Mad Biologist, What Education Can Learn from the Military
• Jeffrey Sachs, The Harvard IKB School of Engineering
• George Monbiot, How a corporate cult captures and destroys our best graduates
• Alice Ollstein, Where The Money [Wisconsin Gov.] Scott Walker Is Cutting From Universities Is Going

Math and Science

• Andrew Gelman, The posterior distribution of the likelihood ratio as a summary of evidence
• Chad Orzel, Particle And Astro Aren’t The Only Kinds Of Physics

Ending on a Positive Note

• Boston Streetcars, Trolley Types of Boston
• Deborah Fallows, Summer in the Pacific Northwest: The Bend, Oregon, Elks open their baseball season.