Must Read/Watch
- Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
- Daniel Little, Science and Decision
- Brad DeLong, What About Today’s Republican Party?
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Take Down the Confederate Flag—Now
- Jon Stewart, Charleston Church Shooting
Should Read
- Garry Wills, Who’s Afraid of Pope Francis?
- Owen West (NYT), Why Obama’s Plan to Send Advisers to Iraq Will Fail [Ed.: West addresses military tactics. He does not address the “And then what?” question which follows should Iraqi+US forces prevail in driving out ISIS.]
- NYT Editorial Board, Massachusetts Takes On a Failing School District [Ed.: Lawrence has been a mess for as long as I can remember. If this is the beginning of a turnaround that’s great – bottle it and export it as appropriate.]
- Nick Hanauer and David Rolf, Shared Security, Shared Growth
- Daniel Costa, [Sen. Orrin] Hatch should fix H1-B visa program instead of expand it
- Mike White, Standing Up for Basic Research
Math and Science
- Emily Atkin, What Did Actual Scientists Think Of The Pope’s Climate Encyclical?
- The Vatican Observatory [Ed.: My Ph.D. advisor once gave a talk at their headquarters outside Rome. They’re serious. It’s not a ‘hobby’ endeavor.]
- NASA, Ultra High Definition Video from the International Space Station
- Julia Greenberg, The Web Will Either Kill Science Journals or Save Them
- David Smith, Why has R, despite quirks, been so successful?
- Sarah Clatterbuck Sofer (NYT), What It’s Like as a ‘Girl’ in the Lab
Environment
- Justin Gillis (NYT), Naomi Oreskes, a Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate
- Jeffrey Sachs, The G-7 Embraces Decarbonization
Health and Health Care
- Martha Bebinger, I Bought Narcan, And Here’s What I Learned
- Aaron Carroll (NYT), To Lose Weight, Eating Less Is Far More Important Than Exercising More
- David Graham, The True Face of Medicare Fraud
- Robert Pear (NYT), G.O.P. Is Wary About Winning on Health Law
Politics
- Hillary Clinton, Building an economy for tomorrow
- Dan La Botz, Obama Is No Coward
- Rachel Cohen, What Would a Sanders Administration Do on K-12 Education?
- Interview with Barney Frank
Economics
- Paul Krugman (NYT), TPP Versus NAFTA
- Dani Rodrik, The Muddled Case for Trade Agreements
- Clyde Prestowitz, Why Losing TPP Won’t Hurt the U.S. in Asia
- Richard Kogan, CBO Contradicts Itself — Long-Term Budget Picture Improving, Not Worsening
- Daniel Costa, The True Cost of Low Prices is Exploited Workers
Culture
- Cathy O’Neil, The definition of “opting in” has become strained
- Jeet Heer, The Last Time Conservatives Dismissed a Major Encyclical, It Ended Terribly for Them
- Ali Michael, Rachel Dolezal Syndrome
- Shalini Shankar, Real Diversity Is About Confronting Power
Education
Travel
- Chris Blattman, Field work in the tropics
Ending on a Positive Note