Must Read/Watch

• Jim Walsh, Cautious Optimism: An Insider Sizes Up The Iran Nuclear Deal
• Henry Farrell, A Brief Theory of ‘Very Serious People’
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Social Justice Tuba
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Fire Phasers
• James Suroweicki, How Can Greece Take Charge?

Should Read/Listen

• Jared Bernstein, We are definitely not Greece! But if we do this we could get a little bit closer…
• Mike Konczal, Dodd-Frank turns 5 today — it’s Obama’s most underappreciated achievement
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The Accidental Genius of School Lotteries: D.C. Edition
• Nicholas Rondinone and Kathleen Megan, [Central Connecticut State University] Professor To 18-Year-Old: Making Gun-Firing Drone A ‘Terrible Idea’
• C.J. Chivers (NYT), ISIS Has Fired Chemical Mortar Shells, Evidence Indicates
• Amie Ferris-Rotman, How to Disappear a Country: In the Donetsk People’s Republic, Russia is everywhere, from the mailboxes to the license plates. Ukraine is nowhere.

Iran Nuclear Deal

• Peter Kenyon, When Sanctions Lift, How Will Iran Spend Its Billions?
• Max Fisher, Iran hawks finally presented a “better” Iran deal. It’s complete gibberish.

Wither the GOP

• Andrew O’Hehir, The Republican prison experiment: How the right-wing conquest of the GOP altered political reality
• Eclectablog, New poll shows GOP approval lowest in decades — but conservatives would like it to be lower

Disfunction Amongst the Democrats

• Oliver Willis, #BlackLivesMatter And Impotent Rage, Netroots Nation Edition
• John Cole, Circular Firing Squad Engaged
• Eric Alterman, This Is the Real Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party: It’s not Bernie vs. Hillary, as the media would have it. It’s de Blasio vs. Cuomo.
• Thomas Frank, It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street

Other Politics

• Zaid Jilani, Bernie Sanders Takes His Populism to the Red States and Draws Huge Crowd
• Russell Berman, The U.S. Governor Who Forgot How to Veto a Bill: The strange saga of Paul LePage, who’s going to court to see if 65 bills he rejected have accidentally become law.
• David Graham, Martin O’Malley’s Link Between Climate Change and ISIS Isn’t Crazy
• Samantha Page, [Ohio Governor and GOP Presidential Candidate] John Kasich Halted A Program That Saved Consumers $230 Million

Economics

• James Kwak, More Misinformation about Banking Regulation
• James Suroweicki, Raise the Gas Tax Already
• Simon Rios, Adding Jobs In Fall River, A Small Company Turns Old T-Shirts Into Quilts

Math and Science

• Adrienne Lafrance, Global Warming Could Make Carbon Dating Impossible
• Eric Holthaus, Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning  [Ed.:  Only a “bombshell” if you haven’t been paying attention but noteworthy whether you have or haven’t.]
• NASA, DSCOVR Mission’s NISTAR: NIST Advanced Radiometer
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Our Agricultural Innovation Lags Behind China
• IEEE, The 2015 Top Ten Programming Languages
• Gareth Cook (NYT), The Singular Mind of Terry Tao

Ending on a Positive Note

• Eric Wilbur, Clocking the progress in Manchester, N.H.