Must Read

• Matt Taibbi, The Case for Bernie Sanders
• Sally Jacobs, As Vermont official, Sanders ‘Got things done’
• Mark Thoma, commentary on WSJ article ‘Economic Policy Splits Democrats’
• Dave Johnson, What To Look For When the Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Is Released

Should Read

• Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, [Trans-Pacific Partnership] Full Text
• Claire Cain Miller (NYT), Stressed, Tired, Rushed: A Portrait of the Modern Family
• Charlie Pierce, 420,000 Kentuckians May Have Just Had Their Healthcare Voted Away
• Cardinal Peter Turkson, Lecture on ‘Laudato Si’
• Charlotte Du Cann, Portrait of an Edition [Ed.:  Summary of The Dark Mountain Project’s issue no. 8.]

Politics

• David Dayen, Clinton Takes Her Adviser’s Side, Attacking Big Banks but Not BlackRock
• Ezra Klein, Don’t believe the Democratic Party is in crisis? Then read this tweet.
• Mike the Mad Biologist, I’m Not Worried About the 2016 Election, But Ones That Are Not Evenly Divisible By Four
• Lee Drutman, America may be in a reinforcing feedback loop of growing inequality and Republican rule
• NY Times Editorial Board, G.O.P.: Save Your Candidates From Themselves
• Rick Perlstein, The GOP Circus: Truth-Defying Feats
• Mike the Mad Biologist, STAB…STAB…STAB…  [Ed.:  A far cry from Royall Switzler, MA GOP gubernatorial candidate in 1986.] 
• Arthur Delaney, Bernie Sanders Wants To Bring Back Your 40-Hour Workweek

Defense

• NY Times Editorial Board, The Pakistan Nuclear Nightmare
• David Barno and Nora Benshal, Can the U.S. Military Halt Its Brain Drain?
• Tyler Rogoway, Canada’s New Minister Of Defense Is This Badass Sikh-Canadian Warrior  [Ed.:  The man designed and patented a gas mask to accommodate his beard.]

Environment

• Patricia Daukantas, Air-Quality Monitoring in the Mid-Infrared
• Chris Buckley (NYT), China Burns Much More Coal Than Reported, Complicating Climate Talks
• Justin Gillis and Clifford Krauss (NYT), Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General

Public Health

• Benjamin Swasey, [MA Gov. Charlie] Baker Announces Campaign To Remove Stigma Of Addiction
• Paul Starr, A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife — and What It Says About American Society
• Andrew Gelman, Age adjustment mortality update

Science and Engineering

• Allison Pohle, At ‘Deflategate’ class, scientists let the air out of the NFL: Science explains all—and offers vindication for New England fans.  [Ed.:  I and many, many others have pointed out the same thing these profs do.  It’s first semester p-chem.]
• Ian Bogost, Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers (It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest.)
• National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2014: Chapter 7. Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding
• Thomas Hayden, Canada’s New Government May Be a New Beginning for Science
• Alberto Conti and Mark Clampin, How Space Telescopes Will Find Earth 2.0
• Kenneth Change (NYT), Mars’ Atmosphere Stripped by Solar Winds, NASA Says [Ed.:  Our global magnetic field is a very good thing.]

Agriculture

• Sarah Yager, The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious

Ending on a Positive Note

• Richard Grant (NYT), Sweet Home Mississippi
• James Fallows, Cavalcade of Beers