Must Read

• Corey Robin, The Primary Isn’t Over
• Doug Henwood, The Post-Hope Democrats
• Jedediah Purdy, Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy
• Climate XChange, Carbon Fee and Rebate – Answering the Threat of Climate Change and Strengthening the Economy

(Last month I commented that I run hot and cold on Jacobin.   With respect to the presidential primaries and the Democratic party, they’ve been in fine form recently.)

Should Read

• Monique Morrissey, The State of American Retirement:  How 401(k)s have failed most American workers
• Gerald Friedman, The Critics of Sanders’s Health Plan Understate Benefits and Overstate Costs
• Jo Becker and Scott Shane (NYT), The Libya Gamble, Part 1: Hillary Clinton, ‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator’s Fall
• Scott Shane and Jo Becker (NYT), The Libya Gamble, Part 2: A New Libya, ‘With Very Little Time Left’
• Doug Henwood, The New Republicans
• Charles Dermer, Why Southwest Virginia Is Trump Country
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Clash of Republican Con Artists
• Tim Egan (NYT), The Beast Is Us

Work

• Daniel Costa, Durbin and Sessions agree H-1B guestworker program must be fixed to protect migrant and American tech workers

Economics

• Kelsey Snell, Top House Democrat on trade opposes Trans Pacific Partnership
• Murshed Zaheed, Nobel Prize winner fact checks the president on TPP
• S. M. Miller, America’s Go-To Economic Indicator Is Blunt and Obsolete

Politics

• Joe Biden (NYT), The Senate’s Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee
• Michael Hirsh, Why Trump and Sanders Were Inevitable
• driftglass, A Time Of Losing: Mad Max Versus Downton Abbey
• Alan Jacobs, The Trump Litany
• Charlie Pierce, Marco Rubio’s Dick Jokes Have Nothing on Thomas Jefferson’s
• Samantha Page, This One Chart Shows How Crazy Trump’s Climate Positions Are
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Meanwhile, It’s Business As Usual For The New Democrats
• Robert Brenner, The Dynamics of Retreat

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Needs to Go

• Jeff Stein, The head of the Democratic Party is trying to weaken Sen. Warren’s consumer protection agency
• Charlie Pierce, It’s Time for DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Ride Off into the Sunset

War, It’s Consequences and the Mitigating the Risk Thereof

• AP, Russia Wants to Fly Over US With Advanced Digital Camera
• Dionne Searcey (NYT), Boko Haram Falls Victim to a Food Crisis It Created

Culture and Society

• James Mumford, What’s Pro-Life About an AR-15?
• Cathy O’Neil, We’re having the wrong conversation about Apple and the FBI
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The Unlovely Necessity of Public Health Spending
• Johnny Sanphillippo, Suburbia: The Discount-Rate Utopia
• Daniel Herriges, Suburban Poverty: Hiding in Plain Sight

Ending on a Positive Note

• Doug Glanville, Remembering Wally Yonamine
• NASA, The Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole
• Kenneth Chang (NYT), Scott Kelly’s Year in Space
• Tatianna Schlossberg (NYT), At Yosemite, a Waterfall Turns Into a Firefall