Must Read
- Charles Seife, How the FDA Manipulates the Media
- David Dayen, Behind Closed Doors, Hillary Clinton Sympathized With Goldman Sachs Over Financial Reform [Ed.: Unfortunately, even with this unsurprising revelation, compared with the alternatives she’s still a prize.]
Should Read
- Steve Randy Waldman, Election angst
- Elizabeth Goitein (NYT), The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
- Francis Diebold, Machine Learning vs. Econometrics, III [Ed.: Diebold articulates the contrast in methods beautifully.]
- Michael Behar (NYT), Why Isn’t the US Better at Predicting Extreme Weather?
- Casey Schwartz (NYT), Generation Adderall
Foreign Policy
- Daniel Larison, The War on Yemen and the Failure of Western Media
- Mark Mazzetti, Jeffrey Gettleman, and Eric Schmitt (NYT), In Somalia, US Escalates Shadow War
Russia and US-Russian Relations
- Oliver Bullough (NYT), Putin in Syria: Chechnya All Over Again
- Ted Galen Carpenter, Why Russia Fears NATO
- Michael Ballaban, This Is A Real Tweet From The Russian Embassy In The United States
- Gilbert Doctorow, The Warnings of a New World War
- Leonid Bershidsky, I’m an Anti-Putin Russian and Clinton Makes Me Nervous
- Somini Sengupta (NYT), A Senior Russian Envoy’s Take on Relations With the United States: ‘Pretty Bad’
The Survivalist, Bug Out Bag: The Only Contents List You NeedNew Zealand Now, Move to New Zealand & start an exciting new life- Jonathan Marcus, Russia and the West: Where did It all go wrong?
- Peter Ford, At odds but bound together
- Ellen Powell, Gorbachev calls for peace: Is there a path forward?
Domestic Politics
- Andrina Tran, The Libertarian Party’s Dangerous Fusion
- Charlie Pierce, America Has Been Waiting for Donald Trump: He is not an aberration. He is a culmination
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Trump Is A Logical Outcome of Republican Politics
- Rod Dreher, The End of Movement Conservatism’s World
- Corey Robin, Sex, Dice, and the Trump Tapes
- Zaid Jilani and Naomi LaChance, Hacked Emails Show Hillary Clinton Repeatedly Praised Wal-Mart in Paid Speeches
- Emma Green, Women Who Hate Trump, but Aren’t With Her
- Carl Beijer, Harold Myerson thinks we have a white racist millennial Clinton-defector problem. He’s wrong.
- Chris Arnade, Divided by Meaning
Political Economy
- Robert Shiller (NYT), What’s Behind a Rise in Ethnic Nationalism? Maybe the Economy
- John Gray, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
- Chris Dillow, Capitalism and Loneliness
Education
Science and Environment
- Tatiana Schlossberg (NYT), Climate Change Blamed for Half of Increased Forest Fire Danger
- Adam Nagourney (NYT), As California Water Use Rises, Some Ask: Were Limits Eased Too Soon?
- Bill McKibben, Recalculating the Climate Math
- First Parish Sunday Service, 5-31-2015, “Crisis and Opportunity” [Ed.: Featuring Bill McKibben]
- Bill McKibben,The Climate Movement Has to Elect Hillary Clinton—and Then Give Her Hell
- Glen Barry, Bill McKibben’s Ecology-Free Declaration of War on Climate is Dangerous and Wrong
- Dougald Hine, Defusing the Apocalypse: A Response to John Gray
- Carl Zimmer (NYT), How the First Farmers Changed History
- Jonah Engle Bromwich (NYT), Where should you live to escape climate change? Welcome to Boise!
- Kenneth Chang (NYT), Venus: Inhospitable, and Perhaps Instructional
- Maddie Stone, Pluto’s Skies Look More Earth-like Than We Imagined
- Steve Eddins, Rainbow Color Map Critiques: An Overview and Annotated Bibliography
Ending on a Positive Note
- Tyler Kepner (NYT), Cubs Banish Decades for Anguish from Wrigley
- Olympic Hide and Seek
- Craig S. Smith (NYT), A Remote Job Comes With Free Land and a Sense of Community. 50,000 Apply.
- Larry Buchanan, Zach Hetrick, and Adam MacLeod-Roth (NYT), Escape the News to The Boundary Waters