Must Read
- Jedediah Purdy, To Have and Have Not
- Adam Bonica and Jenny Shen, The rich are dominating campaigns. Here’s why that’s about to get worse.
- David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy, The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest
- Dean Baker, The American Middle Class Is Doing Much Worse Than the NYT Says
Should Read
- Trip Gabriel, 50 Years Into the War on Poverty, Hardship Hits Back
- Abby Goodnough, Looking at Costs and Risks, Many Skip Health Insurance
- Tim Harford, Big Data: Are we making a big mistake?
- NY Daily News, Hurricane Carter’s Dying Wish (CG: Rubin Carter passed away on April 20.)
- Dan Brosgol, Signs of the Times: Tearing Down Bedford
Political Economy (Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”)
- Jonathan Chait, Piketty, Oligarchy, and Conservative Evasion
- Steven Erlanger, Taking on Adam Smith (and Karl Marx)
Politics
- IEEE Spectrum, The Newest Organized Labor Group: Start-up Employees
- Emily Atkin, The Weird and Wondrous Politics of Climate Change in Massachusetts
Environment and Energy
- Stephanie Strom, Vermont Will Require Labeling of Genetically Altered Foods
- Carl Zimmer, Springing Forward, and Its Consequences (CG: As long-term pessimistic as I am about the effects of climate change, there’s actually some potential good news here.)
- Duck of Minerva, Can Research Inform Climate Policy?
- Katie Valentine, A Polluted Superfund Site Is Now Home to 36,000 Solar Panels
- NY Times Editorial Board, The Koch Attack on Solar Energy
Baseball
- Steve Silva, Yankees Starter Michael Pineda Thrown Out of Game at Fenway for Using Pine Tar
- (CG: Interesting to me that there are significant numbers of Yankees and Red Sox fans all over the country, not just in the northeast.)