Must Read
- William Lind, What Militarism Means [Related: Tyler Rogoway, Marines Declare F-35B Operational, But Is It Really Ready For Combat? ]
- Matt Taibbi, In the Age of Trump, Will Democrats Sell Out More, Or Less? [Related: Jon Green, Bernie Sanders is electable, just not for the usual reasons]
- Roger Cohen (NYT), Lovely, Lamentable London
- Eli Rabett, What Fish Need is Bicycles – BPL [“A paranoid is a man with all the facts at his disposal [and command of first semester physical chemistry].” – William S. Burroughs]
Should Read
- David Roberts, Want more wind and solar? We’ll need to get rid of outdated grid rules.
- Alec McGillis, Pumped Dry: How our roads came to depend on a broken tax scheme Washington can’t fix. An investigation.
- Venkatesh Rao, The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
- Jonathan Weisman (NYT), Talks for Pacific Trade Deal Stumble
Environment
- Coral Davenport and Gardiner Harris, Obama to Unveil Tougher Climate Plan With His Legacy in Mind
- Eduardo Porter (NYT), Innovation Sputters in Battle Against Climate Change [Ed.: Sometimes innovation isn’t the solution; sometimes a change in behavior is.]
- Joe Romm, James Hansen Spells Out Climate Danger Of The ‘Hyper-Anthropocene’ Age
- Jason Samenow, Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record
Republican Disfunction
- Paul Krugman (NYT), The Donald and the Delusional
- driftglass, Go, Lemmings, Go!, Ctd.
- Jackie Chalmes, “They Don’t Give a Damn about Governing” Conservative Media’s Influence on the Republican Party [Ed.: Not that this is news but, what the hell, no harm getting it down on paper for posterity.]
- Dana Milbank, Why Scott Walker is so dangerous
Economics: Social Safety Net
- Paul Krugman (NYT), The Disappearing Entitlements Crisis
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Zombies Against Medicare
- Jared Bernstein, Raising the Medicare retirement age would not save money; it would cost money.
- Mike Konczal, The Conservative Myth of a Social Safety Net Built on Charity
Financial Reform
- David Dayen, The Latest Indication of Obama’s Lack of Commitment to Financial Reform
- Mike Konczal, Introducing [the Latest Report from the Roosevelt Institute]: Defining Financialization
Politics
- Barney Frank, Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie
- Matt Steinglass, Republican Extremism: Reversing Polarization
- Trip Gabriel and Coral Davenport (NYT), Hillary Clinton Lays Out Climate Change Plan
- Amy Chozick (NYT), Hillary Clinton Is Stumped on Question of Keystone Pipeline
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Clinton Needs To Be Questioned Very Hard on Social Security
“Change is Both Possible and Necessary”
- C.J. Chivers (NYT), Lt. Col. Kate Germano on the Marines and Women
Ending on a Positive Note
- James Hill (NYT), Almaty, Kazakhstan, Battles Perceptions and Beijing in 2022 Olympic Bid [Ed.: The didn’t get the games but Almaty looks like a nice area. The photos remind me a bit of the mountains outside of Salt Lake City.]
- Samantha Page, This Kind Of Electricity Provider Is Already Integrating Renewables
- George Jones Farm: