Must Read
- James Kwak, The Difficult Math of American Health Care
- Strong Towns, Suburban Poverty
- Sean McFate, America’s Addiction to Mercenaries
- Matt Taibbi, The Summer of the Shill
Should Read
- Danielle Brian, Preventing the Next Watergate
- Justin Fox, Where Median Incomes Have Fallen the Most
- Margot Sanger-Katz (NYT), Think Your Obamacare Plan Will Be Like Employer Coverage? Think Again
- Robert Reich, Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer
- Bill McKibben, A World at War [Ed.: From a technical standpoint it’s winnable but I think we’ll lose for essentially the reasons McKibben cites. We should fight but we need to be prepared to adapt if we lose. Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.]
- Chris Dillow, Uber vs Co-ops
- Charlie Pierce, The Simplistic Reductionism That Sees Only Good or Evil
Worth Reading
- Lawrence Mishel, A tale of two speeches
- Mike Kalin, Teaching Trump: Rethinking Civic Education In Turbulent Times
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Rehabilitating Republicans And Down Ballot Democrats
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Democrats Are Losing The Thread
- Jake Johnson, The Third Way’s Last Triumph
- Brady Dennis, Challenge to presidential candidates: Debate about science
- Eric Holthaus, James Hansen’s Bombshell Climate Warning Is Now Part of the Scientific Canon
- Alejandro Dávila Fragoso, Your Guacamole Is Hurting Mexican Forests
- Adrienne Green, Leaving Academia to Become a First-Generation Farmer [Ed.: I would be quite content to be a “hobby farmer”.]
- Harper Slusher, My Four Biggest Gardening Mistakes [Ed.: We’ve made all four. Yes, there is a learning curve.]
- Mike Murphy, Utilities Can’t Pass Cost Of Pipeline Construction On To Ratepayers, Mass. High Court Rules
- Chris Dillow, On Arms Races
Ending on a Positive Note
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy, 2016 Liff Spirit Award
- Julie McKay Turner, Bedford will be Well-Represented at the Middlesex County 4-H Fair ~ August 26, 27, and 28
- Black Francis, Bluefinger