Must Read
- Adam Vaccaro, It Wasn’t Just About ‘Artie T.’ [Ed.: On the walkout by Market Basket workers this summer.]
- Robert Kuttner, T-TIPping Point: Rise of Corporate Right Greater Menace than Rise of Far Right
- Robert Jay Lifton, The Climate Swerve
Should Read
- Eli Kintisch, Earth’s missing heat may be hiding in the deep Atlantic
- Jim Walsh, Brutality Is Not Capability: A Guide To Understanding ISIS
- Rebecca Solnit, The Octopus and Its Grandchildren [Ed.: If you don’t have a subscription to Harper’s then it’s worth your while to get one.]
- Dean Baker, How to Think About the Corporate Income Tax
- Thomas Kochan, After The Market Basket Deal, Congratulations And Thanks
- NY Times Editorial Board, Yes to Housing in Our Backyards
- Noah Smith, How to win arguments by pretending to be a simpleton
Economics
- Paul Krugman, Real Americans and Real Economics
- Jared Bernstein, Cutting the Corporate Tax Would Make Other Problems Grow
- Matt O’Brien, The Republican civil war over taxes is coming
- Jared Bernstein, Dethrone ‘King Dollar’
- Wayne Parry, Atlantic City losing 2 casinos, 5K jobs in 3 days
Politics
- Katharine Seelye, Massachusetts May Shut Down Casinos Before Even One Opens
- Kevin Drum, Chart of the Day: Welfare Reform and the Great Recession
- Charlie Pierce, This Is Mighty White Of You
Environment
- Tim Egan, New West Renaissance
Weather
- NOAA, NOAA’s updated Atlantic hurricane season outlook calls for an increased chance of a below-normal season
- Angela Fritz, Atlantic hurricane season showing signs of heating up, right on time [Ed.: The title of this post is a bit misleading. The substance of it is consistent with NOAA’s post above.]
Science and Math
- Andrew Gelman, No, all Americans are not created equal when it comes to belief in conspiracy theories
- Adam Elga, Subjective Probabilities Should be Sharp
- Bill Gardner, Tools for statistical writing and reproducible research
Who Knew?
- Joseph Stromberg, Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
- Alyson Shontell, UPS Trucks Don’t Turn Left