Must Read

• Rick Perlstein, The New Holy Grail of GOP Primaries
• William Saletan, Not Fit to Lead:  The Iran hearings have shown how the Republican Party can no longer be trusted with the presidency.
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Corbyn and the Cringe Caucus

Should Read

• Katha Pollitt (NYT), How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood
• Rep. Seth Moulton, Statement on Iran Nuclear Deal
• Rebecca Klein, Kansas Underfunded Education And Cut Tenure. Now It Can’t Find Enough Teachers To Fill Classrooms.

Politics

• Sam Suellentrop (NYT), The Kansas Experiment
• driftglass, Today In Both Sides Do It: O Tempora! O Mores!
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Style, Substance, and The Donald
• Paul Krugman (NYT), From Trump on Down, the Republicans Can’t Be Serious
• Sam Frizell, The Left’s Quest to Create Hundreds of Elizabeth Warrens
• Alex Carp, Protest U

China

• Sean Starrs, A Crash With Chinese Characteristics
• Michael Forsythe and Mark Mazzetti (NYT), China Seeks Businessman Said to Have Fled to U.S., Further Straining Ties [Ed.:  It’s all good until we get one of yours, isn’t it?]

TPP

• Samantha Page, What Does The New Environmental Chapter Mean For The TPP? Not Much, Activists Say

Environment

• Coral Davenport (NYT), Obama Policy Could Force Robust Climate Discussion From 2016 Candidates [Ed.:  Probably not but it could.]
• Quynhanh Do (NYT), The Cost of Natural Disasters
• Sarah Maslin Nir (NYT), California Fire, Aided by Drought, Defies Tactics to Defeat It
• Mark Bittman (NYT), What’s the Buzz About Wild Bees? [Ed.:  One of my goals in life is to make our yard look like a smaller version of that farm.]

Math and Science

• Chris Bishop, Introduction to Bayesian Reasoning
• Michael Tobis, They Concede Nothing; They Can’t
• Tamino, Getting model-data comparison right
• Wolfgang Lutz, Bill Butz, Samir KC, Warren Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov, 9 billion or 11 billion? The research behind new population projections
• Daniel Lakeland, What is a Gaussian?

Education

• Diane Ravitch, Chicago: Why Didn’t Arne Duncan Use the Lab School as a Model for Reform?

Good Government

• David Dayen, Two Big Reasons Hillary Clinton Isn’t Taking Elizabeth Warren’s Revolving-Door Dare
• Justin Miller, The Revolving Door Is Spinning Out of Control. Can It Be Slowed?

Arts and Culture

• Tyler Kepner (NYT), For Once, the Mets Aren’t Swooning, and Their Fans Are [Ed.: Go Mets!]
• Olga Khvan, Strandbeests, Wind-Powered Mechanical Beasts, Will Walk Around Boston