Must Read

• J.W. Mason, Can Sanders Do It?
• Johnny Sanphillippo, Problems We Don’t Really Want to Solve
• Kelley Vlahos, Addicted to Los Alamos
• Andrew Revkin (NYT), Oxford’s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny

Should Read

• Bob Oakes, U.S. Rep. Moulton Explains Why He’s Running For Congress Again
• Paul Waldman, The Electability Conundrum
• dsully, 12 Examples of Hillary Violating Progressives’ Trust
• Mike the Mad Biologist, When Very Serious Economists Act Very Unseriously
• Dani Rodrik, The Trade Numbers Game
• Chris Bertram, Cash and Freedom
• Eric Posner, The Tragedy of Antonin Scalia
• Robert Reich, Why We Must Try

Foreign Policy

• Andrew Bacevich, Outsiders-in-chief and the world: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders need to sharpen their global vision
• Sean Kay, The Foreign Policy Case for Bernie Sanders

Defense

• William S. Lind, Failure as a Way of Life
• Andrew Bacevich, Who Runs the Pentagon?
• Tyler Rogoway, This Video Shows Cluster Bombs Detonating In The Dense Syrian City Of Aleppo

Scalia and the Supreme Court

• Robert Kuttner, McConnell’s Misstep — and Obama’s Backbone
• Charlie Savage (NYT), Potential Nominees Obama May Consider to Fill Antonin Scalia’s Seat
• Rob Hunter, The Supreme Court After Scalia

David Souter

• NY Times, The Judgment of Justice David Souter
• Kermit Roosevelt, Justice Cincinnatus [Ed.:  If we started a “Draft Souter” movement would he consider coming out of retirement?]

Politics

• Anna Maria Barry-Jester, What Went Wrong In Flint
• John Sides, How the United States built a welfare state for the wealthy
• Mike Konczal, Bernie’s Wall Street Plan Is Actually Not Enough
• Robert Reich, The Death of the Republican Party
• Bill Curry, The Clintons really don’t get it: False attacks and failed strategies as Hillary repeats 2008
• Zach Carter, The Fight Between Bernie Sanders And Hillary Clinton Is Officially Super Ugly
• Mike the Mad Biologist, The Ghosts of McGovern and Al Smith
• Christopher Cook, The Pragmatic Case for Bernie Sanders

Economics

• The Dollars and Sense Blog, Links on the Kerfuffle about Friedman’s Sanders Analysis
• J.W. Mason, Plausibility
• Jared Bernstein, Actual GDP, meet Potential GDP [Ed.:  Relevant to Mason’s Item #5.]
• Brad DeLong, No: We Can’t Wave a Magic Demand Wand Now and Get the Recovery We Threw Away in 2009 [Ed.:  This also addresses Mason’s #5.  I think it’s a strong argument that Friedman’s prediction is overly optimistic.]
• Jared Bernstein, Charles Manski on the importance of accounting for policy uncertainty
• Dean Baker, Bernie Sanders’ Non-Growth Dividend

Health Care

• Christopher Ingraham, What happens when you get stoned every single day for five years
• Sarah Kliff, This is how America rations health care

Environment

• Nicholas St. Fleur (NYT), Two-Thirds of the World Faces Severe Water Shortages
• Tatiana Schlossberg (NYT), Measuring the Planet’s Health in Vibrant Shades of Green

Science

• Eli Rabett, Normal Science
• Sean Carroll, All Physics Is Local
• Adrian Cho, Remembering Joseph Weber, the controversial pioneer of gravitational waves
• Xiaozhi Lim (NYT), Unusual Molecules Shine Light on New Applications

Ending on a Positive Note

• Yvette Tendick, Biking, a gateway drug to social awareness
• The Atlantic, The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever