Must Read

• Charlie Pierce, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and the Many Faces of Populism
• Charles Marohn, Easy Choices
• Jim Lynch, Flint [Michigan water] crisis response delayed for months [The officials who knew about the lead contamination and did nothing should spend the rest of their natural lives in prison.]

Should Read

• Eli Rabett, Questions, Bunnies Got Questions
• Rich Yeselson, The Return of the 1920s
• Dean Baker (NYT), A Progressive Way to End Corporate Taxes [I love it!]
• Emily Ann Epstein on Roger May’s Looking at Appalachia
• Rachel Quednau, A Locally-Based Life

Contaminated Drinking Water in Flint, MI

• Mitch Smith (NYT), Flint Wants Safe Water, and Someone to Answer for Its Crisis
• Charlie Pierce, Nobody Worries About Water Crises Until They Happen on American Soil
• Curt Guyette, Are Flint’s lead problems just incompetence or something worse?
• Michael Holtz, Could Flint water crisis lead to criminal charges? Michigan prosecutor investigates.
• Cathy O’Neil, Which Michigan cities are in receivership?

Suburbia

• Aarian Marshall, The Plight of the Suburban Office Park
• Mike the Mad Biologist, What Is the Commons of the Suburb?

Economics

• Joseph Stiglitz, The New Geo-Economics
• Paul Krugman, Economists and Inequality
• Bill McBride, Public and Private Sector Payroll Jobs: Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama
• Brad DeLong, Future Economists Will Probably Call This Decade the ‘Longest Depression’
• Thomas Piketty, Capital, Predistribution and Redistribution

Work (More specifically, Republican efforts to screw workers.)

• Ross Eisenbrey, Friedrichs case threatens to push down wages for workers beyond the public sector
• Harold Meyerson, Friedrichs: Son of Bush v. Gore
• Sheila Bapat, The Right-to-Work Movement’s Attack on Women Workers

Politics

• Janine Jackson, GOP’s Nikki Haley Stands Up for an Imaginary America
• Robert Reich, Paul Ryan’s 7 Terrible Ideas

Russia

• Rick Gladstone (NYT), Air Force General Says Russia Missile Defense ‘Very Serious’
• Tyler Rogoway, Here’s Russia’s S-400 Missile System In Action, And How The U.S. Would Deal With It
• Graham Allison, U.S.-Russia Relations: What Would Henry Kissinger Do? [Kissinger is vile but that’s beside the point.]

Health and Health Care

• Ed Yong, The Curious Case of a Contagious Cancer
• NPR, Startling New Evidence Cancer Is Contagious [From 2008]
• David Quammen, Contagious Cancer
• The Bedford Citizen, [Massachusetts] House Passes Substance Addiction Legislation to Enhance Continuum of Care and Prevention Efforts
• Marjorie Rosenthal, Harming Patient Satisfaction In The Process Of Measuring It
• Paul Krugman (NYT), TINA and the ACA

Science and Technology

• Elisabeth Pain, Using PowerPoint to shine on stage
• Anil Dash, Towards Humane Tech

Ending on a Positive Note

• boston.com, Scenes from the No Pants Subway Ride
• The Bedford Citizen, Women of Science, 2015
• Richard Binzel, Undaunted Exploration: Reaching for Pluto and Beyond