Must Read/Watch

• FrontLine, Putin’s Way
• The Nib, Vaccines Work.  Here Are the Facts
• Erika Eichelberger, The House Just Passed a GOP Bill Wiping Out Wall Street Reforms
• Dean Baker, As S.&P. Prepares to Settle, Worth Remembering the Killing of the Franken Amendment

Should Read

• Mark Thoma, Full Employment Alone Won’t Solve Problem of Stagnating Wages
• Larry Mishel, Why Your Wages Are Idling in Neutral
• Jonathan Chait, It’d Be Nice If Conservatives Were Empiricists, But Let’s Face It
• Bruce Bartlett, Why the GOP should stop invoking Reaganomics [Ed.:  Bartlett is an empiricist who is conservative.  I liked him for Treasury Secretary when Geithner stepped down.]

International

• Mikhail Gorbachev, A New Cold War Order?
• FrontLine, Putin’s Way
• Sarah Chayes, Thieves of State
• Ryan Cooper, The Eurozone must choose: Democracy or austerity?

Wages and Income

• Larry Mishel, Why Your Wages Are Idling in Neutral
• Neil Irwin, Three Signs Pointing to Bigger Raises in 2015
• Mark Thoma, Full Employment Alone Won’t Solve Problem of Stagnating Wages

Financial Regulations and Reforms

• Jared Bernstein, Rep. Chris Van Hollen’s Bold Attack on Inequality
• Dean Baker, A Financial Transactions Tax Is Not a Major Tax Increase on Investors
• Dean Baker, The Cost to Savers of the Democrats’ Wall Street Sales Tax
• Ben Protess (NYT), S.&P. Nears Settlement With Justice Dept. Over Inflated Ratings
• Dean Baker, As S.&P. Prepares to Settle, Worth Remembering the Killing of the Franken Amendment
• Jonathan Weisman and Eric Lipton (NYT), In New Congress, Wall St. Pushes to Undermine Dodd-Frank Reform
• Erika Eichelberger, The House Just Passed a GOP Bill Wiping Out Wall Street Reforms

Economics

• Paul Krugman (NYT), Reaganomics Undefended
• Bruce Bartlett, Why the GOP should stop invoking Reaganomics
• Michael Corkery and Peter Eavis (NYT), As Oil Prices Fall, Banks Serving the Energy Industry Brace for a Jolt
• Diane Cardwell and Nelson Schwartz (NYT), Lower Oil Prices Provide Benefits to U.S. Workers
• Barbara Grady, The real social cost of carbon: $220 per ton, report finds

Politics

• George Zornick, Elizabeth Warren Just Gave a Really Important—and Revealing—Speech
• Erika Eichelberger, Elizabeth Warren Wins. The Treasury Nominee She Opposed Just Withdrew.
• Richard Eskow, Populism Rises – And The ‘Center’ Strikes Back
• Renee Loth, Deconstructing Charlie Baker’s Puzzling Cabinet Selections
• Luke Brinker, Defiant [Kansas Gov.] Sam Brownback vows to move toward zero income tax — and make Kansas even more unequal [Lead line:  “His supply side economic experiment has been an utter disaster, but Brownback can’t be bothered.]
• Jonathan Chait, It’d Be Nice If Conservatives Were Empiricists, But Let’s Face It
• Ari Phillips, Ted Cruz Takes Space And Marco Rubio Takes Earth: How The Senate Flip Could Undermine Science

Science

• Andrew Gelman, What’s misleading about the phrase, “Statistical significance is not the same as practical significance”
• Futility Closet, Fun With Refraction
• Eli Rabett, Alexander Graham Bell, Father of Measuring Carbon Dioxide Accurately
• Rebecca Onion, History of American Forests: Tree maps made for 1884 census.
• NASA Earth Observatory, Where the Trees Are
• BBC News, Lost Beagle2 probe found ‘intact’ on Mars

Healthcare

• Margot Sanger-Katz (NYT), Signs of a Decline in Financial Distress Connected to Medical Bills
• The Nib, Vaccines Work.  Here Are the Facts

Media Criticism

• Driftglass, Driftglass Birthday Fundraiser:  Day One