Must Read

• Corey Robin, Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie:  Sixteen notes from the presidential campaign
• Seth Ackerman, Meet the New Harry and Louise [Ed.:  See Health Care below for related material.]
• Steve Hendricks, Hillary Clinton and the Northern Strategy
• Robert Reich, The Most Pragmatic Way to Fix Democracy

Should Read

• Glenn Greenwald, The Seven Stages of Establishment Backlash: Corbyn/Sanders Edition
• Robert Reich, The Volcanic Core Fueling the 2016 Election
• John Michael Greer, Donald Trump and the Politics of Resentment
• Robert Pollin, Note to Hillary: Clintonomics Was a Disaster for Most Americans
• Daniel Larison, Clinton’s “Non-Intervention” Pandering
• Walter Benn Michaels, Let Them Eat Diversity
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (NYT), One Way to Rebuild Our Institutions

Flint, MI Water Contamination

• Abby Goodnough, Monica Davey, and Mitch Smith (NYT), When the Water Turned Brown
• Liam Stack (NYT), Michigan Gave State Employees Purified Water as It Denied Crisis, Emails Show

Reparations for Slavery

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
• Ryan Cooper, Ta-Nehisi Coates is too quick to write off Bernie Sanders
• Jamelle Bouie, Bernie Sanders Is Right That Reparations Would Be Divisive

Our Government

• Matt Taibbi, Inside the Horror Show That is Congress [Ed.:  Profile of Bernie Sanders from 2005]
• Coral Davenport (NYT), Senate Begins Debate on Comprehensive Bipartisan Energy Bill

Work and Economics

• Ben Norton, Myth of the Middle Class: Most Americans Don’t Even Have $1,000 in Savings
• Paul Krugman Reviews ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’ by Robert J. Gordon
• Julia Preston (NYT), Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

• Vicki Needham, Dems blame trade deal as Ford exits Japan
• Dean Baker, Peterson Institute Study Shows TPP Will Lead to $357 Billion Increase in Annual Imports
• Glyn Moody, ‘More Realistic’ Modelling Of TPP’s Effects Predicts 450,000 US Jobs Lost, Contraction Of Economy
• Ed.:  In case you forgot, Bernie Sanders has always been a staunch opponent of the TPP.

Readings from The American Conservative

• Rod Dreher, Trump & The Dreamliner
• Rod Dreher, The Potemkin Village of Conservatism
• Rod Dreher, Trump’s Machiavellian Move
• Pat Buchanan, A Revolutionary Moment?
• Daniel Larison, The 2016 Election and the Failures of the “Governing Wing”

Politics

• Glenn Greenwald, Paul Krugman Unironically Anoints Himself Arbiter of “Seriousness”: Only Clinton Supporters Eligible
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Forgetting History: The New Democrat Edition
• Holly Wood, Millennials Repulsed by Boomers’ Coca-Cola Patriotism
• Dan Kervick, The New Economic Left Revolution
• Dan Kervick, Wonks? Or Minions?
• Bill Scher, Bernie or Hillary: Who Has The Right Theory Of Presidential Change?
• Sen. Paul G. Kirk, Jr. (D-MA) endorses Bernie Sanders [Ed.:  Paul Kirk filled Sen. Kennedy’s seat after he passed until Scott Brown took office.]
• Corey Robin, Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness

Whistleblowers

• Mieke Eoyang, Should Intelligence Whistleblowers Be Protected?
• Dave Phillips (NYT), Wounded Warrior Project Spends Lavishly on Itself, Insiders Say [Ed.:  I hope it’s better than this report suggests but reading this is enough to get me to some research and look for organizations with the same mission and lower overhead spending before I make another donation to WWP.  Charity Navigator gives them a decent rating but there are higher-rated organizations.]
  

Weasels

• Charles Gaba, Ted Cruz & the Case of the Vanishing Health Plan

Health Care

• Bernie Sanders, Medicare-for-All Plan Detailed by Sanders: Improves Health Care, Cuts Costs
• Gerald Friedman, United States can afford single payer health care program
• Dylan Matthews, Study: Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan is almost twice as expensive as he says
• David Himmelstein and Steffie Woodhandler, On Kenneth Thorpe’s Analysis of Senator Sanders’ Single-Payer Reform Plan [Ed.:  Contrast this with Matthews’ breathless and uncritical reporting.]

Ending Note

• Andrew Plotsky, A Fraught Search for Succession in Craftsmanship