Must Read
- Steve Randy Waldman, Depression is a Choice
- Dean Baker, Fellow Travelers of the Depression Lobby
- Sonia Nazario, The Children of the Drug Wars: A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis (From the article: “Many Americans, myself included, believe in deporting unlawful immigrants, but see a different imperative with refugees.”)
Should Read
- Dara Lind, Everything you need to know about the child and family migrant crisis
- Brad Plumer, The US highway funding crisis in six charts
- Josh Barro, This Roadwork Made Possible By Underfunding Pensions
- Brad Plumer, Leaking underground storage tanks — the popular new way to fund roads
- Richard Fausset and Donald G. McNeil, Jr., After Lapses, C.D.C. Admits a Lax Culture at Labs
- David Leonhardt, The Quiet Movement to Make Government Fail Less Often
- Brian Beutler, Media Malpractice: Iraq War Blunderers Keep Getting Invited to Criticize Obama With No Disclosure of their Past Incompetence
- Roger Cohen, Israel’s Bloody Status Quo
Environment
- Mark Winston, Our Bees, Ourselves: Bees and Colony Collapse
- Joe Romm, Quoting John Christy On Climate Change Is Like Quoting Dick Cheney On Iraq
- Ari Phillips, For the First Time, California Gets Ready for Mandatory Water Restrictions
- Gardiner Harris, Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition
Politics
- Dennis G, I beg to differ with the wanker from Teatardickistan…
- Thomas Edsall, The Coming Democratic Schism
- Dylan Matthews, [Reason magazine’s] poll proves that millennials have totally incoherent political views [Ed.: Hey, where’s my socially conservative, fiscally liberal party?]
- Joseph Stiglitz, American Delusions Down Under
Economics
- Danielle Kurtzleben, 3 reasons the teen summer job is vanishing
- James Pethokoukis, Why Amity Shlaes is dead wrong about inflation
- Robert Shiller, Booming Until It Hurts?
Science
- Jeff Spross, Scientists Just Discovered A New Key Reason Why Cities Get So Hot
- Ontar Corp., Radiance Case Within PcModWin5