Must Read
- Lance Mannion, When I was your age, there used to be conservatives who were actually conservative
- Beth Macy (NYT), Who’s Speaking Up for the American Worker
- Alexis Goldstein, 13 Senate Democrats Roll Over on Trade Deal…for Nothing [Ed.: Nice work, assholes.]
Should Read
- Dean Baker, Rich People’s Rules and the TPP
- brooklynbadboy, TPP fight illustrates Left’s depth problem
- Robert X. Cringely, The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why [Ed.: See Note 1 below.]
- Dean Baker, The 2001 Recession Actually Was Really Bad News
- Andrew Gelman, When the counterintuitive becomes the norm, arguments get twisted out of shape
- Kaiser Fung and Andrew Gelman, What’s So Fun About Fake Data?
Environment
- NPR, How A Historical Blunder Helped Create The Water Crisis In The West
- Julie Sklar, Powering desalination with the sun
- Eduardo Porter (NYT), Climate Change Calls for Science, Not Hope [Ed.: Not bad but read the essay and one finds there’s more than a little irony in the title.]
Health and Healthcare
- Supreme Court of the United States, King et al. vs Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Hooray for Obamacare
- Ben Jackson, Dear State And Federal Representatives: A Hotel Room Is Not A Home
Birds of a Feather
- Casey Michel, Putin’s Plot to Get Texas to Secede
Business
Notes
- Justin Fox had a piece on the same topic a couple weeks ago. Serious and important, but I had to stab myself in the thigh with a fork eight times to stay awake all the way to the end. In contrast, Cringely’s piece held my attention all the way through.