But first, a public service announcement:

Must Read

• J.W. Mason, Disgorge the Cash
• Josh Barro (NYT), What Is ‘Middle-Class Economics’?
• Molly Ivins, Lyin’ Bully
• Matt Taibbi, Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet

Should Read

• BBC News, Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead
• Paul Krugman (NYT), The Closed Minds Problem
• Eric Chandler, Never Volunteer

Work

• Paul Krugman (NYT), Rip Van Skillsgap
• Lawrence Mishel (NYT), Even Better Than a Tax Cut
• Florence Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron, Power from the People
• NY Times Editorial Board (NYT), Wisconsin, Workers and the 2016 Election
• Hiroko Tabuchi (NYT), Next Goal for Walmart Workers:  More Hours
• Robert Charette, An Engineering Career:  Only a Young Person’s Game?

Environment

• … and Then There’s Physics, Willie Soon Saga [Ed.:  With apologies to John Ashbery and my 9th grade French teacher, “Soon est busted.”]
• Joe Romm, In January, U.S. Saw Vastly More Daily Warm Records Than Cold Records. February, Too.
• Steven Chu (physicist and former Energy Secretary) on climate change, energy efficiency and other things we should pay more attention to:

Snow

• Jack Lepiarz, Facing 100 Inches Of Snow, Boston Looks North For Snow Removal Lessons

Economics

• Dean Baker, Lost in Numbers In Illinois
• Joan Fitzgerald, Why Markets Can’t Price the Priceless

Health

• Dean Baker, Ezekiel Emanuel’s Unnecessary Originality on New Drugs

Culture

• Mark Dwortzan, Snowed In The Suburbs:  Some Thoughts on Curbing Our Dependence On Cars
• Katharine Seelye (NYT), Vermont Tackles Heroin, With Progress in Baby Steps
• Timothy Kudo (NYT), How We Learned to Kill