Must Read

• The Bedford Citizen, Diversity: An Open Letter from Bedford Schools Superintendent Jon Sills

Should Read

• FAIR, Once Again: Progressive Budget’s Media Blackout
• Congressional Progressive Caucus, Better Off Budget
• Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, Why A Larger Navy And A Smaller Army Just Isn’t A Good Idea
• Project on Government Oversight, Federal Contracting Hearing Leaves Unanswered Questions
• NY Times, Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress

Law

• NY Times, How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies’ Reach
• NY Times, U.S. Criticized for Lack of Action on Mortgage Fraud
• NY Times, North Carolina: Judge Orders Action at Ash Dumps
• Project on Government Oversight, House Unanimously Passes Freedom of Information Improvements
• Ed Kilgore, The Central Flaw in Hobby Lobby’s Suit

Climate Science:  Politics

• NY Times, Senate Democrats’ All-Nighter Flags Climate Change
• Charlie Pierce, Nothing to Worry About in Colorado
• Steven Mufson, Four reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail

Dealing with Drought

• Mark Bittman, Exploiting California’s Drought
• Steven Kurutz, Brown is the New Green

Pres. Obama Gets One Two Right

• Charlie Pierce, Still Doubting Where Obama Stands on Ukraine?
• Jared Bernstein, The Administration’s New Overtime Proposal: Some Background on a Great Idea

Politics

• NY Times, Industry Behind Anti-Wage-Hike Letter
• Air Force Times, Why the Air Force wants to keep Global Hawk and retire U-2s
• Adolph Reed Jr., What Is Left?

Does Ezra Klein Have Matt Bai Disease?

• Gabriel Arana, Ezra Klein’s Queer New Hire
• Matt Taibbi, Matt Bai’s Post-Partisanship

Sports

• Extra Bases, Scouts share thoughts on Bogaerts, Middlebrooks
• NY Times, Scoring a Baseball Bargain at Spring Training
• NY Times, In Club Hockey League, Meager Funding Doesn’t Kill Appetite for Competition
• NY Times, A Female Trailblazer’s Next Notch

Human Interest

• Kelly O’Brien, ‘My Brother, Teddy’