Must Read
- Natasha Geiling, California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System
- Radley Balko, This isn’t 1968. Baltimore isn’t Watts. And Hillary Clinton isn’t Michael Dukakis.
- Eduardo Porter (NYT), Income Inequality Is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues
- driftglass, David Brooks: The Great Project Continues
Should Read
- Jonathan Chait, The Obamacare Doomsday Cult Struggles to Adapt to World That Did Not End
- Charlie Savage and Jonathan Weisman (NYT), N.S.A. Phone Data Collection Is Illegal, Appeals Court Rules
- Tim Dee (NYT), Our Bleak Exile of Nature
- MIT Washington Office, The Future Postponed: Why Declining Investment in Basic Research Threatens a U.S. Innovation Deficit
- Emily Badger, The long, painful and repetitive history of how Baltimore became Baltimore
Politics: Just what is the matter with Kansas voters?
- The Kansas City Star, In Kansas City area, jobs aren’t fleeing Missouri after Kansas tax cuts
- Invictus, We Know What’s the Matter With Kansas
- Catherine Rampell, Kansas shows us what could happen if Republicans win in 2016
Politics: Other
- Andrew Prokop, The 5 biggest policy differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
- BBC, Election results: Conservatives on course for majority
- Paul Krugman (NYT), Triumph of the Unthinking
- CBC News, Alberta NDP election triumph: What people are saying
- Brad DeLong, Live from the Tar Sands: Alberta Provincial Election Blogging
Baltimore
- Chris Blattman, The Wire got it backwards
Economics
- Jared Bernstein, Jobs Report: Solid April Follows Weak March; Some Signs of Slower Job Growth; Negative Impact of Strong Dollar Clear in Manufacturing
- Ross Eisenbrey, Skepticism About Trade Deals is Warranted
- Jared Bernstein, Three more facts to add to the [Council of Economic Advisors’] 10 facts about trade
- Mona Chalabi, U.S. Tax Rates: The Big Picture
- Joshua Holland, How an Astounding Right-Wing Lie About the Economy Was Born
- NPR Planet Money, The Fall And Rise Of U.S. Inequality, In 2 Graphs
Science
- Chamara Abeysekera, Baptiste Joalland, Nuwandi Ariyasingha, Lindsay N. Zack, Ian R. Sims, Robert W. Field, and Arthur G. Suits, Chirped-Pulse Uniform Flow Spectrometer Determines Product Branching in a Multichannel Reaction
Environment
- Claire Moser, GOP House Leaders Create ‘Action Group’ To Seize And Sell America’s Public Lands
- Weston Nurseries, The Ten Basics of Square Foot Gardening
Miscellany
- James Fallows, Asheville [NC] Just ‘Happened’ to Develop a Nice Downtown—or Did It?
- Bill Littlefield, The Real NFL Scandal Has Nothing To Do With ‘Deflate-Gate’
- Jamie Loftus, These Powerful Cards Tell an Honest Story About Cancer