Must Read

• Harold Meyerson, The 40-Year Slump
• Michael Moore (Aug. 2011), 30 Years Ago Today:  The Day the Middle Class Died
• Whiskey Fire, Injured the Kid

Should Read

• Jason Kass, Bill Gates Can’t Build A Toilet
• Lydia DePillis, The real loser of the recession is rural America
• Brad Plumer, The D.C. Circuit is the court at the center of the filibuster fight.  Here’s why it matters.

Climate Change

• Charlie Pierce, The Important Climate Conference You’re Hearing Nothing About
• NY Times, Deals at Climate Meeting Advance Global Effort

Health Care and the Politics Thereof

• Sarah Kliff, Three Things We Learned from Thursday’s Obamacare Update
• NY Times, A New G.O.P. Excuse for Doing Nothing
• Jonathan Bernstein, How Republicans Lost the Chance to Win Obamacare
• Boston.com, Mass. consumers cannot keep canceled health plans

Science and Technology

• AAAS, Trends in DOD [Science and Technology] Spending
• Andrew Revkin, The Long Shadow of Sequester Cuts on U.S. Science Investment
• Brad DeLong, Bayes Rule: It’s Not Just a Good Idea–It’s the Law!
• Andrew Gelman, Tables > figures yet again

Economics

• Paul Krugman, A Permanent Slump?
• Bob Kuttner, Krugman Boots One

Military and Defense

• NY Times, Options Narrowed, U.S. Is Said to Weigh Destroying Syrian Chemicals at Sea
• NY Times, Navy Was Warned of Contractor at Center of Bribery Inquiry
• NY Times, China Claims Air Rights Over Disputed Islands