Must Read/Watch

• Mark Kleiman, Don’t just stand there, do something! (Provided there’s something useful to do.)  [Ed.: See Note 1 below.]
• James Suroweicki, The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P.
• Russell Berman, Here Come the Republican Moderates [Ed.:  For the good of the country let’s hope so.]

[Ed.:  Related reading here and here and here.]

Should Read

• Robert Kuttner, Bernie Sanders Is About as Radical as Harry Truman
• Patrick McGreevy, Gov. Brown approves automatic voter registration for Californians
• Tyler Rogoway, The Pentagon’s ‘Concurrency Myth’ Is Now Available In Supercarrier Size [Ed.:  Related reading]
• Charlie Pierce, Texans Are Dying Because Texas Fears ‘Job-Killing Regulations’
• Monica Davey (NYT), Flint Officials Are No Longer Saying the Water Is Fine

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

• Jared Bernstein, Making sense of the TPP: Don’t confuse trade with trade deals
• Clyde Prestowitz in conversation with David Dayen, What’s Next for the TPP
• Dean Baker, Donald Trump Says His Tax Cut Will Lead to 6% GDP Growth and President Obama Says TPP Will Boost Growth
• Dean Baker, That Massive TPP
• Charlie Pierce, Obama (Quietly) Finalizes His ‘Legacy-Making’ Trade Deal

Guns

• Jack Healy and Julie Turkewitz (NYT), Common Response After Killings in Oregon: ‘I Want to Have a Gun’
• Katie Rogers (NYT), Student Is Killed in Shooting at Northern Arizona University [Ed.:  Allow students to carry guns on campus and I expect there will be a lot more incidents like this.]
• The Daily Texan, Citing concerns with campus carry, professor emeritus to withdraw from University
• Andy Borowitz, Americans Opposed to Being Shot Seek Representation in Washington

Politics

• David Edwards, Alabama to stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties with 75% black registered voters
• Oliver Willis, GOP Quietly Admits The Truth About Their Attacks On Planned Parenthood
• Josh Barro (NYT), Marco Rubio’s Puppies-and-Rainbows Tax Plan
• Bill Scher, How Do Republican Tax Plans Compare To George W. Bush’s?
• driftglass, Republicans Fuck Up Another Two-Car Funeral
• Paul Krugman (NYT), Paul Ryan, Centrist Crush
• John Harvey, Can America Afford Bernie Sanders’ Agenda?
• Mark Thoma, Economic Growth vs. Social Insurance—Why Can’t We Have Both?

Hillary Clinton

• PBS NewsHour, Full Interview: Hillary Clinton on trade pact doubts, dealing with Putin
• Jennifer Epstein, Hillary Clinton to Propose High-Frequency Trading Tax, Volcker Rule Changes
• Mike Konczal, Critics say Hillary Clinton is pro-Wall Street. Her Wall Street reform plan says otherwise.

Work

• Rachel Emma Silverman, Gender Bias at Work Turns Up in Feedback: Research suggests women are assessed differently, affecting their advancement
• Dan Essrow, Urban Outfitters Gets into the Holiday Spirit by Asking its Employees to Work for Free

Economics

• The Times of India, H-1B visas to go cheaper as ‘discriminatory’ outsourcing fee lapses [Ed.:  It’s all a matter of perspective.]
• Robert Scott, Failure to Stem Dollar Appreciation Has Put Manufacturing Recovery in Reverse
• Heather Stewart, Next financial crash is coming – and before we’ve fixed flaws from last one
• Josh Barro (NYT), The Cadillac Tax: Why Economists, but Few Others, Love It
• Josh Bivens, ACA Excise Tax on Expensive Health Plans is an Unambiguous Pay Cut

Science

• Malte Meinshausen, et al., Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C
• Rong-Gong Lin II, Massive El Niño is now ‘too big to fail,’ scientist says
• NASA, NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
• ScienceDebate, 87% of Americans Say Candidates Should Have Basic Understanding of Science Informing Public Policy
• Andrew Gelman, Flamebait: “Mathiness” in economics and political science
• Josh Eibelman, You’re Not Lazy, You Just Quickly Minimize Exertion, Study Suggests

Ending on a Positive Note

• Mike the Mad Biologist, A Very Helpful FAQ
• Boston.com, These old pictures show the North End was always awesome
• Andrew Gelman, Most successful blog post ever

Notes

1. Once upon a time when I was a grad student living on $1000/month – probably about $2k in current dollars – Mark paid me $150 to move his office furniture.  It was a good deal for both parties I think.