Must Watch
- Daphne Matziaraki (NYT), 4.1 Miles
Should Read
- Susan E. Reed, In Collapsed Truce In Syria, A Deadly Circle Of Revenge And Mistakes
- Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me; Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way
- Maria Farrell, Why surveillance capitalism is every bit as bad as Stansted Airport
- John Quiggin, Face the facts: competition and profit don’t work in health, education or prisons
- John Quiggin, Why can’t our leaders learn from 30 years of failure in health and education?
Worth Reading
- David Leonhardt (NYT), The Dog Ate My Planet
- Van Newkirk II, The EPA Still Can’t Protect People From the Environment
- Robert Walton, Mass. Gov. Baker signs climate change executive order
- Frederick Hewett, Without sustained public clamor, climate change will remain a nonissue [Ed.: Fully-consistent with the substance of Baker’s executive order]
- Coral Davenport (NYT), Obama Climate Plan, Now in Court, May Hinge on Error in 1990 Law
- LeeAnn Hall, As Judges Debate Climate Policy, Lives Hang In the Balance
- Harold Meyerson, Young Voters Love Gary Johnson — For All the Wrong Reasons
- Joshua Holland, Your Vote for Jill Stein Is a Wasted Vote [Ed.: Holland’s experience with the Greens is the same as mine ca. 2002-3.]
- Brian Beutler, Don’t Blame Millennials for This Scarily Close Election. Blame Baby Boomers.
- Chris Dillow, Generational vs class divides
- Philip Jenkins, Of Monsters and Black Lives
- Neil Gross (NYT), Is There a ‘Ferguson Effect’?
- Jack Holmes, These 14 Tweets Will Show You How Badly Trump Screwed Atlantic City
- Matthew Robare, Why Sprawl Is Not the Only Choice
- Charles Marohn, POTUS: Zoning Sucks
- Rachel Quednau, The Trials of Tiny Homebuilding
- Jess Bidgood (NYT), Scenes From New England’s Drought: Dry Wells, Dead Fish, and Ailing Farms
- Erica Goode (NYT), How Small Forests Can Help Save the Planet
Ending on a Positive Note
- James Wagner (NYT), Bartolo Colon’s Secret: It’s the Wrist, Not the Waist
- James Wagner (NYT), Mets Overcome a Season of Adversity and Claim a Wild-Card Berth