Must Watch/Read
- Adolph Reed, Jr., Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It’s Important [Ed.: Also from Reed – here, here, and here.]
- Charlie Gardner, The Curated Landscape
Should Read
- Chris Dillow, When newer isn’t better
- Mike the Mad Biologist, Campbell’s Law Strikes Education Again
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (NYT), What Apple Teaches Us About Taxes
- Nick Tabor, Gary Johnson’s Hard-Right Record
- Mike the Mad Biologist, “Tell Us What Your Plan Is To Make Our Life Better”
- Lois Weiner, Dream Big on Labor Day
Politics, Work, and Economics
- Mark Thoma, Trump’s Taco Truck Fear Campaign Diverts Attention From the Real Issues
- Ezra Klein, In America, Labor Day is a Lie
- Sergey Nigai, Consumer heterogeneity and the gains from trade
- Jared Bernstein, The non-mystery of declining employment rates for prime-age workers
- Mark Karlin, Why Is the US Aligned With Saudi Arabia?
- NYT Editorial Board, America Is Complicit in the Carnage in Yemen
- Daniel Larison, 60 Members of Congress Call for Delay of Saudi Arms Sale
Environment
- Alex Brown, Here’s How NASA Thinks Society Will Collapse
- Steven Cherry, Want to Save the Environment? Build More Cities
- Kitty van Hensbergen, Q&A: when a theoretical article is misinterpreted
- New England Historical Society, The 1965 Drought, New England’s Worst Ever
- Loren Sommer, In The Battle To Save Frogs, Scientists Fight Fungus With Fungus
Technology
- Neal Boudette (NYT), The Superglue Diet: How to Make a Lighter, Fuel-Sipping Car
- Jeff Faust, House panel criticizes commercial remote sensing licensing
Science
- Bruce Dorminey, Venus Before Mars? The Case For Real Time TeleRobotics From Venus Orbit
- Nicholas St. Fluer (NYT), Juno Offers New Look at Jupiter’s North Pole
- Inigo, Metallica’s James Hetfield now has a PhD in astrophysics
Ending on a Positive Note
- MIT Office of Digital Learning, New season of “Science Out Loud” sparks curiosity
- Prairie Moon Nursery, Monarchs on Meadow Blazing Star: