Must Read
- Robert Kuttner, America’s Collapsing Trade Initiatives
- Jared Bernstein, The success of the Affordable Care Act is a hugely inconvenient truth for its opponents [Ed.: Obamacare has been quite effective at increasing coverage. That’s great.]
- Martha Bebinger, AG Says State Must Do More To Control Health Care Costs [Ed.: Unfortunately, Obamacare does not provide an effective mechanism for reining in health care costs.]
Should Read
- Cathy O’Neil, Interrogating algorithms
- David Cooper, In Virtually Every State, the Poverty Rate is Still Higher than Before the Recession
- Tom Keane, Politicians And Privacy: Why Text Messages Should Be Off Limits
- Janna Malamud Smith, Breathe And Stay Curious: My Self-Improvement Strategy For Talking Politics
- driftglass, As His Batshit Chickens Come Home to Roost. Again.
- Jonathan Weisman and Michael Shear (NYT), The Post-Boehner Congress and Washington’s Sense of Dread
- Charlie Pierce, People Want to Hear What Bernie Sanders Has to Say. The DNC Doesn’t.
- Shane Ryan, Behind the scenes with Bernie Sanders: Three days in Iowa that explain why Hillary’s fading and the Dems have a new front-runner
Politics
- Christopher Ingraham, How House Republicans lurched to the right and left John Boehner behind
- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Why I Still Think Fiorina Was a Terrible CEO
- Charlie Pierce, Carly Fiorina: Strong, Crisp, and Effective if You Ignore the Facts
- Tamara Keith, Why Hillary Clinton May Not Have The Female Vote Locked Up
- Renée Loth, Carly, Hillary And The Politics Of Gender
Government
- Mike Konczal, Hail to the Pencil Pusher [Ed.: Re-learning the lessons of the mid-19th century…]
Health, Health Care, and Obamacare’s Failure to Fail
- Mike the Mad Biologist, This Isn’t The Way To Prevent Antibiotic Misuse
- Richard Knox, Cancer Drug Mark-Ups: Year Of Gleevec Costs $159 To Make But Sells For $106K
- Steven Brill on WBUR’s On Point, Johnson & Johnson And The Big Lies Of Big Pharma
- Charles Gaba, FWIW, I’m pretty sure total QHP selections just broke 13.6 Million.
- Jared Bernstein, Smell Something, Say Something: Obamacare, O’Reilly, and full-time jobs
Pope Francis
- Charlie Pierce, Welcome to America, Pope Francis. Now Save the World.
- Eileen McNamara, How The Pope Is Making Cafeteria Catholics Out Of Conservatives
- Margaret Talev and Arit John, America Loves Pope Francis, But Not His Stance on Climate Change: Bloomberg Poll
- Tim Egan (NYT), A Francis Effect for a Broken System
- Adele Stan, Pope Decries Fundamentalism, Insulting Church’s Own Allies
- German Lopez, Fox News’s Shepard Smith has the perfect response to Pope Francis’s conservative critics
Economics
- Dean Baker, The Argument for Higher Interest Rates: Are the Bankers Evil or Stupid?
- Radio Open Source, The New New Deal
Math and Science
- Andrew Gelman, Bootstrap averaging: Examples where it works and where it doesn’t work
- Andrew Gelman, Have weak data. But need to make decision. What to do?
- NASA, The Rich Color Variations of Pluto
Environment
- Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Coral Davenport (NYT), China to Announce Cap-and-Trade Program to Limit Emissions
- Samantha Page, Bipartisan Bill Seeks To Reduce Greenhouse Gases That Make Up 40 Percent Of Global Warming
Defense
- Tyler Rogoway, Perilous Puzzle: Su-30SM Fighter Jets Appear At Russia’s Growing Base In Syria
- Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo (NYT), Military Analyst Again Raises Red Flags on Progress in Iraq
Race Relations
- David Granger, James Baldwin Saw America as It Was, and How It Would Be
Ending On a Positive Note
- Christian Stadler, 5 Reasons Why Immigrants Make Great Entrepreneurs To Boost An Economy [Ed.: Featuring one of our neighbors!]
- Gordon Edes, Red Sox rookie Noe Ramirez has come a long way from East L.A.
- Bill Pennington (NYT), Washington Nationals Use Baseball as a Beacon of Hope at Youth Academy
- Karen Crouse (NYT), 100 Years Old. 5 World Records.
- How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
- NY Times, The Next Generation of Beer [Ed.: Yuengling is a family operation.]
- Boston men encounter a sea monsta: Part 1 and Part 2. [Ed.: Warning: Contains more f-bombs than I can count.]
- Tim Rohan (NYT), Mets Clinch First Postseason Berth Since 2006 [Ed.: I’ve been following the Mets in the NY Times. They’re a fun team. This is great.]