Must Read/Listen
- Binyamin Appelbaum, Fed Says Growth Lifts the Affluent, Leaving Behind Everyone Else
- Steve Randy Waldman, Hard money is not a mistake [Ed.: See also his post from several months ago, Depression is a Choice]
- John Delaney, The solution to fixing dysfunction in Congress
- John Harwood, Voting Restrictions Are Key Variable in Midterm Elections
Should Read
- Radio Open Source, Hacking Democracy [Ed.: Guests are NY Gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, and New Yorker reporter Hendrik Hertzberg]
- Brad DeLong, Claims that the Bulk of the Post-2008 Decline in Labor Force Participation Are “Structural” Need to Surmount a Very High Bar Indeed
- Brad DeLong, The Greater Depression
- Ezra Klein, The Obamacare train keeps not wrecking
- YouTube, Matt Damon Takes the ALSA Ice Bucket Challenge
Labor and Labor Day
- Tim Taylor, The Origins of Labor Day
- Justin Fox, What Unions No Longer Do
- Jonathan Cohn, Happy Labor Day. Are Unions Dead?
- NY Times Editorial Board, Wages and Salaries Still Lag as Corporate Profits Surge
- David Streitfeld, Silicon Valley Fights Order to Pay Bigger Settlement in Hiring Case
- Jared Bernstein, On Labor Day, a call for courage
- Thomas Kochan, What the Market Basket Struggle Means for Labor
- Bob Kuttner, The Snake in the Market Basket: Can the Company Recover From Employee Revolt Without Loading Up With Debt?
Climate Change
- Jeff Spross, The Earth’s Soils Could Contribute More To Climate Change Than Previously Thought
- Joe Romm, 6 Ways The Washington Post Could Show It’s Serious About Climate Change
- Emily Atkin, New York To West Virginia: Stop Trying To Kill EPA’s Carbon Rule
Politics
- Charlie Pierce, Empire Burlesque [Ed.: On Andrew Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, and the NY Governor’s and Lt. Gov’s races.]
- NY Times Editorial Board, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ‘Disservice to Democracy’ [Ed.: Since you asked, no, I don’t care for Andrew Cuomo. Too bad Schneiderman isn’t running for Governor. He could have a decent shot at beating Cuomo.]
- Matt Flegenheimer, For New York Legislators, Indictments Are No Obstacle to Seeking Re-election
- Heather Cox Richardson, Bring Back the Party of Lincoln
Health Care
- Noah Smith, Is America’s health care underperformance a myth?
- Jonathan Cohn, Obamacare Lawsuits Just Suffered a Big Setback
- Sheri Fink, Cuts at W.H.O. Hurt Response to Ebola Crisis
Miscellany
- AP, Maine Turnpike drivers to get copies of Farmers’ Almanac
- Tobin Grant, Politics of American churches & religions in one graph [Ed.: Yeah, I guess I fall somewhere in that UCC-Friends-UU-agnostic trapezoid.]
- David Dishneau, ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ star [Thomas Dolby] becomes teacher