I queued this up for a post a few days ago.

• Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America (Institute for New Economic Thinking) on the Koch’s favorite economist, James Buchanan, “His philosophy is so stark that even young libertarian acolytes are only introduced to it after they have accepted the relatively sunny perspective of Ayn Rand. (Yes, you read that correctly).”
• John McCain & The Uniparty’s Funeral For Itself (Alpha News) A welcome antidote to the hagiography,”McCain’s political career was one disgrace after another, one betrayal of what he told his Arizona constituents that he would do followed by another.”
• Good News! New Jersey Trashes VAM! (Diane Ravitch) New Jersey has lowered test scores from 30% to 5% of teacher evaluations, which should reduce the teaching to the test bullsh%$.
• The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring (National Bureau of Economic Research Spoiler, no effect, but, on the brighter side, you get another highly paid do-nothing administrator.
• How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent (The New Republic) The story of Bayh-Dole and the privatization of public publicly funded research.
• Alleged Lobster Embezzlement Is Most New England Crime Ever (Grub Street) No comment necessary.

If only the Australian Government were so honest: