memeorandum: Understanding the decline in the labour force participation rate in the United States (VoxEU.org)

1:45 AM ET, August 19, 2014

Top Items:

County investigation: Michael Brown was shot from the front, had marijuana in his system — Michael Brown was shot in the head and chest multiple times, according to Mary Case, the St. Louis County medical examiner. — While Case declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation …

Discussion: The Other McCain, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Hit & Run, Rush Limbaugh, Gawker, his vorpal sword, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, SOOPERMEXICAN, Hinterland Gazette, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Little Green Footballs, Shakesville and Right Wing Watch

Angela J. Davis / The New Republic:

Justice for Michael Brown Rests Almost Entirely in the Hands of This One Man — The killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, by St. Louis County police officer Darren Wilson prompted massive protests in Ferguson and in cities all over the nation.

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Police Officer Pushes CNN's Don Lemon From Sidewalk — CNN reporter Don Lemon said a St. Louis County police officer pushed him away from the sidewalk where he was reporting live form Ferguson, Mo. on Monday. — During a segment on “The Situation Room,” CNN cut to Lemon as he was being corralled away from the road.

Discussion: The Raw Story

Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast: Ferguson and the Urban-Suburban Race Conflict

Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Ferguson police officer was ‘doing his job’, say supporters

Discussion: Daily Kos, Simple Justice, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, KSDK-TV, ThinkProgress, Liberaland, Talking Points Memo and Popehat

Jeff Smith / New York Times:
In Ferguson, Black Town, White Power

Discussion: Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Guardian and Eschaton

Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
Officer appears to threaten cameraman covering chaos in Ferguson

Discussion: Power Line, RedState, Guardian, NewsBusters, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and The Raw Story

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

Stark Racial Divisions in Reactions to Ferguson Police Shooting — Blacks and whites have sharply different reactions to the police shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Mo., and the protests and violence that followed. Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to say that the shooting of Michael Brown …

Discussion: Politico, Booman Tribune, Poynter, Washington Post, Hot Air and Talking Points Memo

Erick Erickson / RedState:

Ferguson Is Not Binary — The world is not a binary place. People and events can sometimes be simple and can sometimes be complicated. Simple events can have tangentially related complicated issues involved and complicated events can have tangentially related simple issues involves.

Discussion: Hit & Run and Ed Driscoll

Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:

A black president couldn't stop the Ferguson race riots — Violence continues in Ferguson, Missouri. It began on August 9 with the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager cut down by a white cop's bullets. Peaceful demonstrations turned into looting …

Discussion: Vox, Hot Air and RedState

Fred Siegel / City Journal:
A Grotesque Pantomime of Repression and Redemption

Discussion: Ed Driscoll

Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
A Movement Grows in Ferguson

Discussion: Colorlines, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog

Missouri Governor's Office / Governor Jay Nixon:
Statement from Gov. Nixon regarding the ongoing situation in Ferguson and role of National Guard

Discussion: Politico, Gawker, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller and National Review

Washington Post:

Full Transcript: Obama's remarks on Ferguson, Mo. and Iraq — A fulltranscript of the remarks President Obama delivered on Iraq and the situation in Ferguson, Mo. on August 18. — OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. — Earlier today, I received an update from my team on two separate issues …

Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Signal and The PJ Tatler

BBC:

Iraq crisis: Mosul dam recaptured from militants - Obama — Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Iraqi troops have retaken Mosul dam from Islamic State (IS) militants, US President Barack Obama has said. — Mr Obama said the US helped in the operation. Air strikes targeted IS around the dam, Iraq's largest.

Discussion: New York Times and The Moderate Voice

Tim Hanrahan / Wall Street Journal:

Transcript: Obama's Remarks Monday on Ferguson and Iraq — President Barack Obama said in remarks from the White House that Attorney General Eric Holder would travel to Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday, and he called on members of the community to seek understanding rather than “holler” at each other.

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo: Watch President Obama Speak On Iraq And Ferguson At 4 P.M. ET

The Huffington Post:

Why Rick Perry Will Be Convicted — If the court of public opinion has an impact on a jury's decisions, Texas Governor Rick Perry may have a chance of beating his indictments. While poorly informed Democrats like Obama advisor David Axelrod call the indictments “sketchy,” …

Discussion: The Week

Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Charges Against Rick Perry Are Thin. But They Are Also Clarifying.

Discussion: Slate, Politico, Associated Press, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, RedState, Hit & Run, Democracy in America, The Dish, The Week, The Daily Caller, Booman Tribune, Conservatives4Palin, Betsy's Page, Washington Monthly, Althouse and National Review

Errol Louis / CNN:
Opinion: Is Rick Perry sunk for 2016?

Discussion: Bloomberg View

John Fund / National Review:
The Perry Indictment's Predecessor

Discussion: Clash Daily, The PJ Tatler, RedState and Guardian

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Why We Fight Wars — A century has passed since the start of World War I, which many people at the time declared was “the war to end all wars.” Unfortunately, wars just kept happening. And with the headlines from Ukraine getting scarier by the day, this seems like a good time to ask why.

Discussion: Consortiumnews.com, Let's Try Democracy, Hit & Run and Washington Monthly

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

No, the Founders Were Not Tea Partiers — A 200-year-old lie. — Shares … A longstanding conceit of conservative thought, which has returned with new force during the Obama years, is that conservatism is the authentic heir to the vision of the Founders.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:

EXCLUSIVE: Obama Will Personally Chair U.N. Security Council Meeting — President Barack Obama chairs a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in 2009 — President Barack Obama will preside over a meeting of the United Nations Security Council during his attendance …

Discussion: Hot Air and Politico

Politico:

Exclusive: White House meets with big biz on immigration — Senior White House officials are in talks with business leaders that could expand the executive actions President Barack Obama takes on immigration. — Obama was initially expected to focus only on slowing deportations …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Caller and National Review

Joby Warrick / Washington Post:

West's historic drought stokes fears of water crisis — WILLOWS, Calif. — When the winter rains failed to arrive in this Sacramento Valley town for the third straight year, farmers tightened their belts and looked to the reservoirs in the nearby hills to keep them in water through the growing season.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

VoxEU.org:

Understanding the decline in the labour force participation rate in the United States — The labour force participation rate in the US has fallen dramatically since 2007. This column traces this decline to three main factors: the ageing of the population, cyclical effects from the Great Recession …

Discussion: Washington Center … and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality