Each day, I get an array of emails in my In-Box offering up articles, what they think can be interesting reads, or junk. Some are hawking subscriptions too. I like to subscribe to news letters and magazines. The problem being, I never get a chance to finish reading them all.

• SCOTUS Billionaire Gifts to Thomas: Generosity or Taxable Income? levernews.com, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton, Katya Swank.
• Court conflicted over Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that shields Sacklers from liability, SCOTUSblog, Amy Howe.
• Economic Increasing Deficit Can Be Traced to GOP Tax Cuts, Americans For Tax Fairness, Press Release.
• U.S. Billionaires Now Worth a Record $5.2 Trillion, Americans For Tax Fairness, Press Release.
• The Pernicious Myth of Meritocracy (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 5, Robert Reich.
• November Core-Cast Post-PCE: What Made the Fed Dovish a Week Ago Becomes More Visible to The Public, employ america, Skanda Amarnath.
• I Live in a Hotel Full Time and It’s Cheaper Than Renting, businessinsider.com, Daniel George.
• The Democrats’ Grocery-Store Problem, The Atlantic, Gilad Edelman.
• US antitrust enforcers release final version of new merger guidelines, Reuters.

• The University of Phoenixification of Elite Education, The American Prospect, Maureen Tkacik.
• Can colleges afford class-based affirmative action? Brookings, Philip Levine and Sarah Reber.
• Student Debt Relief’s Narrow Path, The American Prospect, David Dayen.
• Why Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to college graduates still matters today, theconversation.com, Susan Farrell.
• The Fate of the West’s Water Crisis Rests With a 27-Year-Old, POLITICO, Annie Snider.
• The Growing Debt Burdens of Global South Countries: Standing in the Way of Climate and Development Goals – Center for Economic and Policy Research, Ivana Vasic-Lalovic and Lara Merling.
• Counter Intelligence: Australia bans engineered stone, Carbon Upfront! Lloyd Alter.
• Archaeological Excavation Rewrites Roman Empire History, popularmechanics.com, Tim Newcomb.
• Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker, KFF.
• Three Million Fewer Children in the U.S. are Covered by Medicaid: CHIP Enrollment Isn’t Growing Much, Center For Children and Families, Joan Alker.
• Record number of Americans have signed up for Obamacare this year, HHS says, ABC News, Mary Kekatos.