Links of the Week - 25 December 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


One depressing quote perfectly sums up our relationship with gun violence
The Economist, via Christopher Ingraham

America’s biggest housing program is run by the IRS, and it’s a huge giveaway to rich people
Dylan Matthews

The Price We Pay for Liberty?
Mark Joseph Stern

"This is a political choice we make"
Ezra Klein

Why the U.S. should pay Irish drug prices if Pfizer wants to pay Irish tax rates
Dr. Peter B. Bach

No, you don’t have an absolute right to own guns
Emily Badger

A telling — and disturbing — anecdote about conservative media from a House Republican
Matthew Yglesias

This one anecdote perfectly explains today’s GOP
Greg Sargent

The Passive-Aggressive Monetary Two-Step
Paul Krugman

The Second Amendment Is Not Absolute
Sonja West

Links of the Week - 18 December 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Why the media struggles to deal with Donald Trump’s race-baiting
Paul Waldman

Japanese promises (a reply to John Cochrane)
Noah Smith

Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Ethics
Jonathan Wight

The segregation-era travel guide that saved black Americans from having to sleep in their cars
Dara Lind

This 2002 PBS debate over the Iraq War is both weirdly prescient and totally bonkers
Dylan Matthews

Thanksgiving, 1963
Josh Zeitz

Why Wall Street's campaign to enrich shareholders could be bad for everyone else
Timothy B. Lee

Obamacare’s biggest political problem: the people it helps don’t vote, but its critics do
Ezra Klein

Avars, Arabs, and History
Paul Krugman

The real-life election of 1800 was even wilder than Hamilton the musical lets on
Andrew Prokop

Links of the Week - 11 December 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


27 hilariously bad maps that explain nothing
Max Fisher

This chart shows something's gone wrong with the US housing market
Matthew Yglesias

Tax the (upper) middle class, please
Mark Schmitt

Take a Tour of Battlefields, Protests, and Prisons With These Photography Legends
Mark Murrmann

What is the “natural rate” for u6?
Jared Bernstein

Ordinary Americans can show Congress how to save the U.S. Postal Service
Steven Kull

ISIS, a history: how the world's worst terror group came to be
Zack Beauchamp

You’re more likely to be fatally crushed by furniture than killed by a terrorist
Andrew Shaver

Why Gronk can't be stopped
Matt Bowen

Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero. [video]
Johnny Harris and Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 4 December 2015

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


6 reasons not to worry about Russia invading the Baltics
Robert Person

Bitcoin and central banking
David Andolfatto

The Hidden Hardline Side of George H.W. Bush
Jon Meacham

The Faces of the Spymasters
David Hume Kennerly

Stunning photos show what America looked like during the Great Depression
Ana Swanson

‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’
Chris Whipple

There's a big problem with Ted Cruz's position on legal immigration
Timothy B. Lee

Models of the minimum wage (for what they’re worth)
Jared Bernstein

Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place
Christopher Ingraham

The awfulness of daylight saving time, mapped
Brian Resnick