Links of the Week - 26 February 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

"They are riding a tiger that they cannot control”: Pakistan and the future of Afghanistan

Jennifer Williams

The Fox News debate showed how Republicans created the Trump problem now destroying them

Max Fisher

The GOP Candidates Are Shockingly Uninformed About Foreign Policy

Fred Kaplan

America’s Long History of Trashing ‘New York Values’
Kevin Baker

I'm from New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire primary has to go
Dylan Matthews

Freedom: Three Varieties and a Caveat
Peter Dorman

Apple may owe Ireland $19 billion, but Ireland doesn’t want the money. Here’s why.
Henry Farrell

The unique power of poverty to turn young boys into jobless men
Emily Badger & Christopher Ingraham

Four shades of inflation risk
The FRED Blog

Iowa As A Media Focal Point
Paul Krugman

Amazon is reportedly planning to open hundreds of bookstores. Here's why.
Matthew Yglesias

Economists say houses are a bad investment. Here's why they're wrong.
Timothy B. Lee

How Trump Did It
Eli Stokols & Ben Schrekinger

The Iowa caucuses give white people outsized power over the presidency
Dylan Matthews

Paul Ryan to Tea Party: You are the problem
Paul Waldman

Links of the Week - 19 February 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

What do you give executives who bankrupted a coal company and screwed over its retirees? Bonuses!
David Roberts

When Ted Cruz Wanted to Be Part of the Establishment
Shane Goldmacher & Daniel Lippman

Potemkin Ideologies
Paul Krugman

The Republican establishment can fix its problems by picking a name out of a hat
Joshua Tucker

Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism

Ezra Klein

The Constitution was designed to weed out demagogues. Now it encourages them.

Andrew Sabl

Could Americans elect a non-religious president? Bernie Sanders wants to find out.

Paul Waldman

The unsexy truth about why the Arab Spring failed
Amanda Taub

“The dam is about to break”: why 2016 could be a very bad year for Afghanistan
Zack Beauchamp

ISIS is getting stronger in Afghanistan: how it happened and why it matters
Jennifer Williams

Links of the Week - 12 February 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Why we fight about Iran
Max Fisher

Department of Labor sends warning shot to clients of temp staffing agencies
Lydia DePiliis

Why the poor do better on these simple tests of financial common sense
Max Ehrenfreund

There's one huge problem with National Review's anti-Trump editorial
Matthew Yglesias

Hillary Clinton faces the same challenge that George H.W. Bush faced in 1988
Jonathan M. Ladd

A Progressive Way to End Corporate Taxes
Dean Baker

How to Talk to Bill Belichick

Andrew Kahn and Josh Levin

Vladimir Putin is not in charge of Syria, never has been, and never will be
Max Fisher

City Upon A Hill: A History Of American Exceptionalism [audio]
BackStory

Book Review: "Economics Rules"
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 5 February 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard
Harold Pollack

Bill O’Reilly will flee to Ireland if Sanders is elected. He’s in for a shock
Henry Farrell

TINA and the ACA
Paul Krugman

Obama’s Republican Foreign Policy Critics Don’t Understand How the World Works
Fred Kaplan

Die Hard Conservatives
Paul Krugman

Bank Failures by Year
Bill McBride

Lessons From Vermont
Paul Krugman

America’s emptiest places: 42% of the land, 1% of the people
Christopher Ingraham

The Theory of Everything and Then Some
David Auerbach

101ism
Noah Smith