Links of the Week - 25 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

This might be Ted Cruz’s worst idea
Matt O'Brien

For the love of God, rich people, stop giving Stanford money
Dylan Matthews

Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up
Barry Ritholtz

Donald Trump's candidacy is going to realign the political parties
Lee Drutman

Ted Cruz Is Stuck in the 1980s
Reihan Salam

The eerie math that could predict terrorist attacks
Ana Swanson

Obamacare didn’t pave the way for Donald Trump. The GOP’s response to it did.
Ezra Klein

The Axe Files: Eliot Spitzer [audio]
David Axelrod

Truer Costs of Trade Liberalization
Jonathan Wight

How Bernie Sanders convinced me about free college
Matthew Yglesias

“The greatest human right of all”: why Australia’s former leader confiscated 650,000 guns
Libby Nelson

Return of the Undeserving Poor
Paul Krugman

Donald Trump is making conservatives turn on the white working class
Matthew Yglesias

The Craziest Conventions in U.S. History
Josh Zeitz

Donald Trump’s rise is the financial crisis of politics
Lee Drutman

Links of the Week - 18 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq
Max Fisher

The Fed’s interest payments to banks
Ben S. Bernanke and Donald Kohn

Who will Obama nominate to replace Scalia? Here’s how to think about it.
Michael Bailey

The Tragedy of Antonin Scalia
Eric Posner

This Is the Dirtiest Presidential Race Since ’72
Joseph Cummins

Moderate Democrats helped Wall Street avoid regulation in the '90s. They're doing it again.
Mike Konczal

How the world’s great oil powers became so powerless
Chico Harlan

Why are the deaths of sitting Supreme Court justices so rare?
Scott Boddery

I dare you to read this and still feel good about tipping
Roberto A. Ferdman

The Book That Changed Campaigns Forever
Scott Porch

It’s Long Past Time to Close Guantánamo
Fred Kaplan

A comment on the Labor Force Participation Rate
Bill McBride

America’s two ur-choropleths
Kieran Healy

Important new findings on inflation and unemployment from the new ERP
Jared Bernstein

Let's not get nostalgic about Jeb Bush
Matthew Yglesias

Links of the Week - 11 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Is it time to rethink recycling?
Amy Westervelt

The Ideal Subway Seating Arrangement? No Middle Seats
Keith Barry

How the United States built a welfare state for the wealthy
John Sides

Let’s get rid of drive-throughs
Emily Badger

The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich
Emily Badger

Why Liberals Loved to Hate Antonin Scalia
Dahlia Lithwick

Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Lawrence H. Summers
Heather Boushey

Disabled people are allowed to work for pennies per hour — but maybe not for much longer
Lydia DePillis

Why it’s time to get serious about Supreme Court term limits
Christopher Ingraham

What happens when a Supreme Court justice dies in an election year? Nobody really knows.
Max Ehrenfreund

Republicans might end up wishing they had compromised with Obama over Scalia’s replacement
Ezra Klein

John Oliver's glorious takedown of voter ID laws
via German Lopez

The Whale That Nearly Drowned The Donald
Michael Crowley

The Next Justice? It’s Not Up to Us
Garry Wills

North Carolina is the latest state to find welfare recipients rarely use illegal drugs
Victoria M. Massie

Links of the Week - 4 March 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The sneaky language today's politicians use to get away with racism and sexism
German Lopez

6 degrees of separation is too much — Facebook says we're all 3.5 degrees apart
Libby Nelson

Donald Trump really did try to take an elderly widow's house for a limousine parking lot
Timothy B. Lee

In Defense of Funny Diagrams (Wonkish)
Paul Krugman

The rise of humankind, in one mesmerizing map
Ana Swanson

What Republicans and Bernie Sanders get wrong about Wall Street
Matt O'Brien

What Hillary Clinton should say — but can’t — about her Wall Street speaking fees
Paul Waldman

Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President
Eric Posner

Flint Wasn’t Allowed Democracy
Richard Schragger

Yes, the cyclicalists really won the bet
Noah Smith

The risk of an unintended war with Russia in Europe, explained in one map
Max Fisher

Bernie Sanders is right: Hillary Clinton praising Henry Kissinger is outrageous
Zack Beauchamp

Antonin Scalia's death makes the 2016 presidential election a referendum on the Supreme Court
Dylan Matthews

Replacing Antonin Scalia will be a profound test of the American political system

Ezra Klein

The most radical thing the Black Panthers did was give kids free breakfast

Victoria M. Massie