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