Links of the Week - 23 September 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Someone made a map of the world’s wind. It’s weirdly fun to play around with.
German Lopez

Revisionist History: My Little Hundred Million
Malcolm Gladwell

Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media
Matthew Yglesias

The bogus claims of the NRA's favorite social scientist, debunked
Evan DeFilippis & Devin Hughes

Don't Be Scared of a Health-Insurance Public Option
Noah Smith

This food bank doesn’t want your junk food. Good.
Julia Belluz

Red tape at the FDA doesn’t explain America’s high drug prices
Sarah Kliff

Donald Trump is never going to stop being Donald Trump
Matthew Yglesias

The freedom-lover's case for the welfare state
Will Wilkinson

This conspiracy theory explains how Trump was able to take over the GOP
Matt O'Brien

Links of the Week - 16 September 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care
Sarah Kliff

Breitbart, explained: the conservative media giant that wants Trump to burn down the GOP
Zach Beauchamp

This Princeton health economist thinks Obamacare’s marketplaces are doomed
Sarah Kliff

EpiPen is trying to win over critics by issuing "coupons." Don't be fooled.
Sarah Kliff

When workers don’t get paid sick days, everyone else is more likely to get sick
Danielle Paquette

Americans are supposed to turn to police after a murder. In black communities, they often can't.
German Lopez

Two out of three ain’t bad
The Economist

Olympians Don’t Need a Tax Break
Adam Chodorow

The Greatest Presidential Comebacks
Josh Zeitz

When Poll-Watching Crosses the Line
Jocelyn Benson

Links of the Week - 9 September 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

The media vs. Donald Trump: why the press feels so free to criticize the Republican nominee
Ezra Klein

The stuff we really need is getting more expensive. Other stuff is getting cheaper.
Christopher Ingraham

Donald Trump’s strange speaking style, as explained by linguists
Tara Golshan

There's a simple fix for Obamacare's current woes: the public option
Jacob Hacker

Film Room: New England Defense
Cian Fahey

Being an Ideologue Means Never Having to Say You're Wrong
Noah Smith

Prison breakthrough
The Economist

A focus on shareholder value for long-term shareholders
Scott Tong

How the Democrats Are Failing Obamacare
Jim Newell

Free-market ideology: a reply to some replies
Noah Smith

Links of the Week - 2 September 2016

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed

Job volatility among races
The FRED Blog

Where does the buck stop?
The Economist

Trump’s “Obama founded ISIS” comments are outrageous. They’re also deeply ignorant.
Zach Beauchamp

When fiscal policy lags, the one-two fiscal/monetary punch doesn’t land
Jared Bernstein

All of a Sudden, Economists Are Getting Real Jobs
Noah Smith

Why I don’t think it makes sense to attribute Trump’s support to economic anxiety
Matthew Yglesias

Sean Hannity called a columnist an asshole. What happened next explains Donald Trump.
Zach Beauchamp

What's Useful about DSGE Models?
George Evans

It’s time to accept that Donald Trump is never going to learn basic stuff about the world
Zach Beauchamp

Donald Trump's once-masterful "attention at any cost" strategy has turned into a disaster

Matthew Yglesias